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Consider me corrected!

As I recall, it was a more general "No frameworks in Multiforms", and I suspect it was to avoid some degenerate point shaving...

There's no reason you can't use it for ones where the armor is individually relatively simple. Its just that there's some serious by...

Its an optional rule, and like I said, its pretty weaksauce (same for its power stunting system). My guess would be that Steve Long or...

Well, then I'd say my understanding at the time was just wrong (or I'm misremembering how it went). But yeah, the excess...

Even without spikes per se, just the routine flanges and such were going to do that with a good swing. Maces were almost always...

It was based on an apocryphal story about the Bishop Otto wielding a club at the Battle of Hastings. As I recall, he was depicted thusly...

I'm just saying I can't say I ever saw someone reduce the cost of a Multiform or a VPP just because they thought the player wouldn't use...

Back in the day the late Scott Bennie ran a competition between supers (both hero and villain) in one of his Gestalts campaigns that was...

Tell people running Champions back in the day that. :)

All I can say is I saw a number of people using GURPS back in the day, and apparently none of them noticed that. I wonder if it ever...

That apparently originated from some odd real-world historical situation, but I've long since forgotten the details.

I do like the solution in TORG Eternity better, though you couldn't really transplant it as is without taking the whole system. In TORG...

That would make sense as skill-splitting is often a syndrome of people very knowledgeable about a subject who can't or won't step back...

That tends to make most people building a power suit type not likely to use it though; it tends to make you into a one-weapon-system...