martial arts

[Savar]

Looking at the spec forces book. I liked the techniques for the martial arts and the idea of getting one per die incress. As an idea for a house rule make martial arts an advanced skill. After 3D and learning the three basic moves the char can then specialize in a form, or just keep advancing mixed. To lean a technique one must have a teacher. If You specialize you would only be able to learn ones associated with that form that you advanced. You also would only be able use techniques with the skill of the form you learned it in.

Just wondering if anyone had tried something like this?

[cheshire]

I was actually working on almost exactly this same idea for a D6 Magazine idea. Martial arts was an advanced skill. You could cross train and pick up any technique you wanted from any style, but it was CP expensive, since advanced skills have twice the CP cost.

I had the option to pick a style as a specialization, and you would have a limited number of techniques to pick from. CP advancement for Advanced specializations is the normal skill progression cost.

I abandoned the project after developing the spreadsheet of styles and techniques because the idea didn't seem to catch much traction, and people generally weren't interested at the time. I didn't see the point of writing an article if people weren't going to get use out of it.
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[Raven Redstar]

I use Martial Arts as an Advanced skill which requires a style to be chosen as a specialization, so it has a standard skill character point progression cost.

Each Martial Art maxes out a 8D for grand master level training, although I suppose I might allow for a bit more. And, someone trained in a style can attempt to perform any move on their style's move list by rolling (A)Dice only. To hit is determined by Brawling + (A)Dice.

I didn't like how cheap Martial Arts as a specialization is, and this way seems to work okay so far in my games.

I use a similar system with (A)Lightsaber forms, and have had less opportunity to playtest it, but overall, I like how the system works.
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[Savar]

Well it sounds like i wasn't alone then.

[garhkal]

When using martial arts as a (A) skill. Do you go by the medicine-first aid rule, where the (A) adds to the base skill (Brawl in this case)?
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[Savar]

[cheshire]

[Theodrim]

[garhkal]

[Savar]

[Kytross]

http://dagarthorn.proboards.com/thread/171/chapter-combat-injuries

last post covers martial arts.

[MadHun]

I just posted my character that was at the end of our campaign in '94.

https://www.4shared.com/office/gWgjaamVba/Karbahrak_the_ghostdocx.html

it is in Microsoft Word 97-2003 format hope this will help.
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[Ning Leihrec]

Don on Shooting Womp Rats suggested a pretty interesting option for brawling damage. The standard brawling skill only deals stun damage (the same stun rules as a blaster), but with Martial Arts a character can deal full damage. This is a very clean rule in my opinion and makes Martial Arts as an Advanced skill worth while and simple. It makes sense that standard brawling would result in knocking out an opponent while deeper training in martial arts would cause lethal damage.

[Savar]

[Whill]