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RE: martial arts


Author:

Bjorn Are Stolen

Time:

12.02.2003 21:41

Text:

> The reason martial arts applies to fists and kicks and not
> other weapons is that a person relies on their body by
> instinct. Martial arts allows the person to look at the
> body as a weapon. With weapon skills, you are already
> doing that. The weapon skills is already the "martial art"
> of the weapon.

So "Fist", "Kick", "Grapple", (the natural weapons) isn't the martial art of unarmed combat? Why differ between fistskill and for instance the maulskill? Therefore I'm for either disposing of the MA skill entirely, or find an useful aspect for it to cover.

> This is similar to the ability to throw a knife. Your
> ability to throw something is instinctual and would fall
> under the "throw skill" but to get the spin of the knife to
> end with the point out would be the "martial art".

Point taken, but I don't agree.

> In response to Bjorn's comment:
> Parrying is not all deflection. Some is blocking, some is
> misdirection.

Isn't misdirection and deflection the same thing? And blocking is really not the preferred defencive action acording to my experience.

> If a warrior has spent his entire life mastering the rapier
> and is at 100%, why would a martial artist with a 100%
> skill who has never picked up a rapier be able to match
> him?

The way I'll use my version of the MA skill, only DiamondDwarves would ever reach 100% in MA. And after fighting for some thousand years, I don't think its that unrealistic to match a rapier expert in a rapierduel.




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Message  martial arts
Bjorn Are Stolen 06.02.2003 19:52  
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Tom Cantine 08.02.2003 04:36  
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Bjorn Are Stolen 08.02.2003 17:00  
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Peter Beirne 12.02.2003 20:33  
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Bjorn Are Stolen 12.02.2003 21:41  
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Peter Beirne 13.02.2003 18:20  
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Bjorn Are Stolen 13.02.2003 20:10  
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Tom Cantine 14.02.2003 01:48  
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Bjorn Are Stolen 14.02.2003 09:21  
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Tom Cantine 16.02.2003 01:19  
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Bjorn Are Stolen 16.02.2003 16:57  




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