01-01-2015, 06:31 AM | #41 |
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Re: Improving the Tonfa
I honestly think what you are describing comes under GURPS resolution as the Weapon Master advantage. The video you linked to gives evidence to this (IMO). It's the difference between someone who is merely skilled (i.e. trained with a light club), vs someone who has the benefit of generations of skilled knowledge passed down in how to generate real power with a light weapon (relative to other battlefield weapons). WM would give a ST 10 user +2 to both swing and thrust, which is enough to bring the damage up to the level you are looking for.
Note that this doesn't mean every real life trained practitioner of the tonfa/tonkwa is a "Weapon Master", it means only that this is how the GURPS game handles this kind of difference. |
01-01-2015, 08:56 AM | #42 | |
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Personally, I'd just put it to 'martial artists are strong', and the fact that people aren't actually that hard to break. +2 ST over Gollum's expectation explains the results just as well as tonfas actually being way more awesome than other virtually-identical sticks.
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01-01-2015, 10:48 AM | #43 |
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Re: Improving the Tonfa
Yikes! That's the same as a lot of unbalanced maces (Small Mace or Round Mace), or as a 6-foot staff (4 lbs) being swung in *both* hands. Seems excessive to me - I can't see the available mass and leverage of a tonfa achieving comparable striking force.
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01-01-2015, 11:20 AM | #45 |
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Re: Improving the Tonfa
Were you not talking about Gollum's claims about the real performance of tonfas?
I probably wouldn't, but some of it could come from Trained ST benefits if one were to generalize those from Technical Grappling.
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01-01-2015, 12:19 PM | #46 | |
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Well, and better understanding of mechanics than exists before then to design in the first place, though that's something that could presumably be done through trial and error.
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01-01-2015, 12:22 PM | #47 | |
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01-01-2015, 12:38 PM | #48 | |
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My original point was intended to be that sometimes great ideas can still be found for old designs. The reason something wasn't done sooner may simply be that no one thought of it yet.
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01-01-2015, 12:39 PM | #49 | |
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But for the comparison with the small mace and the round mace, it is a problem, indeed. It really sounds exaggerated. A metal weapon logically hits harder... Especially against armors! Having said that, here again, in collisions, the speed is more important than the weight. We are at the limits of GURPS granularity, actually. _____ * I never made any scientific experiment to prove it, though. Last edited by Gollum; 01-01-2015 at 12:44 PM. |
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