Mr. Fixer: DIY

Disclaimer: Yes, this is the first time I've ever written a guide. Yes, I would appreciate it if you don't completely eat me alive. And yes, I 'borrowed' Flamethrower's format (I hope you don't mind!) because I found it to be the easiest way to understand.

Enjoy *bow*

Mr. Fixer: DIY
 

Introduction

Mr. Fixer is the resident martial arts master of the multiverse (as well as a pretty good car mechanic), wielding a variety of tools in a myriad of styles to bring down the baddies. He is a mostly a support character, with some damaging options. If you want versatility, the ability to tweak things to your, and your teammate's, advantage, or you just want to be Mr. Miyagi for an hour or so, then this is the hero for you.

*Mr. Fixer may be the most controversial hero in the game; there are more posts about "fixing" Mr. Fixer than any other character. Played properly, however, Mr. Fixer has the potential to fix any situation that can come up in a game.

Attack
Mr. Fixer isn't exactly big on damage. More often than not, it's better to leave the damage dealing to your teammates and concentrate on making them more effective. But don't get me wrong: if the situation calls for it, Mr. Fixer can deal damage to take out a particularly annoying baddie, or especially to the Chairman and the Operative.

Charge and Overdrive are your typical one-shot attack card, if for a little less damage than usual. I find that I use this card to spread the love around (Charge one target, then Strike another, or Strike two targets), more than just a means to deal an extra few damage to the same target. It can, however, take out an enemy in a pinch, especially when boosted with your Tools and Styles. And while Overdrive is like a poor man's Charge (using Strike twice basically comes to a 1 damage Charge), it is special in that, if you have an Infection, or a Treasure from the Tomb of Anubis that lets you use another Power, you can play Overdrive, use the Treasure's/Infection's power, and then use Strike twice.

Harmony lets you pump up the damage, helping you try to get over the soak most Villains have. It also makes for good on-going fodder; when an environment cards makes me get rid of an on-going "or suffer the consequences", I, as a rule, choose to get rid of Harmony rather than a style card (unless, of course, I have a copy of that same Style in my hand, ready to go)

Bloody Knuckles is the definition of a double edged sword, and more often than not, I find that it hurts a lot more than it gives. Of course, if damage dealt to him is somehow reduced (Hello there, AA), or if he is allowed to use Strike out of turn (hello again, AA), then it becomes much more palatable. As a general rule, though, the Villain/Environment is able to make much more use of the +2 damage to him than Fixer is able to make use of the +2 damage he gains.

Tools and Styles
Simply put, Mr. Fixer isn't playing the same game as other heroes. As it has been mentioned before, his role is to fix situations, tweaking them a little so his teammates can take down the baddies. More often than not, Fixer has the solution for the situation somewhere in his deck. He accomplishes this by using a variety of Tools and Styles, putting them together to achieve almost ridiculous combos. It is important to note that you can only have one Tool and one Style in play, though you can trade these up (Tools go back to the hand, but Styles are outright sent to the trash)

Jack Handle: This card is good against any Villain with a lot of minions; boosted, Mr. Fixer can take them all down in one blow. This is especially ridiculous against Plague Rat (correct me if I'm wrong but) whenever you would deal damage to yourself for Infection, you deal that much irreducible damage to the Rat and anything else than might be out instead!
Use when: many minions, targets out, and you want to take them all out at once (Citizens, Relics, etc), against Plague Rat
Good with: Alternating Tiger Claw, Riveting Crane, Grease Monkey Fist

Pipe Wrench: This one is actually my "default" tool- if the situation doesn't call for anything specific, one can always use DR to keep Fixer around longer.
Use when: you want to keep Fixer alive longer, no need for any other specific tool
Good with: Driving Mantis

Hoist Chain: Useful against Spite, the Operative, The Matriarch, and the like. Reducing your opponent's damage is always useful, especially when getting ready for a big move, such as taking out all the Fowl from the board.
Use when: the opponent has revenge damage, villain likes to plink you, uses multiple instances of damage
Good with: Alternating Tiger Claw, Greased Monkey Fist

