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From: Wraith <wraith@************.COM>
Subject: Re: Character Questions
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:36:34 -0500
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark L. Neidengard <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
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>
>[munch]
>>If you're wondering about his weapons/self-defense skills..right now he
has
>>a very low firearms skill, so he's more likely to shoot himself in the
foot
>>or something, rather than hitting what he thinks he's aiming at. Although
>>I'm thinking of maybe changing that to either Armed or Unarmed combat,
since
>>that's what he's more likely to have picked up in his life.
>
>Given his mother's occupation, likely employers, and tendencies to withdraw
>when threatened, I'd expect that if anything he'd have some knife skill. A
gun
>can't be practiced just anywhere without attracting attention and is
probably
>a bit more violent than this character would prefer. From my standpoint,
>of course. =)


Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I created this character on
paper..looked at it for a minute, decided he needed some sort of combat
skill, put down firearms, and then sat staring at it for a few more minutes
going..."Hmm, a knife would be so much better..."

Wraith

BTW-Lodoss War? Isn't that an Anime movie or something?

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