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Old 03-12-2014, 02:46 PM   #12
SCAR
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Default Re: Bulldancing and Bullfighting from 3e

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Originally Posted by Kromm View Post
"BY" was a pre-standardization abbreviation for GURPS Bestiary. Note well that there were multiple editions of that book with rather different interior arrangements . . . do not trust any reference you can't verify book in hand. At any rate, both of these would be Sports skills in Fourth Edition.
My softcover copy of Bestiary, which appears to be a first edition, first printing from 1988, does give itself the abbreviation BY, and has Bullfighting and Bulldancing on BY70.

Since the OP was looking for flavour for these skills:
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Bullfighting. A successful skill roll allows the matador to guide the bull's charge harmlessly past himself; failure means being gored and possibly trampled.
Cretan entertainers learned a similar skill, Bulldancing; they toy with the animal, even vaulting over its horns, but did not kill it.
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