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EDIT: I went and read the fight and Sok knocked it off of her like it was nothing. Damn she could of kept it as a memento.

Throwing Tomahawks makes a really cool image in my mind. In Black Ops 2 it was my favorite weapon because I would go:

"YOU JUST GOT HAWKED!"

but anyway, throwing an axe at someone is just bad a**.

Tres usually couples his throwing weapons with a sleight of hand trick to kind of obscure the telegraph somewhat. However with it being a physical ability it is circumstantial and can only do so much depending on how I actually use the physical skill.

I kind of want Tres to just start manifesting Tomahawks and chucking them at people but I feel like It would be ripping off of Deitric too much.

Huh. Weird, work wants me in at 5 so I got a good window to post.

But far as throwing weapons go, they run into a few issues where they're either "yeah ******** you, take it" or "hawhawhaw, [flexes pecks] gone." with little between.

Like casting aside the actual make of the weapon or anything, you have to deal with ammunition. E.G. the quantity of your throwing weapons. Either you have a ton and they're typically reduced to pepper-shots, or only a few and then you run into s**t like Darth and his tomahawks above.

IMO, throwing weapons are actually awesome for these kinds of venues, you just have to adapt them. Needles tend to do pretty well. And I'd imagine a throwing weapon that can be manipulated by a gauntlet, which is enchanted in that it deals damage on-touch rather than actually requiring a blade to hit home, would do very nicely.

It's no different than firearms. They have tons of issues in roleplay like this, but you can adapt them to work fine.

Tres pretty much covered my response to your follow-up.

I do agree with what you mentioned about roleplaying. Well put.

It's just that these tournaments fall in this weird gap between a competition (fighting) and cooperation (RP).

If you're looking at either aspect purely, that changes what is or is not acceptable.

From a pure RP standpoint, it makes sense for your character to avoid close engagements as much as possible, even stumbling over himself to maintain distance. From a purely competitive standpoint, it also makes sense (and it would be arguably easy) to maintain the same optimal distance as a sword user.

But as Tres points out, that's where things break down in this weird hybrid that is a tournament RP. And it's all taken from experience being in these tournaments of what tends to work best. Not that it's the best solution, right, or wrong. But we know the alternative extremes don't necessarily work, at least for a wider appeal.

So to use a meme, if you go into these tournaments for pure sport (competition) or pure story (RP), you're gonna have a bad time.

Besides all that, I did like your own solution, to bash 'em with the pommel. Simple and stylish, and not what a lot of opponents would expect from a sword user. I think that's a very good counter for these kinds of tournaments.

But that and all my preceding comments are purely my opinion from my own experiences.

Edit: Wow I don't even have to separately reply to Sigil. That was just entirely too convenient!

This is somewhat true and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Though I don't think that is necessarily where the point of contention lies between you and your particular circumstance. I think you were set up to fail because your character, as it is, should have never made it in based on what both the players and the officials have gathered about it.

Another thing about profiles is that in my personal opinion it is better for them to be long and to have exhaustive detail to clarify what they can and cannot do.

The least amount of assumptions a judge or even a reader has to make about the canonical limitations of a particular character ability the better.

Anyway, I'm done discussing the matter as the inevitable result will simply be further headache for me.

Feel free to rejoice, etc. I'm off to get some Advil.

The end is nigh.