12-23-2010, 12:17 PM | #11 |
Join Date: May 2010
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Re: Martial Arts styles based on historic fighting manuals
A lot of what's in manuals are simply covered by attack rolls and parry rolls.
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12-23-2010, 01:19 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: Martial Arts styles based on historic fighting manuals
What style did they use in Surf Ninjas?
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12-23-2010, 05:17 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Martial Arts styles based on historic fighting manuals
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My take, for what it's worth, is that each historical master started with some common material and the focused on whatever worked best for them (you can see that kind of development in what successive manuscripts incorporate). We know, for example, that the manuals included a large number of different techniques, but we have little idea which of those techniques each master favored. With Fiore we theorize that at least some of the surviving manuals were produced by students from a common source. Their individual foci and interests can be seen in the differences between the books. |
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12-23-2010, 05:55 PM | #14 | ||
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Re: Martial Arts styles based on historic fighting manuals
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My point is more that there are few styles based on historical manuscripts in GURPS martial arts and most of the historical styles contained within are more indicative what modern re-enactors do by taking sources from a wide range of periods and languages (fencing methods seem to have been devided up by language backgrounds, presumably as sword systems were the product of exchanging ideas which you need to speak to others to do) and squishes them together into a super style containing all the techniques possible (I take issues with doing this much of the time but that's a topic for another thread). I was kind of curios if anyone writing for historical campaigns had decided to go into more detail and write up styles accurate to those periods and the background of the campaign. As much as this probably does constitute going into excessive detail I feel that excessive detail is in large part the joy of GURPS (I think I've written three new styles for a Swashbucklers campaign I'm doing, in spite of there being only one combat orientated character). I would reject that all or most means of using the same weapon are the same in GURPS terms, there would be a noted difference in the shortsword of George Silver, regimental highland broadsword and Italian single sword for example, as there would between say English and German longsword. Assuming I remember I'll demonstrate this with style write ups when I get back to my GURPS books.
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