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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 1274392" data-attributes="member: 1964">A tracker and a brawler would be great, too.  In fact, the freed slave could just as easily be a bareknuckles boxing champ rather than a Buffalo Soldier.  And a Native American tracker would work fine.[I thought about a Chinese railroad worker as one of the iconics...a 5'2" Tough Hero 10, hard as nails...but I'm not sure it works]I'm thinking about a gambler, too.  But more Maverick than Kenny Rodgers.And maybe a fire-and-brimstone Southern Baptist preacher / Confederate vet.In the Brisco game, I think I could get away with a master of the whip [using the lasher prestige class from Sword and Fists].  One of the players played a Spanish whipmaster in my Victorian one-shot last year...sounded just like Antonio Banderas...maybe this is his Mexican cousin.I'd love to do a character who mainly threw knives, but in the iconic game I think he would just be someone who was great at knives as a byproduct of having a 20 Dexterity and Improved Initiative and Quick Draw and so forth...stuff that would carry over to a gunfight.  In the Magnificent Seven, Coburn's knifeplay was mainly to demonstrate that he was the deadliest of a deadly bunch...it wasn't something he did exclusively.In the Brisco campaign...isn't there some kind of knife-thrower class in Complete Warrior?  I think that game world would be forgiving enough to tolerate a guy who threw knives even when the shooting started.</blockquote>

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