Martial Arts: Points vs. Ranks

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Whitewings

For purpose of this post, I'm assuming that putting one point each into each of a style's skills and techniques (not including optional or cinematic), and buying the Style Familiarity perk, is equivalent to first dan. So I'm thinking that, since these ranks are more than anything a measure of skill, each time the skills and techniques go up one level, that's another dan. When the techniques max out, then two levels in the skills equate to another dan. Does this sounds reasonable? In some fiction, boasting, including about one's ranking, is fairly common, and I want to connect it to the mechanics.

Ultimately this won't work well. It was attempted in the third edition martial arts book and didn't really work there either.

Belt ranks are only occasionally correlated with actual fighting ability or ability to win tournaments in sparring, forms, or whatever.

There are some BJJ schools where the requirement to advance a belt rank is to defeat all of those of lesser rank in class that day in a continuous grappling match.

Anyway, I'd not go here. If you MUST, look for a copy of the 3E version which did try and match skill with belt ranks.