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Old 06-14-2015, 02:27 PM   #11
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Fire Eating isn't in my character archive at all. Stage Combat is on three characters: one martial artist who's done some film work, one 1930s actor, and an Elizabethan gentleman-from-the-ranks who knows the importance of making things look good. (He also has Brawling (Sport) to relax. Just because nobody's written down the rules for a bar fight, that doesn't mean there aren't rules.)
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Old 06-14-2015, 06:22 PM   #12
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Which isn't a big deal if you rule that the need for one hour of Physician nursing in cases of burn damage does not apply to non-Major wounds. Particularly once you add a +4 TDM for non-adventuring use, and probably make rolls no more often than once per day even if multiple fires are eaten.
RAW does make major burns oddly impossible to survive even in conditions where real people have survived.

I still think actual burns should only occur on critical failures. Professionals get burned but not necessarily BURNED in Gurps terms.
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Old 06-14-2015, 06:24 PM   #13
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Fire Eating isn't in my character archive at all. Stage Combat is on three characters: one martial artist who's done some film work, one 1930s actor, and an Elizabethan gentleman-from-the-ranks who knows the importance of making things look good. (He also has Brawling (Sport) to relax. Just because nobody's written down the rules for a bar fight, that doesn't mean there aren't rules.)
I wonder if you could use such skill to make your opponent look more competent than they are.
That may work for a long con, or simply to help someone save face when honor demands they fight but really don't want to.
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Old 06-15-2015, 03:08 PM   #14
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I wonder if you could use such skill to make your opponent look more competent than they are.
That may work for a long con, or simply to help someone save face when honor demands they fight but really don't want to.
Hmm. If your opponent doesn't have Stage Combat, I think I'd ask for skill with whatever he is using as well as your own Stage Combat.

The extreme case of this would be making your opponent think he is better than he is, which would definitely need both skills.
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Old 06-15-2015, 03:59 PM   #15
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In my French swashbuckling campaign, one of the characters, Simone Lebrun, was a stage actress who was taking actual fencing lessons so she could play adventure heroines more convincingly on the stage. She started out with Stage Combat at the default from performance and Smallsword at the default from DX.
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Stage Combat is the DX/A skill of appearing to fight as a spectacle. Like Fire Eating, it is about producing the illusion of danger for an audience.
On Wednesday, we concluded that bullfighting is a separate specialisation of Stage Combat. Infinite Cabal can be a bit hard on the sanity sometimes: one of the characters wants to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon by staging a bullfight. That would make sense if he were Spanish, but he's Hungarian.
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Old 04-06-2018, 11:06 AM   #17
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On Wednesday, we concluded that bullfighting is a separate specialisation of Stage Combat.
Was that a thread you could link to? Or do you mean in your own game?
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On Wednesday, we concluded that bullfighting is a separate specialisation of Stage Combat. Infinite Cabal can be a bit hard on the sanity sometimes: one of the characters wants to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon by staging a bullfight. That would make sense if he were Spanish, but he's Hungarian.
The Time there was a Bullfight in Budapest.
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Was that a thread you could link to? Or do you mean in your own game?
Own game, sorry for being unclear.
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