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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
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Long Arms gives +1/level SM to your arms. Stretching (limbs only) can vary limb length. etc. etc. Short arms reduces effective SM, etc. Martial Arts makes "Big Mouth" a 0 pt feature - if I make a human-sized creature with a crocodile head, with Big Mouth +5, you can attack its Jaw and Face hit locations at +5, BUT this crocodile-headed monstrosity would be able to bite, grapple, etc with its enormous jaws as if it were SM +5. Remember that the gold standard is humans, and apes have very small jaws in comparison to overall body size, and humans are the worst of the lot.
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Step 1: Seize victim by the back of the head and neck with your jaws. Step 2: lift partly or completely off the ground. Step 3: Vigorously jerk your head back and forth, causing the victims body to "flail" around. The resulting injury is sort of "reverse whiplash". Instead of having a fixed body, and a (relatively small) loose head bobbing back and forth, you have a small fixed head and a big body, and the leverage point is the creatures neck. That's a LOT of force concentrated in a very important area. Crunch. Same head movement when applied to a much larger victim results in "worrying" or "thrashing". On a shark, the saw edges on the sides of their teeth are sliced back and forth through the victims flesh, and they essentially cut a neat hunk out of the victim. On most mammals, relatively conical teeth help the predator keep a good grip on a hunk of flesh, and all the thrashing around and worrying rips a messy chunk out of the victim, or breaks a limb, or possibly twists the limb right off. This is a technique that is generally popular among predators with short thick necks and powerful shoulder muscles, along with strong jaws and either deeply rooted teeth, or quickly regrown teeth. It puts a LOT of stress on tooth roots, and the muscles are required to a) exert the force and b) protect the predator from getting his own whiplash.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Should a cat-person really be able to do Swing damage to someone with his mouth, if they are an equal or larger SM? I can see it if the jaws are really tough, really large, and built for that kind of thing -- but I can't see it on a cat person without a very large mouth, and I find it unlikely to be done with most conventional "anthro kitties". Maybe a hyena or wolf person, or a large dog, but a cat? They use their claws more than they do head muscles. That was my point; I wasn't imagining a terrier with a squirrel, but a "cat girl" and a human.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
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Assuming they don't thing their superior dex (and combat reflexes) can keep them un hit as they dace around you swiping with cat-fu claw swipes |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: New Jersey
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The Targeted Attacks are written up incorrectly. You must specify the kind of strike, not just the skill - and the order is reversed. So it's not:
Targeted Attack (Face / Karate) it's Targeted Attack (Karate Punch/Face). If you want them to use it for both punches and kicks, you need to list it (and learn it) separately. Also, Ground Guard isn't so useful a perk if you don't have a ground grappling skill; it's not a perk I can see many practitioners picking up. They'd spend 1 point for a +1 to grapple when both they and their opponent are on the ground, but 1 point in Wrestling would be better spent - you get vastly more for it. I'd suggest Rapid Retraction (Punch) might be very cat-like, if you are going for the housecat type rather than the big pouncer type. But with Sumo Wrestling and Wrench Limb and Neck Snap, it sounds more like a pouncer type.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Something would clear this right up for me, though: Are the techniques "optional"? Like, say, would I be choosing one technique OR another technique? If they aren't optional, I'd make the "neck snap (Bite)" technique more of a "lense" type thing, with an optional specialization in types of Cat Fu. Say, there's Housecat Fu and then Siberian Tiger Fu and the like.
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Sounds cool to me. I like the change.
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