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12-16-2014, 06:09 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Oct 2012
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Martial Arts training armor for a combat skill?
Mostly as a background detail for my campaign is some training armor for martial artists. Well, not exactly. There's no "blue on blue" training, it's all "blue on red." There is a heavy difference in skill levels in favor of blue (the martial artists), and they actually wear minimal armor, generally enough to prevent serious injury, but not injury at all, just broken bones. The opponents are mostly a combination of volunteer army grunts who get money if they lose (normal), or a much larger sum if they win (rare, but provides motivation), or volunteer prison convects for moderate crimes (those that would imply Brawling-10 to 12), but with time off their sentences instead. The training targets need more protection to ensure they don't get (seriously) hurt. Since the skull is the most common target, they need protection against full-power extra effort jump kicks at the high end, at least for the skull. At the same time, it also has to avoid injuring the martial artist under Hurting Yourself. Basically it has to keep injury below the Major Wound threshold.
It's intended for learning real combat skills without anybody getting hurt (seriously), and shouldn't be something for training a Combat Art skill. Judging who "won" is simple - if the martial artiest lands a blow, particularly to the skull, it's assumed to be a fight-ender, which it would usually be in real combat. If the training guy connects with a good blow, he's considered to have won, as the trainees never have more than 10-11 HP anyway. If the both connect close to the same time, in the same motion, then the both sides lose. I guess just keep it as a background detail? |
12-16-2014, 06:28 PM | #2 | ||
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If you're adamant on that pile up multiple layers of some variety of DR 2 cloth. Alternatively give the martial artists gloves and some kind of foot coverings to protect themselves and better armour on the heads of the targets. No matter what, it's a sadistic method of training. Last edited by Sindri; 12-16-2014 at 06:51 PM. |
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12-16-2014, 09:01 PM | #3 | |
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12-16-2014, 09:40 PM | #4 |
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Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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Re: Martial Arts training armor for a combat skill?
St 10 is a fully athletic 18 year old man fit for adventuring and soldiering, not Lazy McLazyson systems analyst.
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12-17-2014, 06:06 AM | #5 | |
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How did "average" suddenly turn into an athletic man in his prime? That sounds like a pretty good description of "above average" to me... In general, I've seen a lot of people on the forums make blanket statements about what attribute scores "mean" that contradicts what GURPS says they mean in the very first chapter of the Basic set. Statements like "nobody really has IQ 13," "everyone has HT 10 or lower," etc. |
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12-17-2014, 06:42 AM | #6 | |
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Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Re: Martial Arts training armor for a combat skill?
Sometimes I wish this forum had a +1 button.
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12-17-2014, 07:47 AM | #7 | |
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Gurps is not meant to be simulationistic at all. It's a game for rough settings, and not meant to illustrate normal people, average or otherwise. I can one arm curl 60 pounds, am the second strongest person I've met in my limited personal experience, yet according to many here qualify for ST 10 only.
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12-16-2014, 09:42 PM | #8 | |
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Re: Martial Arts training armor for a combat skill?
Basically it's operating on the quite rational TL 6 judgement that you need to train to fight against the opposition you'll actually be facing, namely brawling (or other skill) 10-12. Second, they'd rather the people they're training have no experience how to fight against their own style.
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For who? Nobody gets worse than heavy bruises, and it's always volunteers, and the reward is high enough to make it worthwhile for enough of them. You still get a bonus if you lose. It's worth pointing out it's not always 1 on 1, both unarmed. It's perfectly common to give "red" a blunt training knife, or other kinds of training weapons. Or impose scenario limitations on the martial artist (you have to go for the leg, or you have to try to disarm him (and his friend). Or give "red" a gun with non-leathel training rounds, for "blue" to to ensure their dodges are up to par. It's also common to do 2 on 1 or 3 on 1 as well (always with "red" having the advantage). Or both at the same time. |
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12-16-2014, 10:09 PM | #9 | |||
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I'm not sure if anyone trains using extra effort on a regular basis for anything. A cinematic martial arts style putting heavy emphasis on extra effort would be a cool concept but extra effort is difficult to get people to do just as a normal thing and will wear people out and reduce the amount of time you can spend training. Quote:
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12-16-2014, 10:29 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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I think you're focusing too heavily on the jump kick to the head. I read it as an outlier possibility that, by virtue of not being against the training rules, needs to be addressed.
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armor, combat sport, martial art, martial artist, training |
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