Re: broad abilities

From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:30:34 -0000


Just to amplify on something that Nick said to Alex...

> Anyway, who's
> saying the secret of Six Cuts Silk isn't a valuable Close Combat
> augmentation?

And

> The Lunar Taraltaran Mystics get the Whirling Blades
> Martial Arts technique without channeling everything through CC.
> Can't we come up with similar more interesting variants for HW2 MA?

And

> > Evidently the Five Dragon Warriors need a whole 4HP to complete
> > their training, after having done the hard bit of learning just
> > one martial style.
>
> Again, I'm *sure* there is more to Eastern martial arts styles than
> Close Combat skill. C'mon, Robin wrote Feng Shui, didn't he?

>From which I draw the possibility that one could model these Wacky
martial arts as Close Combat (Base School) and a host of Schools/Techniques as individual feats that are (normally) used to augment the Close Combat rather than directly in their own right

"Drawing my Scimitar I scream my Warriors First Shout and perform the Six Cuts Silk"
(I attack with my "Close Combat 12W (Scimitar)" augmenting with both my "Warriors First Shout 17" and my "Six Cuts Silk 1W")

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