One possible take on martial arts and "parry"

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Originally Posted by Nils_Lindeberg

What about the main thing? The Defend action with a possibility to attack back, but with a large penalty. And tie the UC system to that and lower the penalty?

And the second big change, allowing this with other weapons and not just unarmed? SO no longer a UC system but a Martial system in general.

-6 DX to attack while defending is intriguing.

The UC talents (new and old) already make a UC fighter harder to hit while not defending (in the new one, so far, "Evade" already kicks in at UC II). Maybe having the -6 DX option while defending is already good enough for them.