GURPS Martial Arts data file available for download

[ericbsmith]

I'm making my current version of the GURPS Martial Arts data file available for download. This file is still very much a work in progress; it currently contains only a few Styles and no Character Templates, and there are some other items I've yet to tackle. It does contain pretty much all of the new Weapons and Techniques.

http://gurpsland.no-ip.org/GCA4/MartialArts.zip

http://www.geocities.com/ericbsmith/...artialArts.zip

[PK]

Aren't Iron Body Parts all cinematic? I only have the playtest files (which I did keep updated as text was changed), so bear that in mind.

[ericbsmith]

Yup, missed the Astrix.

[Hannes665]

Any word on the rest of the MA GCA files? Just curious... not panicing :P

[ericbsmith]

I continue to work on it as I have time, but the MA Styles are extremely time consuming so extremely slow. Still, if you haven't downloaded in a week or more try grabbing the file again, you may find it's been updated.

[PK]

Hsain I Chuan (sp?) has the Arm Lock technique available, which should be for Judo, but is coming up as being for weapons instead.

[Taellosse]

All of the various "Counterattack" techniques are misspelled, at least as of the version posted on 9/13 (I don't know if there's been a more recent one). They're all spelled "Couterattack." Just thought you might want to fix that. ;-)

[Hannes665]

Originally Posted by Taellosse

All of the various "Counterattack" techniques are misspelled, at least as of the version posted on 9/13 (I don't know if there's been a more recent one). They're all spelled "Couterattack." Just thought you might want to fix that. ;-)

That would be a intresting attack :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couter

[Taellosse]

Originally Posted by Hannes665

That would be a intresting attack :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couter

Heh. I actually didn't know couter was a word (spellchecks seem to think otherwise, not that this surprises me).

There's probably actually an argument to be made for an elbow strike while wearing such an item getting a damage bonus...but I don't think it needs its own technique. ;-)

[Taellosse]

I notice that there are, with Martial Arts loaded, now 2 distinct Neck Snap techniques (not including the art and sport versions added with MA): Neck Snap (Strength) and Neck Snap (ST). The former comes from the Basic Set, and the latter from Martial Arts. Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems like the two are functionally identical (although the code in GCA for them seems to differ slightly, they don't appear to function any differently). I don't see anything in the MA description on page 77 that makes it greatly distinct from the technique in Basic (though, again, I could be missing something). Is there any actual need for this to be duplicated like this? There may be a few other techniques like this from the same section in MA, but I haven't gone through the list exhaustively--I just came across this one while building an NPC.