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<blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 3107471" data-attributes="member: 30610">As someone who has played L5R, I strongly suggest you go and read a bunch of the fiction on the AED site - or talk to some iaido students in real life.&nbsp; That is the sort of flavor they are aiming for with that skill - the ability to make one single, perfect, deadly strike.If you just want the mechanics of it, your high Cha ought to enable you to bluff your way into melee range.&nbsp; Sure, it won't work for many situations - but that's intentional.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />As a side note, consider that AED has class ability for those of the Ronin school in their later edition Rokugan books - it's analogous to a death attack, requiring the Ronin to size you up for a round or two before using it.&nbsp; That has tremendous ramifications in terms of social posturing.&nbsp; A similar thing could be true of iaijutsu masters - people who have some idea of what they are capable of will appear paranoid when they refuse to get too close to them, thereby losing face and influencing important negotiations . . .I don't really get why you continually assert that this skill is underpowered.&nbsp; You are essentially getting a less useful version of sneak attack at no cost but skill points.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moritheil, post: 3107471, member: 30610"] As someone who has played L5R, I strongly suggest you go and read a bunch of the fiction on the AED site - or talk to some iaido students in real life. That is the sort of flavor they are aiming for with that skill - the ability to make one single, perfect, deadly strike. If you just want the mechanics of it, your high Cha ought to enable you to bluff your way into melee range. Sure, it won't work for many situations - but that's intentional. :D As a side note, consider that AED has class ability for those of the Ronin school in their later edition Rokugan books - it's analogous to a death attack, requiring the Ronin to size you up for a round or two before using it. That has tremendous ramifications in terms of social posturing. A similar thing could be true of iaijutsu masters - people who have some idea of what they are capable of will appear paranoid when they refuse to get too close to them, thereby losing face and influencing important negotiations . . . I don't really get why you continually assert that this skill is underpowered. You are essentially getting a less useful version of sneak attack at no cost but skill points. [/QUOTE]

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