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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 4885202" data-attributes="member: 82504">The military trains there folk to use the butt of rifles pretty much as effective as a club....nothing improvisational about it  Some Modern crossbows would be similarly useable... others wouldn't.  I would let a hero using a fantasy x bow do it as an improv just fine.. The arrow could be an effective suprise improv tool draw your blade afterwards.That said any sort of  realistic bow would be a crappy melee weapon and a waste of a good tool. (which is why I presented the idea of a fantasy "Battle Bow")I have decided to let heros all have proficiency of +2 with unarmed and improvisational attacks... just because it seems thematically correct for the kind of stories I like.Even the scientists and adventurer school marms are suprisingly nimble with non weapons and fiticuffs in the movies, were they all trained as brawlers or in the fine art of self defense as a kid ;-)R the kicker in godplate boots is probably attacking a kickee in somewhat less...that said A shin kick is an imbalancing attack designed to set up for a real one ( I used that one without the follow up and my teacher said to not use it during sparring in part because I wasn't following through just using it in nasty parrying defense stance to destroy my adversaries balance in the middle of there attack - very effective.)A groin shot is a variation of that...but its an encounter power which may give you a prone enemy (feel free to reskin sweeping attack)</blockquote>

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