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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 1657195" data-attributes="member: 19675">I love the concept & the background!However, I don't particularly care for the execution of it.IMHO, it would take a lot of training for someone who was such a deadly shot to retrain himself to the same level in melee.  Yes, there are military snipers with better-than-average HTH skills, but against a TRUE melee specialist...it wouldn't be much of a contest.  Additionally, given the extreme revulsion the character had after the accidental killing, it would seem that he would shun most lethal equipment...yet he's kitted out with kukri, shuriken and kusarigama?  They're not guns, but still.(I know this is a supers campaign, but using that as justification is a cop out- this guy is essentially extemely well trained, not a true super.)It would make more sense to me if he used a special firearm: a taser, a regular gun with rubber bullets, a flechette pistol with paralysis or sleep-inducing drug rounds, a gas pellet launcher, a glue gun, a sonic nausea/vertigo inducing gun, a laser dazzler, etc. (check out the show Tactical to Practical about less-than-lethal firearms).  Any such kind of firearm makes more sense than a complete change in combat style.It could even be a totally sci-fi type weapon.  Perhaps its a stun blaster, or a gun that binds miscreants with bonds of force.  A stasis gun?Were it my PC, I think I might design the PC so that he fires a grappling hook or magnetic clamp with which he disarms his opponents after which he opens the proverbial can 'o whupass on them.  Line his new costume with steel tips for his boots, steel knuckle-dusters, metal knee and elbow pads...  Perhaps he might carry a nightstick or nunchaku, but I wouldn't give him something edged or piercing- too obviously and potentially accidentally lethal.  You really have to TRY to kill someone with a blunt weapon- accidents just won't do it.  If he really must have an edged weapon, make it a tool like a high-tech ceramic diamond-edged pocket knife, not a true weapon.He would still require his former sniping ability to do the disarms, and the cable for the grappling hook could be used as an improvised garotte if he REALLY needed it.  It would also allow him to do whip tricks, do a little swinging on the cable line a la Spider-Man, etc.I would, however, keep the calling card in some form.  Probably a superglue of some kind.</blockquote>

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