On Swords, Blades and the Song of Swords

Icelander · 10-01-2012, 03:55 PM

Under GURPS rules, a heavy saber like the dao is not tremendously useful. While a sw+2 cut damage is nice and all, being Parry 0U means that it's no better for defence than an axe and it's a lot more expensive than one.

On the theory that a trained swordsman can use a dao for both attack and defence, I have the following Perk, available as a Style Perk for any style teaching the dao or a similar weapon.

Weapon Control† [New]
You are adept in controlling your unbalanced weapon and avoiding over-commitment in your attacks. When using an Unbalanced weapon, you may remove the U tag from the thrust attack mode of your weapon, if any. You may also elect to make a swinging attack at -1 damage that ignores the U tag of your weapon.
You must specialise by Weapon, such as Weapon Control (Dao) or Weapon Control (Large Falchion). This Perk is only available for weapons approved by the GM, generally only unbalanced swords. At the GM's option, it might also be available for dueling polearms, axes and impact weapons, but in that case it is recommended that it only works with Fine (Balanced) versions of such weapons.

What do forumites think of it? Overpowered? Badly worded? Needs something more or less?

10-01-2012, 03:55 PM	#12
Icelander Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Iceland*	Heavy sabers (dao) and a Perk to help them Under GURPS rules, a heavy saber like the dao is not tremendously useful. While a sw+2 cut damage is nice and all, being Parry 0U means that it's no better for defence than an axe and it's a lot more expensive than one. On the theory that a trained swordsman can use a dao for both attack and defence, I have the following Perk, available as a Style Perk for any style teaching the dao or a similar weapon. Weapon Control† [New] You are adept in controlling your unbalanced weapon and avoiding over-commitment in your attacks. When using an Unbalanced weapon, you may remove the U tag from the thrust attack mode of your weapon, if any. You may also elect to make a swinging attack at -1 damage that ignores the U tag of your weapon. You must specialise by Weapon, such as Weapon Control (Dao) or Weapon Control (Large Falchion). This Perk is only available for weapons approved by the GM, generally only unbalanced swords. At the GM's option, it might also be available for dueling polearms, axes and impact weapons, but in that case it is recommended that it only works with Fine (Balanced) versions of such weapons. What do forumites think of it? Overpowered? Badly worded? Needs something more or less? __________________ Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela!