Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[Sadric]

A player in my Ripper:Bombay Lodge wishes to learn Ambidextrous.
Its a Background Edge. He has Twofisted (and Sweep), so he is a big meatgrinder. But Im Ok with it, but would like to build a short adventure around it, not only saying: OK, you get it.

So I thought about how a Ripper could learn/train the Ambidextrous Edge in Bombay 1894. It should be short, I have planed some short Character-centered adventrues for the others. Only one or two Characters in a Scene, to portray the character

I tought about a old Samurai/secret Master living somewhere in the Jungle, or in the Slums. Finding him and then a combat test "fight against my pupil to see if you are worthy!" would be the adventure.
Any other ideas?

[Wiggy]

I just force a hero to use his off-hand for several adventures to prove he is training. Yep, he gets the penalties for not being Ambidextrous, but it shows he is practising. If he makes three off-hand attacks per combat for 2-3 adventures, I deem him worthy
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Wiggy
Creative Director Triple Ace Games

[shadd4d]

Alternatively...he could fight an undead Samurai and in triumph implant some of his brain into his own in order to gain the edge...and give up some reason.

Don
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Don

"But there is a difference between fear and horror. An important difference.
Fear is when you worry about what might be.
Horror is when you are certain." Dannyboy01

[DanOrc]

So, do it the way you were originally planned. The wise retired Samurai master is on a mountaintop or somesuch (union rules). There's a helluva struggle to get there.

Once there, he assigns <quest>. Beating a worthy adversary, perhaps part of your overall plot, in single combat.

Party completes quest, trundles BACK up to mountaintop, where the wise samurai master then reveals his secret: he tells him to use his offhand attack at least three times a fight for a couple adventures, per Wiggy's idea.

Wise Samurai masters or what-have-you know the only path to power and knowledge is hard work. And they like to dash a youngster's false hopes of a quick fix to to smash arrogance and to get the apprentice into the proper mindset for actually learning something.

For extra evil laughs, describe a training-montage like sequence after the quest completion before the Master dramatically leans close and reveals the "secret."

Enjoy!
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