Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Breaking Blow
 

Hurting Yourself (B379). A devastating unarmed blow to a hard object is liable to be unpleasant.

EDIT: However, that's not really a special problem with Breaking Blow, except that anything you hit with it will probably be hard enough to trigger Hurting Yourself.

Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Breaking Blow
 

Well, I suppose it doesn't explicitly say that Hurting Yourself doesn't apply to Breaking Blow, but does it need to? It does say that you suffer injury on a critical failure, or do you suppose that on a critical failure you are supposed to take [damage rolled]+[1/5 damage rolled (up to target's DR)]?

Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Breaking Blow
 

I usually just go with Forced Entry and allow its damage bonus to stack with Brawling/Karate/Weapon Master. I keep forgetting cinematic skills other than Power Blow and Throwing Art even exist.

Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Breaking Blow
 

Yes, it needs to say that if it means it. Saying you do take damage under one condition doesn't at all imply you don't take a different damage under a different condition.

Delivering both the Breaking Blow botch injury and any applicable Hurting Yourself injury on a critical failure would seem to be the most literal interpretation. But one could argue for just taking the injury specified by Breaking Blow in that case.

Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Breaking Blow
 

No 4e experience with it (and no one was surprised). Saw some use in 3e and at least when following the rules correctly, ended up being underwhelming. 4e rules... aren't that different it seems.

Regardless, I think I'd rather this was handled via buying the appropriate Advantage as a Chi based Power... though as I have never built such a character, that isn't exactly a compelling, time tested stance. XD

Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Breaking Blow
 

Breaking Blow is excellent for helping make high strength cost effective for people with superheroic point budgets.