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Originally Posted by DouglasCole
If one wants to give the Lumberjack the benefit of the doubt, call it Axe Sport or Axe Art, with the inherent -3 to combat abilities.
If not, you might want to give them 1pt in the Combat skill to represent that hs probably CAN swing the thing around better than one who's never held one before.
Otherwise, Prof Skill (Woodcutter) or (Lumberjack) or something, and he's out of luck for combat.
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I agree with Doug on this issue. If you treat the professional skill as being an "art form", ie not as good as the combat skills which include feinting and such, then it could work reasonably well. When was the last time you heard a lumberjack tell the tale of how he feinted his ax at the upper section of the tree trunk only to hit the lower section of the trunk?
If you get right down to it, whether you use "telegraphic blow" to gain a +4 bonus to hit, or an all out attack with no thought to defense to gain the +4 bonus to hit with your ax - you're still gaining a bonus against the tree to hit ;)
One has to wonder, if the stance required to strike a tree with one's ax in a safe manner, is by its very definition, one that is absent of any capability of defending ones self from an attack by an opponent, qualifying it as (by definition) an all out attack to begin with.