Sample character, is this any good? Options

[Glyph]

If you're thinking about a pit-fighter type character (by which I am assuming you mean someone who fights in quasi-legal mixed martial arts tournaments or street fights), then you either want someone heavily cybered or an adept. Also, trolls are the best for it, although being naturally tilted towards certain skill sets makes them limited in other ways. Orks and dwarves are also good. All three can start out with higher Body and Strength, before you even start adding powers and enhancements.

An adept is really the best way to go, because for melee combat, you are comparing your successes with your opponent's. Initiative is not very important to a melee character. You can attack someone and take damage, or they can attack you and wind up taking damage. Adepts have the Improved Ability power, which lets them get up to 6 extra dice in certain skills. If you are rolling 6 more dice than someone else, then they can be tougher and capable of doing more damage, and they will still lose. Adepts also have access to powers such as Killing Hands (making their fists lethal weapons that can even affect spirits) or Mystic Armor (giving them natural impact armor).

Cybered characters are not as good at this - they make great generalists, but are not as good at single specialized roles. But you can still make a passable pit-fighter. Take Dermal Sheath: 3 and Ceramic Bone Lacing, and you have someone who does more damage with his fists, has +4 Body, and has 4 extra points of Impact armor. You can add things like a shock hand (to do electrical stun damage in addition to a punch), or Muscle Replacement to make you punches hit harder and to boost your Combat Pool. If your GM allows bioware, you can get enhanced articulation and a reflex recorder to add more combat dice, and muscle toner/augmentation or a suprathyroid gland to make yourself tougher. There are lot of little cyber-goodies a cybered pit fighter could take.


If you do make a pit fighter, though, make sure he's not too specialized. Give him at least one ranged skill, and be sure you have the basic skills (stealth, etiquette, athletics).

[toturi]

[simonw2000]

[Crimson Jack]

And counter strike is an awesome combo with a high unarmed combat skill. Max out on counter strike and goad people into attacking you. Give yourself a moderate killing hands and you've got a punch that'll sting for days.

[k1tsune]

Allow me to say once again that (don't click, players-mine)

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Initiated Twisted Adepts are a beautiful thing to dump on an unsuspecting party.

[Fortune]