xirr2000 Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Can you apply the STR bonus to Disarm to yourself if someone is trying to disarm you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? When you have to disarm the wife, nothing can help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_CCHKK Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? When you have to disarm the wife' date=' nothing can help you. [/quote'] Marital Arts is one of my all time most favoritist typos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenixcrest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? And yet the question remains... Does anybody dare build a character who specializes in the Marital Arts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_CCHKK Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? And yet the question remains... Does anybody dare build a character who specializes in the Marital Arts? Vibron? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Raven Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? Can you apply the STR bonus to Disarm to yourself if someone is trying to disarm you? Typos asside... Technically, yes and no. As a standard rule, no. But there is an optional rule either in FREd or in UMA that says that a character than has the Martial Disarm maneuver whould get to use that extra STR to protect himself from other disarms. The reasoning is that otherwise fencers would do nothing but disarm each other all the time, where that just doesn't happen in real life or in fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Raven Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? When you have to disarm the wife' date=' nothing can help you. [/quote'] Well, there's a specialized laywer in my neighborhood that could help, but he wants a $2500 retainer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEmerged Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? This is an optional rule dating back to at least Ninja HERO. I've used it for some time; doesn't come up as often as you might think but seems to work rather well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Descant Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? I like the idea of it working both ways. Although I had another really silly idea... Since a true MA would know what to watch for, and this is WHY the Disarm maneuver could help prevent disarming, give a PER or other Combat skill roll with appropriate + to it for any character with Disarm. You make the roll, you saw it coming, you keep your weapon. Kinda like Complimentary skill rolling, in a way. You roll your Conversation, you get Persuasion bonuses... that kind of thing. Sorry if I ramble or overcomplicate. Just another option in a system with many... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? Isn't that Dr. Ruth? This is my response to Fenixcrest's queston about specializing in the marital arts, btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? Typos asside... Technically, yes and no. As a standard rule, no. But there is an optional rule either in FREd or in UMA that says that a character than has the Martial Disarm maneuver whould get to use that extra STR to protect himself from other disarms. The reasoning is that otherwise fencers would do nothing but disarm each other all the time, where that just doesn't happen in real life or in fiction. If you're talking about sport fencing, I doubt most fencers would make a habit of disarming their opponents in every match. I haven't fenced in a while, but I think the referee would halt the action at that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Raven Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? If you're talking about sport fencing' date=' I doubt most fencers would make a habit of disarming their opponents in every match. I haven't fenced in a while, but I think the referee would halt the action at that point.[/quote'] Well, no, sport fencing doesn't much happen in the movies or comics, at least compaired to the swashbuckling antics as seen in the Princess Bride. Thinking of how I think it would work (simulating the movies), you would as a default get extra STR from a Martial Disarm to defend against Disarm attempts, but an attacker can always attempt a feint (as per UMA) to catch their opponent off guard, in which case they would only get the Casual STR (without Martial Disarm STR added) to defend against it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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