[Dungeon Fantasy] Non-East Asian inspirations for Martial Artists (and Ninja)

[martinl]

Originally Posted by tbone

"Gninja". Heh. : )

psst, tbone: go here
(edit) - tbone was the first person to comment on the original thread. lol (end edit)

Ob Mainthread:

The modern "unarmored, often unarmed badass" martial artist is at least in part due to folks who had to fight when fighting equipment was restricted. So they don't use armor and specialize in weapons that are also tools and outright unarmed combat. A reputation for being outright supernatural doesn't hurt either. (For genre reasons, we make this a more feasible strategy compared to weapons and armor than realism would dictate.)

If you want to justify this in your DF game (and to be clear, justifying anything in DF is optional) you can duplicate the above circumstances quite easily.