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Old 11-09-2014, 02:39 PM   #9
Peter V. Dell'Orto
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Default Re: [MA] Finger Lock - what's the point?

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin View Post
You study the Chin Na Style so you can stack Technique Mastery: Finger Lock on top of TM: Arm Lock. You do this because it is _cool_.
It's potentially effective, too, and fits all the stories of Chin Na mastery. Small Circle Jujitsu as well, at least the stories I kept reading.

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin View Post
This is the raison d'etre for many Techniques in Gurps.. Dumping more cp into the primary Skill almost always makes ore sense pointswise.
I hope you mean "putting points in them" not "Technique Mastery." Somehow I doubt it, though. I know some people belong to the "never buy any Techniques" school of character design.
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