| From: | The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.ac.uk> |
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| Subject: | Martial Arts (was Re: Digital's WWW Site) |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:19:10 +0100 (BST) |
> I hope you still believe me when I'm telling you that I've practised
> Escrima for a while (EWTO Style). Escrima is about the most
> comprehensive and flexible combat system available today.
> I found one major "flaw" in your description of Escrima:
> it is not true that Escrimadores can only fight with daggers, knives
> or sticks. In fact, Escrima has been designed to cover *all* aspects
> of armed combat, which means that an Escrimador can handle the knive,
> the stick, the baseball bat, the longsword, the nunchaku, and so on
Although I'm not familiar with the martial art I do recognise your point,
however to maintain game balance I felt that specifying only two types of
weapon was best, otherwise escrima would become a cheap way (Karma wise)
to gain an effective Armed Combat skill.
Oh and by the way, the 'baton' term was used to refer to any sort of stick
with up to 1 point of reach, so baseball bats would be included, and I
guess if teh GM allowed swords (with maybe a plus 1 TN).
The Digital Mage : mn3rge@****.ac.uk
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