Not with methane! Methane's properties include pretty much everything that fire-breathers avoid (fairly explosive, extremely high burn temperature, extremely low flash point). Not all fuels are the same!

~J

Reminds me of the Darwin Award where the farmer, after watching a documentary, promptly went and set is cow's ass on fire. The cow blew up and killed the farmer. Never underestimate the power of the cow's fart.

I would imagine there's more variation in fire breathing than there is in sword swallowing.

But on the note of "Moon-Hawk is a fire-breather", . That's cool. I've seen Nat Geo specials (or some channel) on it, but it was a long time ago and my memory of it has gotten fuzzy.

So could you walk us through your method? Maybe give us some of the background stuff too, like feeling, force of exhalation, etc? Actually, as I post this I see that you've expounded a bit, but MORE!

(Oh, and I can speak from experience on having my head engulfed in flame. It sucks. Thankfully, it was a very fast burning accelerant, and 100% gaseous, meaning that although my face was right in the middle of the fireball, it was too quick to set me on fire. What it did do, however, was singe off most of my eyebrows and eyelashes and the front of my hair, lightly scorch my face, and the worst part, as Moon-Hawk guessed, was that it dried my eyes out so badly that I couldn't see and couldn't blink to re-wet them. It was a good two or three minutes before my tear ducts wet them enough for me to close them. It sucked, but thankfully did no permanent damage.)

Aye, that's what I was asking. Thanks dude, that's cool.

Does the quick rinse with water really do the trick? I'd imagine you go around tasting lighter fluid regardless.

And if you don't mind, how in the world did you end up getting into fire breathing?

He first tried to do it with a more expensive 'Distant Strike', 3PP to include Fire Effect, but he couldn't convince the GM to let him 'breath' the attack. He also wanted to use the 2nd edition ruling that Adepts can emulate a spell, but nothing like that appears in 3rd edition...? What would you recommend?

Regardless, most of you guys are thinking along the 'screw the player' POV, not something we do or care to do. He just re-described it as Dragon'sBreath but using the rules for the other bio/cyber to keep it balanced. His 'natural gas' that he creates is now the same gas that a Dragon creates, since that seems natural enough.

Regarding the quick rinse. No, it doesn't do the trick at all. My mouth tastes absolutely awful afterwards. It does, however, minimize the amount of fluid that I ingest, which is the most important part.

I don't mind. I'm just not one to list background or credentials on the internet unless someone specifically asks.
I joined a theatrical combat and stunt group several years ago, and eventually made it to Journeyman rank, which is the rank after the instructor ranks where you're expected to go off and start your own school. I went off, because I was finished with my graduate work in college, but I've been too busy to even think about starting my own stage combat school.
Basically, we do combat for plays, movies, and TV. We study all forms of historical martial arts, so that we can simulate whatever is needed for the role. Not that anyone asks for it, but if someone wanted a fight that was authentic 17th century Italian sword style, I've read manuals from that period and know which moves and style would be appropriate. We focus strongly on swords, but there are varying degrees of everything, from hand-to-hand to firearms, eastern, western, whatever. We also do choreography and training. In addition to stage combat, we also do a fair amount of stunt work, so I'm trained in high-falls (I don't do above 30 feet, because beyond that you need some pretty expensive equipment. Also, heights make me uncomfortable. Odd, I know.), burns (get lit on fire, up to and including full-body burns), jumping through glass, lots of mat-work and general acrobatics, that sort of stuff. The fire-breathing was just one of those things I picked up along the way.

Several of our members eventually went off to hollywood to persue professional acting/stunt careers, but I do it more as a hobby. My aspirations lie in different directions. Currently I do brain research, but eventually I want to move on and design prosthetics and maybe work on getting a better man-machine interface.
Stage combat was just a way for me to not go insane getting my engineering degrees.
I can't honestly say that my career path was not influenced by Shadowrun in any way.
Anyway, that's why I generally chime in on threads about human neurophysiology. I try to stay out of melee combat arguments, though, just 'cause, well, you know how those threads always end up going.

Anyway, that's probably more than enough about me. I think the fire-breathing PC is cool, and you've got workable rules for it. I wouldn't bother trying to explain what the fluid is that he breathes. It's not methane, it's probably not lighter fluid, it may or may not be some kind of alcohol, just call it liquid handwavium and have fun with it.

The best options are probably the unofficial "Knack" power described here, or combining Distance Strike (MitS p149) with Delay Damage 2 (MitS p149) and Elemental Strike (SotA2064 p65), though you technically can't combine Elemental Strike with either power (but hey, working towards a theme, right?).

The latter setup requires at least 5 of your starting 6 power points to create, so I think it's hardly unbalanced (Distance + Delay 2 + Elemental + Killing = 2+2+0.5+0.5 = 5). Probably rather underpowered, even.

Distance Strike gives you range, Elemental Strike gives you the fire effect, Delay Damage 2 lets you strike without any sort of offensive motion, and Killing Hands gives you power, plus is required for Elemental. You could probably link the whole set together under some sort of geas, and make the "breath" aspect a geas as well, to reduce the cost a bit.

I think I was traumatized when I was younger by a guy who always wanted to have weird character types. The problem was that he got so into whatever his theme of the week was that he always made those characters ridiculously overpowerful.

Also, from my current perspective, I usually want some kind of strategic or tactical challenge to the game, and that usually inherently means a higher level of risk for the PCs. So my usual way of approaching character creation isn't necessarily to make a character with an enormous backstory and a highly personal twist since the character has a higher chance of dying. Instead, I usually make a character who is just a joke on some level and which doesn't take me too long to write and then start playing.