Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

I just checked Biting Mastery is nice but not the same thing.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Just Martial Arts.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

You might be limiting the search a bit too much - "Born Biters" is on p. 115 of Martial Arts, bottom right of the "Teeth" box.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

He doesnt have Martial Arts, not in his sig line.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Ah, you're right. Apologies, Otaku. I guess you were searching Power-Ups 2: Perks.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

S'okay; GURPS Martial Arts is on my Wishlist, I just haven't made a lot of progress on it myself for various reasons. ^^'

Does it? I'm really quickly glancing at the Hit-Location stuff on p. B398, where "jaw" is part of the "Face" Hit-Location. If this is something handled in more detail in other supplements, okay: feel free to give us a page reference when you have the chance. Otherwise, I'm really not sure how to handle it; I'd go with what you say by default because that seems to be the "safe" approach, but an Extra Mouth gets wonky. I mean, your real jaw is what it is because it is on your face. An Extra Mouth on your hand, in your torso, on a tail, etc. still probably has teeth, might have a tongue, but if it is located close to your brain you've probably got an Extra Head situation.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Jaw is a specific location in MA, and Born Biter interacts with it, so probably.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Yeah but for Pincers I would treat them as an arm or hand for hit location purposes. A creature like this probably has a modified hit location table anyway.

I have usually used Extra Arm with No Fine Manipulators for pincers and add claws if thy can do damage. But the Extra Mouth idea has some merit, if only because its a simpler build.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Okay. So when someone has a chance, a page number would be really handy.

Just to test my understanding, the idea is that both your original and any Extra Mouths are assumed to be located in a manner where being hit in the Jaw will produce certain results, so an Extra Mouth somewhere else needs an equivalent drawback or else this acts as an Enhancement.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Yes, though looking at extra mouth, which explicitly permits 'anywhere on the body', makes me uncertain. Part of the problem is born biter, which has an explicit tradeoff of making the jaw and nose easier to hit, and without that would be an advantage instead of a 0p feature.