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As I have so often on this site I’m going to go at all this from the opposite direction and take the most basic and flavorless Martial Art in the book and give it some story and style....Let’s hear it for.....Classic Comic Book!!!! I’m going to rename this for the real world style Marine Corps Martial Arts Program or MCMAP. ************************************************************************* MCMAP is the style of mixed martial art taught during Marine Boot Camp training. It is a easy to learn mixture of Boxing, Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Krav Maga and other styles. The entirety of the form take only 40 hrs. of combat training to achieve basic competence. While higher levels of course take much longer to master. This style is the one taught to many Police and Security personnel around the country. It is a mix of both lethal and non-lethal maneuvers so that the Marine in the field has the options of incapacitating, killing or taking prisoners depending on the situation. This style has many videos of it in use during Marine Corps demonstrations on YouTube for a more dynamic example of this form in action. If anyone here has any disparaging remarks to make about how effective this M.A. could be, I would simply ask...How many of you would be willing to take on a Marine in a bar fight? P.S. In the Netflicks series The Punisher the character of Frank Castle (stuntman) uses MCMAP. It’s pretty badass.

Trash bag.

These two brought that summer rolling back. Playing 45’s and singing along. Paper Lace and Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods.

Cool.

No problem. Some players are the other side of the coin on this. They want to be “The Pro from Dover” as it says in Strike Force’s list of player types and sometimes they need to be shown that being a big fish in a very small pond isn’t as much fun as they might have thought. Teleporters, Speedsters, Acrobats, or any team that uses co-ordinated attacks to hit a number of times during the same phase. Any of these can be used to get around one brick guarding something. Is this player going to be in one of your games and you’re asking for advice or is more of an intellectual puzzle for you?

I agree that a GM working to negate a particular player because they’re inconvenient is a little too meta and wrong...But a tactically minded villain coming up with ways to incapacitate a hero or set of heroes is not only in character but a trope of the genre. Hell, Batman even did it to his own team! (It didn’t work out well.) If Capt. Invincible becomes a known problem for the bad guys then they will only naturally try to figure ways around him. The GM on the other hand should NEVER plot against a character just because they don’t like him. If they have a problem with a concept then they needed to cowboy up and say a firm NO when the idea was first presented.

Isn’t that a little like making a bread sandwich? Grown-ups who play with legos put them away after.....Neatly.....And often color coded.

No, sorry. This is the type of behavior a good woman puts a stop to. Usually by dragging the man off to a mall or a farmer’s market or something. Anyone with kids in the house knows that buying caltrops is unnecessary since you already have legos strewn about the house.

These men need to get laid.....Desperately.

I waited to see if anybody else was going to say it but the voices in my head won’t wait any longer..... Do you mean to say that I could have a character who would “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”? ****I’m very sorry, sometimes it’s not easy being me.****

I won’t bother going into a bunch of examples from my own playing days, but I’ve always thought that what kind of martial art a character would use is as much of a point about their personality as how they dress or speak or what kind of job they have. All these are possible ways to get into a characters mind for more detailed roleplay.

I used to play at M.I.T. and so did another person on here, M.I.T. Sasquatch. What years did he play and what’s his nickname or what games/what characters did he play?

Just starting to get the younger (4-6 year old) kids stopping here with their parents before it gets dark and rainy later tonight. Happy Halloween everybody!

I think Alex Ross should be on that list. Marvels, Kingdom Come, Astro City? That’s Hall of Fame stuff if ever there was some.

Prepare eggs, shaving cream and toilet paper! Be forewarned, these psychos may return fire using shotguns! “Clan Toriamos.” Bwah-ha-ha!

If you’re using the word “Hack” to include social engineering (like pickpocketing) than you’re right....but if you mean computer hacking, than I have a paper list of phone numbers in my wallet that begs to disagree. That’s basically what a cred stick is. A hard copy of information about an particular bank account. The best computer hacker in the world can’t beat a padlock. Different hardware, different skills.

That’s the way you wanna play? OK...EVERYBODY GETS A TOOTHBRUSH!!!

Really! ‘Cause according to the internet, I’m NOT a creepy old guy stalking college girls online......Hi there! I love your boots.

A ball & chain.....you mean like the one Absorbing man has and uses to smack Thor around? I would think twice about giving somebody like Sabertooth a heavy object close at hand to use as a weapon.

Shadowrun had “cred sticks”. (Probably swiped from Gibson) An amount was deposited in a bank and the account number and passwords were hard copied into the stick. It had to put physically into a cred slot to deliver a specified amount like a credit/gift card. No remote hacking could be done because the stick had no way to remote transmit or receive info.

🎼Daddy was a Polar bear....Wherever he laid his hat, it was fair...And when he died!...All he left us was his cares.🎶 With apologies to Motown.

It would make coffee suck either way, but now it wouldn’t be as much of a surprise or debate. “But I like the porky flavor. And I love my Pork Spice candle too! Freaks.

I hate to break the news to ‘ya......they’re ALL boozer holidays.

The latest posthumous winner of the Darwin Award. I discussed mucking around with baby bears in another thread.

Well now you tripped the “curious landmine”. What’s the 10% you didn’t care for? Not as an argument, just a fun discussion. BTW...Did you ever check out Byrne’s Batman/Captain America book? It’s set in W.W.II and the Joker and the Red Skull have joined forces. Very Neat-O!! A lot like Generations, very much the same mind set.