Dual Crowbars: Basically Jack Handle, except you can only hit two, and you get +1 damage. Useful if there are less minions on the board, or you want to hit only two at once.
Use when: two targets to hit, useful to punch through DR
Good with: Grease Monkey Fist

Tire Iron: For me, the least obviously useful Tool. Projectile damage is okay, and being able to take out anything with 3 or 4 life left is good (provided they don't have DR), but the situations I find this useful are few and far in between.
Use when: you want to take down something with low health (Tome of the Unknowable comes to mind), good against DR
Good with: Grease Monkey Fist, Alternating Tiger Claw

Alternating Tiger Claw: My favorite style. This lets him push all of his attacks through, no problem, letting you get at the effects immediately.
Use when: you need to push through DR to get an effect NOW.

Riveting Crane: Like ATC, but for your teammates. Especially good if you have some low damage but high frequency teammates (Fanatic and Chrono Ranger come to mind) that need to get past DR. The only problem is getting through the DR yourself, but that's where your own +1's come in.
Use when: low damage, high frequency teammates

Driving Mantis: My default style, to keep Fixer alive until he is needed. Very good with Pipe Wrench: someone hits you for 3, it gets reduced to 2, so you can throw it right back at your opponent for three. Another good one would be to use the second hit from Dual Crowbars to hit yourself, then using Driving Mantis to redirect it right back at your opponent.
Use when: default style, Villain likes to hit you for little bits of damage

Grease Monkey Fist: Very useful, especially against things with melee immunity. Imagine taking down an entire dreadnought with a pipe wrench.
Use when: you need an extra +1 damage, against immune to melee enemies

It is important to understand that you shouldn't just lay down a Style, then a Tool, and that's it for you. You should be willing to switch around, adapting to situations. Unlike other heroes, Mr. Fixer doesn't have an "Ultimate Set-up" to work towards-he works in the moment.

Utility
Fixer has two search cards. Meditation allows you to find the exact style you need, whether from the trash or the deck, effectively representing any Style in your entire deck. Tool Box gives you good drawing abilities to get at those tools. It is entirely possible with an early Tool Box to end up with half the deck in your hand.

Salvage Yard will make your fellow heroes weep with joy, especially equipment heavy heroes such as the Wraith or AZ. This one is particularly heartening after, say, a Devastating Aurora takes out everyone's hard work. Allowing you to use Overdrive in that same turn just adds icing to the cake. Unfortunately, Fixer himself has less use of the equipment recovery since his Tools go back to his hand when replaced by another Tool.

Grease Gun may be Fixer's ultimate fix: a round of relatively complete safety (barring equipment destruction) basically for free. There is no situation where this card is useless, and indeed, this card has saved my team from utter destruction many times. If there is a card for Fixer to save and reuse over and over again, it's this one.


Weaknesses
As is constantly complained about, the greatest weakness of Fixer is not having the right tools for the right job. Although he has excellent search abilities for Styles, Meditation being any style you want for free, he has no such specific search card for Tools; he relies on the drawing power of Tool Box to hunt for them. This slows down Fixer quite a bit, as there is every chance that the Tools he needs are hiding out somewhere at the bottom of his deck. In practice though, I haven't personally had a game where Mr. Fixer was absolutely useless. Sure, there may be games where he isn't functioning optimally, but Fixer will always be able to bring something to the board. You just have to do the best you can with what you have (which, I think, makes sense considering he's an auto mechanic.)

I also want to point out that Tools, unlike Styles, go back to your hand upon replacement. This lets you keep all your tools in hand, in case you need them later. You don't really have to worry about losing your tools, only getting them in the first place.

