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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wilphe" data-source="post: 1053569" data-attributes="member: 8221">GWolf:Ok, I do like that background. Where I have the problems is:1) I'm quite happy for him to have the Katana skill, I have problems with him carrying one everywhere and it being his weapon of choice in every possible situation. 2) Its now a year into the war, he's of the right age in be conscripted and he has only a few points of military skills.3) 1930's Japan is not a great place for foreigners, but as they were living in an isolated  fishing village that's not a problem.4) Arguably the Samurai ethic is incompatible with stealth.Suggestion, make him a more broadly focused martial arts and close combat guy. Maybe take a full MA or two style (eg: Jujitsu and Kenjutsu together or possibly Judo or Karate. Knife might be useful also.Then state that he's spent the last year training others, especially agents in those sort of close fighting techniques and is now going on ops.That gives him a good reason to be there and a degree of flexibility.This is then quite close to the backgrounds of people like:William Fairbairn and Eric Sykes who were the RL trainers for Commandos & SOE, and in game terms aguably invented Military Hand-to-hand (certainly the British version)Douane:Looks good so far , I'll get back to you when I get back from work.Macbeth:Yep, that's exactly what I meant.</blockquote>