Originally posted on the Team 8 forum in http://team8.co.uk/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1713

Because some people care...

Skills, bought as normal
Stats bought as normal
Adds-Disads bought as normal

However, not everyone is grown, slopped out of a vat or a syphalitic downtown uterus equal so lets firm things up.
Its all well and good to impose 'role playing' challenges on people playing non-humans in a human dominated society but frankly, it really doesnt even the score to begin with.

So say I decide to make myself a Brainwaster rather than a human for whatever sexual inadequacy or mental malfunction I have that the time, just a plain reason to be a munchkin or feel like being an anti social fuckwit.

Lets have a look at Mr Waster in the book.

He has Physically on base starting stats of 5.
So no points cost there.
He has the potential to get to STR 11, so that costs us +2 points
No real natural attacks aside from dressing like an 80's cock rocker and body odour so no points to spend there.

Mentally, he's a disfunctional cunt like most wasters but on paper he has the potential to reach-
Cool 11 so that costs 2pts
Conc 11 so that costs 2pts
But lookout, he's only got a max charisma of 8 so we knock -4 points off and back to 0 on the mental bits...
Whoa! Lookout Ebb stuff, unless I wanted to make him a social outcast even amongst the leperous society that is wasters better take this!
Ebb use, costs 30

Background skills,
Seems to have the standard 4 x Rank 1 and 2 x Rank 2
If you had a special background planned for him you could ask the GM for some special dispensation too get Flower Arranging at say Rank 1 because he was the son of a florist, or even Sodomy at Rank 2 if he was a part of the church... but I digress.
total points cost there-
2 x 3pts = 6pts
4 x 1pt = 4pts

Movement Rates, No change there as he's a 1W-2R-3S animal so no points cost.

GM says, alright make up 300pt munchkins.
From the start I will have to spend -42 points out of my starting 300.
Character generation will start bidding at 258 points where I will buy my stats, skills, adds/disads and all the usual stuff.

Had I been a human, I'd do that too, but I only have to spend 10pts on my starting 300pt allowance and end up with 290 to start the build with.

Lets have a go at building everyones stock thrashing machine, the 313 stormer.

Physically, Stormers are nice and big.
All base stats starting at 5, no points there.
His potential for lifting heavy objects is real good though.
Potential STR of 15, cost me 10pts
Potential DEX of 13, cost me 6pts
Can he grow back, you'd want to hope so looking that ugly so thats costing me 20pts
He has claws, so that costs me 5pts
Those claws also do +1PEN costs 3pts
Nothing else there and moving right along...

Mental, because stormers are.
Couple of Mental stats are going to be sub10 racial maximum
DIA, CONC and CHAR are all going to be capped at 8, so that will net us +12pts back
He isnt afraid of nothing, potential COOL of 15 so thats going to cost 10pts

Background skills, he's got the standard there everyone in the MRB has.
total points cost there-
2 x 3pts = 6pts
4 x 1pt = 4pts

Movement Rate, stormers r' fast n' stuff.
Base Walk of 1, no points cost
Base Run of 3, going to cost 3pts
Base Sprint of 4 going to cost 5pts

Adding him all up, total cost of his bits is going to be= 60pts
So Mr Stormer in a 300pt game has to spend 60pts on being a stormer, leaving him with 240 from which to buy his Stats, skills and so forth.