Just a few questions that ended up repeatedly coming up a few times in a game I ran yesterday. Played SR3 for a while, new to SR4.
One of my players created a Gunslinger Adept heavily influenced by the movie 'Equilibrium'. He uses machine pistols for everything.
He took the Martial Arts Quality based around "Fire Fight". In Arsenal, one of the advantages to Fire Fight was lowering the penalty for Ranged Attacking in Melee. Now the questions begin.
1.) Does this mean firing into someone else's melee? Or does this mean you are attacking from a melee range.
2.) if the answer to #1 is attacking with a gun at melee range, is this considered a melee attack for purposes of determining "Friends in Melee", or does it not add +1 to the ally's dice pool?
3.) When attacking with two guns simultaneously from a range, does it still bestow a -1 penalty on the defender as it would when being attacked with two melee weapons?
The way I arbitrated it is you are able to fire in melee range for purposes of the advantage, but it didn't count toward friend in melee because you are not using a melee weapon. I also never found anywhere in the two ranged weapon rules that it caused a defender penalty for two shots simultaneously as opposed to two melee weapons...
Thanks in advance!