Quick Draw and Iaijutsu, a rant Options

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Both of these skills do as advertised for SMGs, swords, arrows, etc. To my disappointment after carefully reading both the power and the maneuver do not grant ready weapon and throw weapon in a single simple action. You literally can only pick up only one throwing weapon and throw it in a simple action. In my mind, I thought you could ready a few throwing knives and then toss one in a simple action. You'd have to have a pretty high reaction + weapons skill to never fail the quick draw test, I was working out some numbers for it and especially iaijutsu makes the error rate pretty high. My original thoughts on quick drawing was that it'd be good because you could basically do it on the first IP of combat and repeat it every 3 IPs or so, but having to do it every simple action is asking for failure.

Random Aside: Does a specialization factor into weapon skill? For the example specializations I'd imagine shuriken when you're quick drawing shurikens and throwing knife when you're quick drawing throwing knives would be the only specializations that factor in, if they did. The other specializations under handed and over handed don't have anything to do with quick drawing, so they wouldn't apply, but it's never been crystal clear to me if you couldn't make up your own specializations. I suppose in Missions they don't allow creating your own and at other games the default answer is ask your GM...

So basically after realizing this, the krav maga specialty where you can ready weapons as a free action seems ideal, because you can arm yourself with agi/2 weapons and then each simple action until you run out of goodies you just throw. This does have a downside of not being able to use some of the more unique thrown weapons twice a turn, but it is reliable. I suppose if your reaction + weapon skill is high enough, then you can reliably attempt to quick-draw your way to victory and it does save you a free action every pass. On the other hand if you are an adept that is a specialist in thrown weapons then presumably you are counted on to to be a reliable source of damage and maybe I'm risk averse, but I can imagine choking too easily on a quick draw attempt.

Forgive me if this out of place, but I kind of wanted to rant on this because one of my pet projects was working on different forms of a throwing adept and massaging the build until it wasn't just junk at everything but throwing stuff and then I run into this mess. A discussion or new thoughts on throwing adepts would be appreciated. Also note that my realization applies to bow adepts, but those have fallen out of style.