11-07-2016, 02:03 PM | #1 |
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Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Technique] Barbectomy
There's a Swedish RPG in which dwarves have a proverb: "Your beard is your honor." This means that honor is as much part of a dwarves nature as the beard is. One of the elven PCs in my friend's game has developed a technique for Fast-Drawing a sword and cutting off a dwarf's beard in one stroke. I call this "Barbectomy". How would you stat that for GURPS?
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11-07-2016, 02:10 PM | #2 |
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Re: [Technique] Barbectomy
It would just be a technique for a targeted attack. Probably starting at -5. Maybe -4.
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11-07-2016, 02:37 PM | #3 |
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Re: [Technique] Barbectomy
Use the beard's size modifier as base. So if dwarf beards are six inches then you got your modifier.
Then you apply that as a technique as said above. You can find out more info in Martial Arts book on how to create techniques like these.
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11-07-2016, 02:47 PM | #4 |
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Re: [Technique] Barbectomy
Using the technique design system I get Skill-7:
Barbectomy Hard Default: Prerequisite skill-7Prerequisite: Any edged weapon skill; cannot exceed prerequisite skill. A successful hit with an attack capable of doing at least one point of cutting damage severs the target's beard near the jawline, doing no injury. Last edited by sir_pudding; 11-08-2016 at 12:52 AM. |
11-07-2016, 10:29 PM | #5 |
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Re: [Technique] Barbectomy
It would be "barbotomy." An -ectomy is a cutting out of something internal; an -otomy is a cutting off of something. You'd only have barbectomy if the dwarf was suffering from ingrown beard.
Strictly it ought to be pogonotomy, from the Greek word for "beard," as the use of Greek anatomical roots is customary in surgery.
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