Tales of the Jewel

I'll let us continue on Discord them, other than minor points! 1) I'm pretty sure throwing knives uses Agility per RAW. I think it's in one of those damned boxes somewhere, can look for it later XD 2) I agree you're not a 'good' Courtier just with that - just more decent than a Courtier throwing kni...

I agree that it's kinda going off on a different topic now, although I also feel that this isn't a fair comparison either as just having 3 awareness and 3 courtier (taking 18 xp away from combat skills) doesn't make you any better in court than having 3 agility (useful for perform skills out of com...

This goes off-topic a bit so I suggest taking it up elsewhere later (Discord?), but exactly because being combat-effecrive already needs so many things I believe giving courtiers "something" to do isn't too much. They still won't be particularly good by being able to throw things. They'll need Agili...

Affer going through 3 or 4 other builds, I ended up deciding to replay Faruq in a random dice throw... but I do think it was the right choice, even if it wasn't really my choice XD Less things related to his past and issues this game and I ended up not interacting that much with others, although I s...

I was talking to Nicha about a similar thing another day. Not quite the same issue, but I think it comes into play here. It's generally much easier for a Bushi to pick up Courtier and Etiquette and be decent out of combat than for a Courtier to be decent in combat. For a number of reasons - traits/r...

My main issue with another skill is bloating. I already feel 4e has a bit more skills than it needs. Also doesn't help that some weapon skills (and weapons) are quite bad. Like... when was the last time someone's done a chain weapons specialist? Or even Polearm, which is not that bad (that said - LB...

Right. That might be a point to keep in mind then, as they can be 4k2 weapons.

Although it would mean throwing a 5 copper weapon that you can't wield in melee...

Hm... Well, another 0k2 thrown weapon then. Like slings.

Can they be carried freely?

I think it comes down to giving diplomats, sahirr, and other generally non-combatant people an option (more like a comforting blanket) that they TOO, can do something in combat. Which is throwing an 1k1 weapon using a non-weapon skill, which gives no mastery benefits. I mean....knives are bad. IF y...

But if you attack throwing a knife at close range you are "shooting into melee" all the same, so you'd only be able to use knifes for melee attacks with the knives skill all the same, right? Also - throwing Improvised things should be Athletics, really. Using Improvised Weapons to hit someone in mel...