10-23-2014, 03:03 PM | #21 |
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Re: [MA] Hobby Skill: Feats of Strength
Chewing on dwarf bread.
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10-23-2014, 05:55 PM | #22 | |
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Re: [MA] Hobby Skill: Feats of Strength
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10-23-2014, 07:23 PM | #23 |
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Re: [MA] Hobby Skill: Feats of Strength
Stripping/breaking open a coconut with your teeth is pretty impressive. Seeing that one Hawaiian woman do it almost as fast as a trained dog is really "interesting".
Imagine her as a zombie. She really might "realistically" be able to bite through a skull.
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10-24-2014, 02:02 AM | #24 | |
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10-25-2014, 03:16 PM | #25 | |
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In general, though, it's a hobby skill. It represents knowledge and explicitly says it doesn't improve capabilities. You might know the trick to rolling up a frying pan or how to hold a nail to bend it without hurting your hands, but you still need to attributes to do it. What else it covers is almost purely a GM call. Keep the above in mind - it's a hobby skill, it doesn't improve what you can do, and it's all about stunts that involve some physical grit and knowledge.
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10-25-2014, 05:34 PM | #26 |
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Re: [MA] Hobby Skill: Feats of Strength
And make sure that's White pine, not Yellow pine. My sister teaches kids martial arts and dad accidentally got the wrong kind once.
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10-27-2014, 09:10 AM | #27 | |
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Anyway, if HS:FoS is not quite what I'm looking for, what is the proper skill for a mostly HT- and Will-based assembly of tricks of grit, fortitude and toughness? |
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10-27-2014, 09:18 AM | #28 | |
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Make something up if this doesn't fit. Or just float the skill's attribute, like it says to.
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10-27-2014, 09:28 AM | #29 | |
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Either way, any more examples of what can be done with it, particularly HT-/Will-based and not ST- nor DX-? |
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11-02-2014, 11:03 PM | #30 |
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Re: [MA] Hobby Skill: Feats of Strength
I'll let you decide which attribute to float these to, but off the top of my head-
Shaolin Monk demonstrations: - two-finger handstand - dragging a log with the scrotum - breaking bricks on the head - beating with canes - inverted human pyramid - stiff-finger thrusting into sand or pebbles Circus strong man: - tossing a cannon ball up to catch on the back of the neck - shooting a cannon ball into the stomach - smashing a cinder block on the chest with a sledgehammer - driving over the chest with a car - hauling a truck with various parts of the body, e.g. teeth or the little finger Others: - catching a bullet with a small target held in the teeth - catching a knife or arrow aimed at the performer Googling "strong man acts" found these 2 cool websites- http://listverse.com/2008/11/04/10-a...s-of-the-past/ http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-histor...f-strength.php
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