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Originally Posted by Galloglaich  Yes, that sounds more like what I'm talking about. I'll have to look that up. The key question is, would it be possible to do something like that with relatively simple rules? Could you do it in DnD? |
The thing is that that is a television series. It uses actual martial arts to create things beneficial to a television series, such as consistent and/or meaningful visual metaphors and fight scene choreography.
Not perfectly, of course. Actual Eastern martial arts do not shoot flame or freeze the rain into ice daggers. But what they take from them, at least in part, are moves that look like they might.
Playing a game of D&D, as long as it's say 4th edition instead of 12th, there is not much use for consistent visual metaphors and fight scene choreography. I'm not really sure that there is much use for anything, at least not to the degree that taking the time to study and appreciate actual Western martial arts would result in a net savings of time for all involved.
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