Martial Arts and Claws

[Phil Masters]

By the Basic Set skill definitions, Brawling works fine with Claws, including the damage bonuses, but other unarmed skills don't. However, Martial Arts,, p.57, suggests that Karate should work with Claws.

By strong implication, though, Boxing still doesn't. I seem to recall this coming up somewhere when we were sorting out Martial Arts 2100. Basically, Boxing striking forms don't exploit claws very well. A race with claws will presumably tend to develop styles incorporating Karate rather than Boxing.

[aesir23]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

By strong implication, though, Boxing still doesn't. I seem to recall this coming up somewhere when we were sorting out Martial Arts 2100. Basically, Boxing striking forms don't exploit claws very well. A race with claws will presumably tend to develop styles incorporating Karate rather than Boxing.

Meh, this is needlessly non-generic. A race with claws only on their hands would likely develop a style that used something game-mechanically identical to boxing but took advantage of claws.