Fixes
As stated above, several Fixes have been suggested to make Fixer more palatable. One suggestion made by j1hopki1 is to change Strike to read "You may discard a card. If you do, Mr. Fixer deals one target 2 melee damage. If don't, Mr. Fixer deals one target 1 melee damage." This, by itself, makes it easier for Mr. Fixer to contribute, as well as to punch through DR for Riveting Crane, while thematically making sense: sometimes, a martial artist has to sacrifice form to brute strength. This adds a level of choice previously unknown to Fixer: "Do I save this card for later, or can I burn it for extra damage?".

Another good fix is the one suggested by Spiff, the Stance Shifting Master version, available on his site. This fix gives Fixer a Bruce Lee kind of feel, further encouraging players not to stick to just one Tool/Style combination.

The last good fix I will discuss is a suggested change to Toolbox. Keeping the text as is, we add "Power: Search Mr. fixer's deck for a tool and place it into play or into your hand. Shuffle your deck. Destroy this card.". This gives him a good search card for Tools, but at the same time, comes at a good, reasonable cost: "Do I absolutely need a particularly Tool right now, or do I use this draw engine for just a little while longer?".

Teamups
As already stated above, increasing Fixer's damage, letting him punch through DR to work his magic is very good for him, so any hero who helps in this regard would work well with Fixer. He is also best friends with any hero who helps him draw cards, so he can get at his Tools and Styles faster.

Nemeses
Mr. Fixer has the dubious honor of having arguably one of the toughest Villains as a nemesis: The Chairman and the Operative. Playing against them with Fixer somewhat changes his play style; although he is still primarily concerned with fixing situations (example: his Alternating Tiger Claw/Greased Monkey Fist and Jack Handle work wonders against the hoards of underbosses and thugs the Organization throws at you, Hoist Chain takes care of revenge damage, Tire Iron can take care of DR protected underbosses, Mantis+Pipe Wrench can keep you alive...) he becomes more aggressive. I find that when I use him against the Organization, I focus on making full use of the nemesis bonus and just plain dealing damage more than usual (For example, I am a lot less hesitant to drop Bloody Knuckles, though again, this also means that I get beaten up badly as well).

Cool guide, man.  I'm writing this guide, and I think I have a few different perspectives and points of advice to put forward.

Do me a favor and change the name?  I don't really have a copyright or anything, but still.

This is the first I've heard about Overdrive letting you use a power and then strike twice, I don't want to sound rude, but are you sure that's correct? Or are you saying if you had an additional power use from something, you could use a power then overdrive to strike twice?

I'm not sure about mentioning all the fixes and debate about Mr. Fixer throughout the entire guide. If you mention it at all it should all be delegated to a section at the very end, possibly even a seperate post. This way you can foucs on saying "This is why Fixer is cool" instead of "This is why Fixer is cool in spite the fact everyone says he's really weak and needs changed" during the main part of the guide.

I haven't played Fixer much, but I'd never noticed before the ability to chain Jack handle or Dual Crowbars off of Fixer Dealing himself damage, that's cool.

If Fixer has the Rod of Anubis or Idol of Anput, he can certainly use it and Overdrive to Strike twice on the same turn.  A very desirable synergy, if a strange-sounding ruling.  This was confirmed by Christopher, if I'm not mistaken.

I don't think an additional power use on his turn would help him, though.  If he were to play Overdrive out of turn, though, he would still get to Strike twice that turn.  Again, I'm pretty sure that was confirmed by a higher power.

Only if both Strikes are used after the power granted by some odd source. The reasoning behind it is Overdrive simply says "you may use overdrive twice this turn" if you use the other power you have gained you still have not fulfilled what Overdrive has given you, thus allowing you to still use Strike twice.

You mentioned Fixer's great interactions with Pipe Wrench and Driving Mantis Style, but it really bears emphasis, considering how often instances of 2-3 damage appear over the course of a game, particularly when you have 4 players at the table. Any attack that deals H-1 or H-2 damage effectively becomes offense for you.  Hoist Chain can work much the same way, though the increased damage of Pipe Wrench is generally preferred, unless the villain is going to hit multiple Heroes in a turn.

