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Old 11-16-2016, 04:08 PM   #32
mlangsdorf
 
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Default Re: Parry

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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen View Post
Sorry, this one's completely off. The Melee Weapons and Fencing Weapons sections in the book are just categories of skills, grouped for convenience. You can't buy skill in the whole category, you still have to buy the skills individually.
As a house rule, some people do let you by the skill categories, as one stage higher, so you can buy Fencing Weapons [P/H]. Since all the skills in a category have generous defaults to each other and you generally get diminished utility for knowing how to use multiple similar weapons, it's an interesting trade-off - do you want Rapier-16 or Rapier-15 and Saber-15 for the same amount of points?

But that's a house rule and not Rules as Written.
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