Talents & Martial Arts

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Infornific

At a minimum, DX 12 and skills in the 16-18 range. Selmy upon being retired from the King's Guard declares he could cut down all the men facing him if he wanted - boasting but there was a sense he could back it up.

He boasted he could defeat five seasoned knights like carving through a cake. Not only seasoned knights, the other knights of the Kingsguard, which even though standards had fallen down from the time when they truly where the best warriors out of a population of many, many millions, still included only fairly high skill fighters.

Given how GURPS makes it very hard to fight multiple foes, if he could even half-way back that boast up, we're not talking skill 16-18. We're talking enough skill to cut through multiple men with skill 14-16 like carving a cake.

At his best, he was a painter. A painter who only used red. If not using Weapon Master (which is probably unsuitable for games set in G.R.R. Martin's world), he needs skill in the middle-20s.