I always try to make sure that at least once copy of Overdrive is in my trash at all times.  Why?  Salvage Yard!  Essentially, it lets you replay that Overdrive for free, while handing all of your friends back their lost equipment.  Plus, that little bit of extra offense tends to really come in handy after Citizen Dawn or Omnitron has just destroyed all of your toys.  Don't forget that Grease Gun counts as equipment, which just saved my team last night, as Fixer singlehandedly kept the Matriarch and her flock from dealing damage for three turns out of seven.  I ended up with two Salvage Yards in hand, which let me bring back that same Grease Gun while laying keeping Matriarch's damage minimized with Hoist Chain.

If I have a copy of Harmony out, I tend to preserve it more than Style cards, simply due to frequency.  Chances are that if I don't have another Style in hand, ready to go, I likely have a copy of Meditation, which will let me auto-play whatever style is needed at the time.

Also, don't overlook Tire Iron.  If you have, say, Grease Monkey Fist and Harmony in play, you can take out any target with 5hp or less in one go--something you couldn't necessarily do with Crowbars or Pipe Wrench.  While some of the Shattered Timelines villains have higher hp, most of the base set and RC/IR minions are lower on the proverbial totem pole.

Bloody Knuckles can really come into its own when you're about to Jack Handle your way through a ton of minions, especially if you're the last player in order.  If you can minimize instances of damage against you, it makes that damage-taken trade off much more palatable.  Dont use it against one foe--use it when youre facing a ton of foes to put yourslef over the edge and take them out.  Just think:  each of Voss's minions have 3 hp.  Even facing a massive Forced Deployment, Fixer can take down all of the minions in one stroke with only Jack Handle and Bloody Knuckles.  Toss Grease Monky Style or Harmony in the mix and you can kill them even with DR-producing guards around.  

Well written, brother!

Flamethrower: done! Sorry about that :P Looking forward to your guide!

Chaos: as Flame and Ronway have said, it is legal :)

PlatinumWarlock: Thanks for those, Warlock! Especially the Bloody Knuckles tip. I hadn't thought of using it in such a scenario.

Awesome guide! Today I had my second chance to run with Fixer, this time against Advanced Baron Blade. Of all the lousy luck, he kept drawing living forcefields and platforms, but the one major thing I had to contribute was Riveting Crane, which let everyone else wail on him for full damage. I'll definitely have to try out the other points here, assuming I can shuffle properly.

Thanks Basarin! Glad you found this good. Good luck on your next try. Fixer is really, really fun to play when you get him going; you really feel heroic, getting rid of DR, hitting everyone for the kill, etc. Enjoy!

Awesome job, Drak! While Mr. Fixer is by no means my favorite hero, I find him invaluable against villians with DR and lots of minions...

Wait, I think I found another person to go against Advanced Grand Warlord Voss!

Keep up the good work! Education is the vaccine against ignorance!

Something else I want to point out, Mr. Fixer's Dual Crowbars is also good with Driving Mantis, you just don't want it buffed to do this. As you can hit a target for 2 then you hit yourself but since you have Driving Mantis you can redirect it to the same target, dealing it 4 damage.

Ooooooo that is really sneaky. Never thought of that trick before :).

I really like the "use when" for the styles and tools.  That's a very targeted, very useful way to let a noob know when to pull out a particular card.

Ronway, that is just...devious. And evil. And beautiful. I have to try that out soon.

Spiff, thanks for that! The idea for this guide actually started from that bit, knowing when to use what. So yeah, thanks!

....I actually got giddy that you complimented my guide. Heeeeeee.

Crowbars also helps with Riveting Crane as it not only has an eaier time punching through DR and gets two targets that can be assaulted worth.

