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Old 03-27-2013, 11:24 AM   #41
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That's largely what I was thinking. Many of them are pretty specific for a full skill, more like aspect of a broader ability
Also Familiarities, and Floating skills to other attributes.

But multi-purpose skills seem like the most desirable thing in the RPG context. Randomly looking over my THS character, I think I can come up with kinky uses for perhaps 20% of his skill set. Okay, I guess Jake's quote had 20% of truth to it.

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I've have to acquire some of those books so it'll be slow going.
On one hand, don't take it too seriously. You probably don't need LTC much. You probably don't need Horror either (though it's a nice book in general).
On the other, you probably need both BIO and SE for running a good THS campaign.

PU2:Perks, UT, and Toxic Memes are good to have in general, though not exactly essential for you.
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Old 03-27-2013, 10:43 PM   #42
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Regarding GURPS sex. 4th Edition isn't so different that it would be extremely difficult for me to try and convert things on my own or wildly unbalanced to just wing it?
Lots of stuff that it makes whole skills really should be techniques. Kissing for example.
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If even that. So far, I think there was precisely one case throughout the years where a character (NPC, actually) needed a detail level grater than just a skill level (in fact, I think One Task Wonder would've been a better choice in 4e than a Technique), and was is in a rather romance-heavy campaign (compared to others I GMed/played), with actual love triangles, sanity checks, coming-of-age anxiety, erotic 'misuses' of 3e Telekinesis and other stuff.
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Old 03-29-2013, 01:18 PM   #44
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4e seems to have RAW support for many traits that are found there. Such as:
Classic Features for various 'cool-looking X' variants (all of them, really). (PU2:Perks)
Extreme Sexual Dimorphism. (BIO)
Conception, contraception and pregnancy. (LTC)
Stress effects on sexual performance. (Horror)
Romance, seduction and one-night stands. (SE)
'Toys' for the activity. (UT)
Purpose-built bioroids. (BIO, THS)
Lecherous tentacled xenophilic cults. (THS Toxic memes)

If all else fails, you can wait for Technical Grappling.
Also, I'll share a vague sneak peek here: GURPS Thaumatology: Chinese Elemental Powers (which is still in production as of this writing) will include expanded rules for Erotic Art (among other skills).
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Old 03-29-2013, 01:51 PM   #45
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Also, I'll share a vague sneak peek here: GURPS Thaumatology: Chinese Elemental Powers (which is still in production as of this writing) will include expanded rules for Erotic Art (among other skills).
Okay, that was totally out of left field*, and it isn't even April 1st yet. What next, GURPS Wings Of The Riding Sun providing a RAW answer to the question of bedroom service costs**?

* == Unless, of course, it has something to do with armaments of the deities. Then it kinda makes sense. Probably.
** == On second thought, given that Cities On The Edge provided a template of legal (in the EU, of all places) TL10 non-superscience techno-succubi . . . and has Prostitution as one of the index entries . . . I'm no longer sure whether my prediction sounds genuinely silly or not.
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Okay, that was totally out of left field*, and it isn't even April 1st yet.

* == Unless, of course, it has something to do with armaments of the deities. Then it kinda makes sense. Probably.
Actually, it makes quite a bit of sense in the context of all the eastern traditions that say that semen is important and ejaculating involves draining yourself of a little vitality. If you've got a relevant Vow as a Pact or otherwise a Power limitation that makes your powers fall off if you disrupt your humours, I can see Erotic Art rolls becoming useful if you still want to have an active sex life.
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It's probably worth reading about jing/ching in the context of neidan/nei tan. Anyway, in Taoist internal alchemy, control of sexual function is deemed essential to success . . . it isn't a weird tangent. It's impossible to separate the topic of male and female essences, including sex, from the elements.
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If even that. So far, I think there was precisely one case throughout the years where a character (NPC, actually) needed a detail level grater than just a skill level.
By analogy I think a mainly pornographic game would want the same level of detail for sexual activities that typical adventure games reserve for combat mechanics.
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Okay, that was totally out of left field
I'm surprised. Control over your own body, particularly autonomous functions, has always been part of chi. Erotic Art includes the study of contortion, mental focus, and stamina against exhaustion -- in a way, it could be considered a companion to Body Control.

Anyway, Chinese Elemental Powers will not focus heavily on skills, but it does port the concept of cinematic martial skills (e.g., Breaking Blow and Flying Leap) over to cinematic peaceful skills, by expanding five skills (one for each element): Alchemy (Metal), Erotic Art (Fire), Esoteric Medicine (Taoist) (Earth), Fortune-Telling (Feng Shui) (Water), and Herb Lore (Wood). Tapping into the cinematic "version" of each skill requires certain prerequisites, otherwise you're limited to the realistic "version." (And that's all I'm saying -- you'll have to wait for the book for details, sorry.)

Erotic Art was the most expanded of the five by far, but only because it hasn't had any detailed canonical rules at all until this point! So it gets three full paragraphs of crunch to make up for that fact.
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I'm surprised. Control over your own body, particularly autonomous functions, has always been part of chi. Erotic Art includes the study of contortion, mental focus, and stamina against exhaustion -- in a way, it could be considered a companion to Body Control.
Meditation is commonly described as extremely important for martial arts and magic, and yet the in-game effects of Meditation* are almost non-existent.

* == not to be confused with Autohypnosis.
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