[MA] Decompressing Historical Martial arts styles

[aesir23]

In GURPS Martial Arts, historical western martial arts are clumped together in large groups: Italian Rapier, Longsword, Sword and Buckler Play, etc.... This makes a lot of sense, considering just how many individual masters and manuals there were.

Historically (and in many modern HEMA clubs), students will learn the style taught by a specific master or in a specific manual. This forum is a place where people can break up these generalized styles to represent styles as taught historically.

The upshot of this is that, if you're setting a campaign in 17th century Italy, not every character will have the same Style.