[Martial Arts] Kickboxing as a skill

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Sigrif

And now, I have some questions about parries. MA123 gives some restrictions on those:
1) you parry only low-line attacks
2) you parry once per turn
3) you cannot retreat
Should I remove or ease some of those, or this is fair for this skill?

Eh, it depends on how cinematic you're being. Actually, I'd think you were being Anime as the example of what you were looking for is Sanji, the cook from One Piece. He suffers from none of these. Actually, I'd do him with regular Karate and a Vow: Fight only with your feet!

Still in other anime kick heavy martial artists don't suffer these limits (or soem regualr limits from MA). For example of this, Guy-sensei from Naruto teaches a "high" Jam and indeed seems to prefer it when parrying high kicks.

<shrug>I tend to think that a Hard Striking skill based on kicks only isn't very reasonable. So realistic martial artists won't find teachers who know it and would have to invent it themselves. Then they'd have to start with regular Karate ad discard 75% of its' moves.