04-05-2021, 04:06 PM | #71 |
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Re: Advantages of a short sword
The Broadsword / Shortsword split might also have come out of Japanese martial arts which sometimes treat tanto, wazikashi, and katana as three separate units (I think more often they have two of the three or one is quite abbreviated). But a lot of that can be represented with familiarities and with improved skill improving your capabilities with a range of weapons. Improving your Sword skill might involve mastering the wazikashi katas just like it might involve 10,000 blows at the pell.
In GURPS 4e, the Weapon Bond perk can also model someone who has trained extensively with a specific model of weapon and has trouble adapting to slightly different weapons. It would be fair to give many people a modest skill + Weapon Bond.
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04-05-2021, 04:13 PM | #72 | ||||
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I suppose I was leaning towards a very fantasty styled symmetrical weapon, which would arguably be quite cool. Anyway, because I do want to avoid talking past each other I do want to recognize that the staff/spear situation hasn't ever really been a problem in any game I've participated in. Usually it comes up when someone has a really specific thing they want to do or wants to get the most out of a particular build. Given how close those skills are and all the perks built to support that stuff, separate staff and spear skills have kept things simple for the wizards and guardsmen who use them without embellishment, and a minimal cost for the characters that really want to make the spear sing. I think I actually did whip up a character that did some cool spear stuff. Because I wanted to use a shield at the same time, I focused the perk support towards being able to change grips quickly to pop into an overhand/reverse grip and use that metal-capped butt end for I think up to 'C'lose range. Didn't play with the staff overlap since I had the shield to make up the defense. |
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04-06-2021, 09:52 AM | #73 | |
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All Weapon Adaptation does is specify a group of weapons that use a certain skill that can now be used by an alternative skill. It's not specific weapons, as I think you are implying- correct me if I am wrong. (This means that Weapon Adaptation does have a misleading name, but what else is new for GURPS?) For instance, Weapon Adaptation (Spear to Staff) lets you use Staff skill for any weapon that by default uses Spear skill.
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04-06-2021, 10:28 AM | #74 | |
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