03-17-2018, 03:02 PM | #31 |
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Re: Blasphemous Polyhedral Weapons Table
Update - I found it. 7 meticulously handwritten pages on loose leaf notebook paper from 1981. In a battered cardboard folder (the kind with bendable metal brads to hold the paper). I can barely make out “TFT:ITL” written on the cover. I’ll transcribe it and post. It’s actually better than I remembered. But it was definitely written for an audience familiar with actual martial arts.
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03-18-2018, 12:32 AM | #32 | |
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And a huge YES to Kung-Fu 2100 (I even had all the skills from that as "advanced martial arts" for my TFT campaign). Now THERE'S a game I wish Steve would produce again! (Of note, there IS an older GURPS splat book about the world of the Terminators, which translates the skills into GURPS terms, and even has the basic scenario from the game set up in there (with a few preliminary events). Well worth acquiring and reading if you loved Kung-Fu 2100! |
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03-18-2018, 12:47 AM | #33 | |
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I picked up about a year's worth of Wing Tsun from a visiting master who showed up one day and claimed hospitality with Margaret. Within a week or two, he set up his own little studio and started teaching -- mostly in the park next door. He taught a couple of us on the side; sticky hands, the forms, the one-inch punch, the whole bit. Surprisingly there was a lot of transference between T'ai Chi and Wing Tsun -- both were really "soft" arts, and had a tremendous amount in common. Wing Tsun, of course, was designed originally back in the 30's as a way to quickly learn enough techniques to defeat Japanese martial artists (who were busy invading China at the time), so by the time you finished six months of Wing Tsun, you were "supposed to" be able to beat a black belt Karateka. Never had the chance to find out for myself, though... |
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03-18-2018, 12:53 AM | #34 |
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No doubt it also included smashing forearms during Lop Sau/Bong Sau drilling and Pak Sau's that sound like M-80s going off (heh heh heh) - Not the most ideal way to visit the mysterious orient... depending on you point-of-view LOL!
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03-19-2018, 10:09 PM | #35 | |
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This is another martial arts film that had a distinctly TFT Death Test vibe! JK |
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03-20-2018, 05:50 AM | #36 |
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03-20-2018, 12:06 PM | #37 |
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03-20-2018, 01:59 PM | #38 | |
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Funny, funny dice.
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I DO have a d14 and d16. (I've never seen a d18 tho.) :-( Warm regards, Rick. |
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03-20-2018, 04:03 PM | #39 |
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Re: Blasphemous Polyhedral Weapons Table
I mean every, or at least pretty much every weapon: there might be the occasional oddball exception. I mean that if the Roman army is going to issue every soldier with a gladius then that should kind of make sense, even if some characters have ST 10 and some have ST 14, and that the character with ST 14 should be more effective (in practice, do more damage) even though both of them are using a gladius. And that this principle should apply to basically every weapon, with a suggested extensive list of weapons given here. Including crossbows, though why you thought I was talking about them specifically I'm not sure.
Obviously this is house rule rewrite territory, not "let's talk Steve into putting this in the new edition of TFT". |
03-20-2018, 04:40 PM | #40 | |
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Therefore, trying to follow your reasoning, I sought clarification so I could follow you point accurately. Though it does raise the question regarding reflex-curve bows, and the ST of the user who physically pulls the bow-string, and how fully they can pull it; and what the reduction from maximum delivered damage would be, if actuated by someone who does not meet the ST minimum for that bow. JK Last edited by Jim Kane; 03-20-2018 at 05:49 PM. |
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