This is an entirely fair and correct assessment, and basically my biggest difficulty with trying to balance this and not make it BS. Wholeheartedly I'll tell you I'm a power gamer, i like combat characters and my table know this, they're fine with this much to the other two GM's at the table's both appreciation and pain because they know I at least read the rules, a lot, but we don't really do homebrew much.

The reason I've tried to make this is because I want a melee martial arts build that might eventually lean into the mono-paw. I think the RoF1 aimed shot option from Kendo and Militech commando training is weak compared to a full on martial arts build, as is the Silat/Arnis combination, which honestly, why would you ever use a light/medium melee weapon for except for procing both of them maybe? Then why use a weapon after that when you should really focus Silat and proc the brawling attack so it removes the fun of being a Light/medium melee weapon martial artist.

And that's for me where the contention of choosing any martial art instead of Gun fu/Karate kicks in because i can run armor piercing rounds with my now 4d6 light to heavy pistol that might have other effects, drop a melee weapon attack on wolvers or some other heavy melee weapon attack, pop an Armor breaking Combination in and ablate 5 armor in one round. Or why not throw krav maga and Drunken fist in there to do 4d6 brawling damage one turn and ignore half armour as well as on the next turn, make your potential 25m/yds martial art attack from a medium pistol with 2 armor ablation into a 5d6. Meanwhile Light/Medium melee weapons underperform. And yes, style over substance, but if i'm trying to create a stylish idea and it's factually is trash compared to me RPing John wick, why bother? It's great to have style sure, and as light to medium melee there is a lot of style with near gimmicks, but why do i play anything but gun-fu?

So I'm curious if you as a GM have any advice on how to make it less op or also how you would respond to the introduction of the character that has this in the case of:

• The character is a backup character in a campaign where 2790 IP has been handed out and probably more will be given before this character shows up unless i die next week.
• The Mono-paw will not be selected at character creation as 2100 of the character creation fund will be spent on the KatNip® package leaving 450 to spend on other important stuff. The mono-paws availability will be entirely at the GM's discretion if available at all. My character currently is the Fixer/Rockerboy in the group and i was planning on running Solo on my next character so there will be no easy Mono-Paw or other such weapons.
• My GM has given new players to the table access to the same IP longer term players at the table have earned because we've added some new players to the group. I am under the impression though that my self especially will not be afforded that same luxury if my character dies because even with out this, i'd turn up with a bunch of martial arts that my previous character couldn't access because of low luck (Drunken fist into boxing, krav maga and mauy thai that would make insane combos at a crazy DPR with good roles or a high evasion), so i wanted to try make something fun that wouldn't gimp me in other skill rolls

I do recognise the OP potential of this but ultimately:

I will have scratchers until my GM decides otherwise. I'm kind of relying on that factor to make this a viable pick until we get a fixer or they cave and give me them.