I appreciate the guide and find it helpful. I do have one quibble, specifically with the sentence quoted above.  I've contributed a couple of times to the "Fix Mr. Fixer" threads (offering my own house-rules for improving the character) and have yet to really see the character shine like his peers, so while I am one of Mr. Fixer's detractors, I wouldn't say Mr. Fixer is "hated" by myself or anyone else in the SotM forum community. Playing Netrunner, I've heard people go on extensive rants about how much they hate the anarch Noise because they feel his ability is too strong or because it involves largely NOT interacting with the other player, thus diminishing the fun of the game. I've seen Magic: The Gathering matches devolve into fist fights because one guy hated Sliver decks, or felt the Kamigawa ninjas were broken. There is nothing in SotM that has inspired that sort of visceral reaction.  Mr. Fixer is merely one of the more controversial heroes, to the point that some have stepped forward to discuss the matter and perhaps offer suggestions to improve peoples enjoyment of playing him.  Hated, I feel, is entirely the wrong way to categorize it.

That's all. Thanks again for the guide.

I agree with that point.  Might be more correct to say "Mr. Fixer may be the most controversial hero in the game".

i think something that "Controversial" misses though is the fact that there are people who really love him...maybe "polarizing"?

I love Fixer, and think the only thing that potentially needs fixing is the clarity in the intended interpretation of a couple of his cards.  I have no real qualms with Strike, though some of the suggested alternates (by Spiff and The_Jakey) look a lot of fun. 

So I disagree with "hated" too, and I personally think Tire Iron is less useful than Bloody Knuckles but it's your guide, and a rather good one too.  Thanks for sharing!

I think people heavily underestimate/misinterpret dual crowbars. The way I read it, it double dips on damage modifiers, since it causes two separate instances of damage. Let's say you have dual crowbars, grease monkey first, and harmony. That's +3 damage. You strike your first target for 4 damage. Then, you deal a separate instance of 4 damage, modified again by +3, which is 7 damage. That's 11 damage from one power, which is pretty nuts.

If this reading is correct, then Jack Handle is also significantly better than it looks at first glance, since it would double dip too.

As an added bonus, this interaction benefits heavily from bloody knuckles. Consider jack handle + bloody knuckles = 5 damage would be dealt to Mr. Fixer, so 7 damage is dealt to all enemies.

It has been said that the second damage from Dual Crowbars is unchanging https://greaterthangames.com/comment/3949#comment-3949 though it is not directly from a Christopher, but I doubt TheJaymann would be lieing.

Also the topic of Jack Handle and Bloody Knuckles has be discussed yet not official ruling as been declared on if he can target himself and get both bonus to all non-hero targets.

Damn, I guess it was too good to be true. Maybe a better wording would be "Whenever Mr. Fixer deals damage, a second target takes the same amount of damage".

Edited to say 'controversial' rather than 'hated' :) You guys make good points; I should have thought of it myself. Thank you!

ArgentInept (I swear to God, I love your username.), It's just that sometimes, I find that I have more use for Tire Iron than Bloody Knuckles-for one, I would not hesitate to put down TI if I didn't have a better Tool in hand, but at the same time, I always always always think thrice before putting down a Bloody Knuckle, and then I always regret it afterwards.

I had one game against Voss where we weren't going to last another round, but we might have been able to take him out and bloody knuckles was the deciding factor. Other than that situation, a literal last-ditch effort, I've always regretted them.

Then again, if you've got a pretty steady damage dealer and you know Mr. Fixer won't be taking damage (whether by other hero intervention or just he's not the highest/lowest and there's no group) why not?

Bloody Knuckles is pretty much always useful against The Matriarch. First it gives you a damage bump, then you sack it to avoid taking damage. This also works against Illusory Demons, or with Absolute Zero's Fueled Freeze.

I'm definaitely in the "love Fixer" camp, and he had a game-winning turn for us against Miss Info last game.  Using nothing more than Driving Mantis, aided about half the time by Dual Crowbars, he was able to weather the non-target side and the damage from Silver Gulch and then slowly but surely hit  after the flip(and have Miss Info hit herself).  At the end TL Tachyon and Unity were incap, EoW Bunker was at 2 life and Fixer still had 16.  It was simple, it required 1 card and it won us the game.

