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Old 07-25-2022, 10:22 AM   #26
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Default Re: [Dungeon Fantasy] Non-East Asian inspirations for Martial Artists (and Ninja)

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Originally Posted by Michael Thayne View Post
One other thing that occurred to me is that in Dungeon Fantasy, Meditation is mandatory for Martial Artists. It's also mandatory for Shamans as defined in DF9. What if Martial Artists used Shamanic meditation techniques?
Making Martial Artists a type of shaman could work; they're imbued with powers by animal spirits, but they have to fight in ways that symbolically emulate the animals, which means lots of bare handed fighting and weapons chosen for aesthetic reasons.
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