Martial Arts: Cycling Through Stances

Greg 1 · 10-20-2021, 02:54 AM

Often, cinematic martial artists do something I'm going to call "cycling through stances", where they go through a series of mini-styles within the larger style.

For example, in Drunken Master (1978), Jackie Chan learns the "Eight Drunken Gods" style, and in a fight, will adopt the stance of each God in turn. So he might start fighting in the stance of "Li, the a drunken cripple with a powerful right leg" and when he's not winning the fight that way, he'll move on to the stance of "Fat Han holds the pot" and so on.

How would you represent this in GURPS?

10-20-2021, 02:54 AM	#1
Greg 1 Join Date: Feb 2007	Martial Arts: Cycling Through Stances Often, cinematic martial artists do something I'm going to call "cycling through stances", where they go through a series of mini-styles within the larger style. For example, in Drunken Master (1978), Jackie Chan learns the "Eight Drunken Gods" style, and in a fight, will adopt the stance of each God in turn. So he might start fighting in the stance of "Li, the a drunken cripple with a powerful right leg" and when he's not winning the fight that way, he'll move on to the stance of "Fat Han holds the pot" and so on. How would you represent this in GURPS? __________________ GURPS Settings Beneath Castle Everglory: A Dungeon, Lineage (Modern Fantasy) Paradise City (Cyberpunk), The World of Kung Fu (Modern Martial Arts Setting)