Drakossozh,

Thanks for the guide. You did a good job keeping a middle ground in the crazy Mr. Fixer controversy. It really helped you keep from being eaten alive. I appreciated that you included the Fixer fixes. I feel honored that mine was mentioned (the discard one).

I think you should include the Driving Mantis Dual Crowbar combo Ronway mentioned. I like that you mentioned the Driving Mantis Pipe Wrench combo. Flamethrower's guides usually mentions nemeses, too. Thanks again.

Thanks for the suggestions, j1hopki1! I'll change it to reflect them :) Especially to credit you for your fix! It really is one of the best fixes I encountered trawling through here :)

I just posted this on another thread but thought it relevant:

I believe the problem with that thread is that people later said that when Christopher said "same period" what he really meant was you don't double dip the damage buffs, for Fixer, however this didn't address DR on targets.

I play it (as a home rule, not convinced that it is correct officially) as if it says "Whenever an attack by Fixer would target one target, you may instead target two targets" for crowbars and "Whenever an attack by Fixer would target one target, instead target each non-hero target" for jack handle. 

That way you calculate the damage bonus and reduction separately for each target.  Since most damage buffs are static Fixer would still get the same bonuses (or negatives) against every target, however each target would get its own DR.  If a target has an something like "this target takes additional damage" it would only apply to that target.

One place where I can see an issue is if he has some kind of damage bonus (or negative) for just the NEXT attack but I can't think of anything that would give him that outside of an incapacitated hero ability.  Maybe you condiser all of it the next attack or maybe only the first thing hit.

Yeah I love fixer, I think he is almost always effective in my hands.  I have had some friends complain about him being boring though.  Not bad, just boring.  Their argument is that once you play a Mantis and a Pipe Wrench (or whatever tool is best in with this enemy, we usually tank pretty hard) you might as well skip card play for the rest of the game.  Ok thats a little exageration because Grease Gun and Salvage Yard rock, and Overdrive and his one shot damage are fine too, its just that too often your hand fills up with styles and tools you never want to play.  I can think of one particular game where a friend was excited by his opening hand, played Mantis and Pipe Wrench in the first two turns and proceded to say "FU Fixer" after every card draw for the rest of the game.  By the end of the game we had won but he had only played one more card from hand in the entire game.  He was quite frustrated even though Fixer did well that game.

Personally even though I like Fixer, if there was one hero in the game I would redesign its him.  Other heros I might redesign a card or a power but thats all.  With Fixer I think I would make redirect of Mantis his base power and last a round, then put a strike(+draw a card maybe) as a second power on an ongoing.  I would make styles bounce to hand when you played a new one and not tools (thats why you have salvage yard).  Overdrive would either allow you to play two cards now or an addtional power this turn, or work like OX's card where you play a card and use a power at the end of your turn.  I would replace about 6-12 cards in the deck with one shots that would either be an attack or on ongoing/environment destruction or some other useful effect.

Allow me to throw my two cents into the debate. Mind you, I don't remember where or how I came to these conclusions other than a literal reading of the cards. I apologize if I am wrong.

For Jack Handle, I read it as "Whenever Fixer would deal damage to a target, INSTEAD deal that damage to all non-hero targets." meaning, if he were to damage himself for Infection, or deal damage to a teammate for Afflicted Frenzy, he would NOT damage his friends and instead hit all non-heroes for the same amount, type, etc. Moreover, while the bonuses/reductions granted to Fixer are only applied once (remember, you are merely changing the target, not having performing another attack), the reductions/bonuses applied to the various recipients would be calculated individually. Example: if he was fighting against, say, the Organization, and used Jack Handle (with a +1 damage only from Galvanize) while a Crooked Cop (-1 damage to underbosses, the Operative, and the Chairman), he would be able to deal 2 (1+1) damage to the Crooked Cop, 1 damage to the Deputy (1+1-1), and two damage to the Operative (1+1-1+1), and no damage to the (unflipped) Chairman.

On the other hand, Dual Crowbars seems to read slightly different. Let us give the same situation as above, except without the Cop. You choose the Operative as the first target of your hit; you deal her 4 damage (1 +1 from Crowbars +1 from Galvanize +1 from Nemesis). You may then choose another target to deal the same amount of damage, meaning 4 again. This is not another attack, so you don't get another +1 ftom Galvanize, etc.

The difference here is that, while Jack Handle implies that you basically hit everyone simultaneously, Dual Crowbars seems to say that you choose one, then you choose another.

Does this sound about right?

That's exactly how I would interpret dual crowbars, had I not read TheJaymann's report on Christopher's intention of the card's effects.  To me it reads like you complete the first instance of damage, then initiate a separate attack with base damage equal to the damage dealt by the first.  When I play Absolute Zero and use thermodynamics with isothermic transducer in play, boosted by galvanize, I deal myself 1+1 fire damage, then deal 2+1 cold to a target of my choice.  The difference being Fixer can more easily collect multiple boosts so the damage can easily skyrocket, but it still feels unfair to treat him differently.

Jack Handle is anyone's guess, I'm happy to accept the instead aspect, because it omits the "as well" that Dual Crowbars has.  Although, the first time I played fixer I had the first instance land, then initiate an attack based on the damage dealt, to all non-heros including the one I just hit.  Like supercrowbars.  It was insane.  I couldn't understand why given the choice you'd ever play the other tools.

So... you mean it would go like this?

Hit one target for 2 (1+1 from Crowbar), then hit another target for 3 (2+1 from Crowbar)

Yeah sorry I just reread you post and realised that wasn't what you were saying at all.  I interpreted crowbars the first time I read it as hitting one target for 1+1, hitting a second target for 2+1.

I have been doing the "the exact same amount" thing since reading around the forums immediately after that first game.  So 1+1 to one target, 2, unmodified, to the second.  I don't like how it ignores damage reduction but I dislike it less than I dislike being able to double-up on boosts from GMF, harmony etc. because that makes fixer's deck extraordinarily unbalanced.

Can I suggest that discussions about Crowbars and Jack Handles and other things should go in their own topic so as to not clutter up a topic about Drakossozh's guide?  This should be a place for feedback on the guide, not on Mr. Fixer in general.

Flamethrower's guide to Mr. Fixer is out now (small world) and I think I like Drakossozh's better. I like the when to use what idea. Flamethrower did point out the Jack Handle rulings questions, though.

/edited. I took out the Character Profile part because (a) I realized that the guide didn't call for a part like that so much, and more importantly, (b) it's kinda Flamethrower's gig, and I'm already, ah, stepping on his toes a bit more than I should, borrowing his format and writing guides and stuff.

I just wanna take this ooportunity to thank Flamethrower again :D

That's funny, because the guide comparisons and criticisms are out now, and I think I like Drakossozh's better!

No, seriously, it's all good.     My way isn't the only way to play, so it's really good to hear what advice other people can bring to the table.  You're not stepping on anyone's toes with your guide, Drako, and I'm happy you're writing.  

That is NOT the response I was expecting from a person called flamethrower... :) 

The flame he throws is the flame of tolerance and polite agreement.

What color is that?

I vote blue

obviously it’s chanteuse

I'm seeing Heliotrope

I see it as a sort of azure.

I hear there is an epic quest you can undertake to turn it green

This is such a different kind of flame war.  Typically, they're much more off-colored.

2 points.

wikied

Flamethrower: Thanks so much, then! :) I will try to continue writing guides, though it might take me a while. Lots of things going on right now.

lynkfox: wow! I feel honored! Thank you!

/updated. Decided to add an introductory/opening spiel, the way I would introduce a character to a new player. Might prove helpful (especially for me, so I can remember what I normally say, haha!)