Well, thank you for explaining, The Great Triangle.  How about this for next time as a compromise.  Some MMORPG's I've played have a daily limit cap on XP gained from combat.  After that, combat xp slows down to a crawl.  This was designed to help people who didn't have all day each day to grind exp not to be quickly overshadowed by people with a ton of time on their hands.  That sort of system would work well here, and be totally unoffensive.<br/><br/>That said, Garrett HAS a great niche.  The man is the PERFECT infiltrator.  Kasumi couldn't select him to go with the infiltration team, as IC she did not know him.  But if he had suggested himself, perhaps mentioned some of his past successful break ins/break outs, Kasumi would have herself bowed out of the infiltration team in his favor.  With Garrett's skills in bluff, diplomacy, sense motive, hide and move silently, and gather information, he could have had himself best friends with the ambassador, and invited Marc IV out for tea before the assault team ever had to do a thing!<br/><br/>He's a great asset to any team, if he'd work in his specialty, and leave fighting rampaging mobs to me.  :)  (He can do the 'distracting rampaging mobs thing much better of course!)<br/><br/>So, thanks, Triangle, sorry bout the rant, and hey, presto, Garrett, go blow up the building, cause that would be a story people would REALLY buy papers for!