Paradigm Concepts

[Kumo]

I've got some problems (pointed by my players) with WH mechanics:

1) Fast Draw talent was clarified in errata, but what about Lightning Draw? It's said that it negates penalty from draw and attack, but no such penalty is mentioned later - drawing a weapon is just a free action. Is there some negative modifier for drawing and attacking, or is this talent just useless?

2) Is it possible to use Balanced Strikes talent from Fe en Acero fighting tradition when wielding two daggers? There is said that if both weapons are small, then each attack would suffer a -1 penalty, but there is no combination of two small weapons in choice of weapons for this tradition.

3) Why firearms are so weak? Musket's DM is +3, pistol's only +2, while all archery weapons - even a common bow - have DM +4! I understand that bows' complexity is higher, but firearms are slower and MUCH more expensive.

[CBlome]

1 & 2) There have been a lot of places where the rules simply aren't very clear or downright muddled. The fighting traditions are meant to only be used with the weapons (or combos) listed. Not sure on question 1 without a book in front of me.

3) We're talking VERY early firearms here. I believe the designers had the option to make them weaker or nearly impossible to use. Technically the difficulty of actually hitting someone at this stage of design would give them a complexity of probably closer to 10. It's a compromise. Sometimes reality does not transfer to game mechanics very well.

[Kumo]

[Hideyori]

Just my two cents but sometimes it is all about what the character would use, story/roleplaying wise, and not what is the best in game mechanical combination out there.
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