Flying Triple Weapon Attack

[gilbertocarlos]

You use half Jumping skill for move, so, long distance jump is 15 feet, not yards, running he goes up to 30 feet, with flying jump it's 90 feet, 30y, not 54y.

For high jump, it's 44", little better than a meter or yard. Running you go to 88", 2.44y, or 2.23m. Flying jump will put him 7y from the ground.

[Balor Patch]

Originally Posted by Varyon

A Triple Weapon Attack should probably be built as a Combination, which does require all 3. Of course, already having the Dual Weapon Attack Technique should decrease the cost of the Combination, so if you go that route you'll have the DWA as its own separate deal, allowing you to use it at full skill without the Kiai.

As for the surprise, do note that, unless I'm mistaken, you are still restricted to Move yards/sec in a jump - meaning that even if he has a Move of 10, that jump's still taking over 5 seconds. That's a lot of time for his opponent to notice and react...

Very Fit works for lost FP, not spent FP, so no.

So a combination DWA + Kiai would add another [4]? Seems reasonable.

I did forget about the jump speed limit. It's the greater of max jump distance/5 or Move, so 10.8.

On Very Fit:

Originally Posted by Kromm

You always round FP costs (and most other things that are bad for the characters) up in GURPS. Half of 1 is still 1. You need at least 2 FP for a single action before Very Fit does a thing. The main job of Very Fit is to halve multi-point FP costs for things like exertion in armor.

I take that as saying it does apply to spent FP so that e.g. the 10 FP for Great Rage would become 5 FP. On the other hand, it does agree that FP spent in one Maneuver can't be aggragated before being divided. So you're right.

Originally Posted by gilbertocarlos

You use half Jumping skill for move, so, long distance jump is 15 feet, not yards, running he goes up to 30 feet, with flying jump it's 90 feet, 30y, not 54y.

For high jump, it's 44", little better than a meter or yard. Running you go to 88", 2.44y, or 2.23m. Flying jump will put him 7y from the ground.

I based it on this:
DF11:34 Chandelier Leap
"You may do the math on p. B352 or simply approximate: the better of Basic Move/4 or Jumping/8 yards, doubled out of combat or with a running start, or quadrupled for both."

As an approximation it does seem pretty loose.

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Balor Patch

So a combination DWA + Kiai would add another [4]? Seems reasonable.

A dual weapon 3-attack Combination costs [12] IIRC (full cost is equal to negated penalty - in this case -9 - plus number of attacks). You've paid for DWA with [5], so you've still got [7] to go, if allowing for this alternative interpretation (by RAW, you don't benefit from DWA in Combinations).

On the topic of alternative interpretation, if your character has WM/TbaM, DWA should probably drop to -3 (certainly it shouldn't be worse than a Rapid Strike) or maybe even -2, making it cost [4] or [3], while the Combination should be -6/-6/-6 or maybe even -5/-5/-5, meaning you've got [5] to go.

Originally Posted by Balor Patch

On Very Fit:

I take that as saying it does apply to spent FP so that e.g. the 10 FP for Great Rage would become 5 FP. On the other hand, it does agree that FP spent in one Maneuver can't be aggragated before being divided. So you're right.

Sounds like maybe you can halve your FP spent on Extra Effort, but I'd still say no to chi (which CL, FL, and Kiai fall under). RAW explicitly forbids Fit/Very Fit benefiting energy burned for psi and magic, so it's up to the GM if chi falls under that same blanket. I can certainly see justification for allowing it to do so, I just probably wouldn't.