Brawler Archive

Ok, I have a couple of charcters who go out and fight, but right now I am concentrating on making a petty much city bound crafter. The thing is, he will still need to go out to his harvesters and factory. So I am trying to pick a weapon for him.

I know, that most people just naturally pick up pistol. My thought is, a ranged weapon is fine if you are going out, looking for a fight. With this guy, the only fights he will get in to is when he is jumped. This means close range. I know with a pistol, you can use point blank single or point blank area to minimize or eliminate the melee penalties for having a ranged weapon in hand, but my thought was, if you are only expecting to fight at close range then why carry a ranged weapon at all.

One of my fighters has moved through pikeman, and swordsman in the brawler profession. Another has gone through unarmed. I know that unarmed gets good once you hit TKA novice, but I probably won't go that high. Between the 2 handed curved sword I have used seem to be much better than my lance, so right now that would be my choice of self defence weapons. I have never tried any of the fencing branch.

Any suggestions if deciding between fencing and sworsman, if you were never going to advance beyond the brawler skills? With either of these weapons, I think it would be a good idea to at least get stun from the unarmed branch. What do you all think?

Thanks.