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Old 09-17-2013, 10:55 AM   #35
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: So I dropped my sword... how do I pick it up (in combat)

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Originally Posted by Kromm View Post
That's a lot of action for one second! Breaking it down in terms of Martial Arts, p. 98: You can dive forward from standing to crawling as your entire step. You could later use Acrobatic Stand to spring from crawling to standing as another step.
While I have doubts about its realism in combat, I think the proposal is to do a somersault and pick up the weapon in the middle. That realistically takes more than a second, but so does moving 5 yards from a standing start.
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