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Absolutely uncertain These dark fantasy paragraphs must be doing my mind in, I'm quite sure I couldn't find the point (or the need for the astonishingly defensive, flameproofing intro). One thing I will say is the IME teenage males swear like the mutant offspring of drill instructors and...

If you can see my kick coming then my hands aren't doing their job. BSCLF techniques are all taught in combination, with an emphasis on hiding techniques behind other techniques. Feinting, misdirection, timing etc. Of course, I've never used it in a street fight but the principles are sound...

Barsoomcore, if I lived in Canada I'd move to study under you. Your comments on this thread have impressed the hell out of me. There's a reason why people who fought for a living (founders of styles) set things a certain way and made them into forms. The forms are not (usually) a set of any old...

It is a play by Tom Stoppard. Several of us quote it religiously in our roleplaying group. "We're actors, we're the opposite of people." "Dark, isn't it?" "Not for night." "No, not for night." "Dark for day though." "We're going to England." "I don't believe it! "What, just a conspiracy of...

In BSCLF Master is the title of the guy who was the top student under the guy who was the top student under the guy....who founded the style. It's a title, like President of an Association. Everyone else is a student. If I wanted to claim to be a master of my style I'd have to be able to beat...

Life is: "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!" from the plays of William Shakespeare

Re: Double-weapons in general I find I can cope with a spiked chain mentally if I imagine that it's only got a spike (or mace head or similar) at each end and in between it's just a length of straight chain. There's a pair of sketches in an issue of Dragon for a minature called a "snakestrike...

The gyrspike has an historical counterpart. In medieval Japan exponents of the manriki-gusari (chain) often attached a chain to other weapons - hence the kusari gama (chain and sickle). THere is evidence of a chain and sword combo. Basically, it winds up being a one handed sword in one hand and...

Way to go! A friend of mine and I have a camera, some lights and a reflector. We're teaching ourselves to film and are hoping to have a short for Tropfest (Australian short film festival) by 2004. Best of success, tell us all how you work out. I'm one hundred percent with you on this one. The...

These feats are very frequently used in our campaign. Also Red Dwarf Devotee, Hitch Hikers Devotee and Princess Bride Master. One of the players has a wife who only comes along to listen to us quote, honestly.

Talking about a "best style" is the most fun when you factor in some of the unusual elements of history. Frex there was a karate champion who won an entire international tournament in the seventies by using one move, the side kick (I can't remember his name but he was a blonde guy who starred...

Amen to this. I guess this is kind of the same around the world at the moment, but here in Oz there's a huge "Brazillian jiu-jitsu beats everything" crusade going on. :rolleyes: An additional small piece of advice: if you don't want to learn to fight by just getting the crap kicked out of you...

I studied - and will return to - chow gar/buk sing choy lay fut. This is a southern style kung fu with a heavy northern shaolin influence (Buk Sil Lum). Lots of fun with circular punching and low kicking.

Boy, I have huge problem with your party's morality. Here's a couple of questions that you might want to put to them next time they jump some guys just "coz they detected evil." 1. Is execution the only punishment for evil? Is it Good to execute tax evaders? Poachers? Some guy who dipped a...

Tainted Kabuki: Your work is brilliant. As soon as I can scrape the cash together, expect some orders. Like wow.

I once had my pcs attacked by the ghost of a little girl that had been tortured to death. It lured them in with weeping like a lost child and then attacked. The ghost began life as an innocent child, and was a ghost only because of the suffering inflicted by her death, but it was still an evil...

I don't know if this will help exactly, since the end result is loss of character, but there's an argument that says, for a paladin, death is not the ultimate negative outcome. If your character dies doing the right thing, this is actually a highly positive outcome (yes, I know that the vast...

First: I was going to wade in against Silverthrone but then I realised that he was just in this to wind everyone up, so...to hell with that. Second: I'm one of those who came back to D&D because of 3e. I hadn't played D&D for over ten years but the new edition seemed to have made all of the...

Re: Monkey's Wishing staff You're showing my age too then.;) And yeah, the wishing staff is way cool

As a corrollary to my previous post - I should have made note that there is such a thing as "frontier justice" which amounts to a "hunt it down and kill it attitude". It's always possible for a paladin to be a part of such a philosophy. I don't want to get into a pointless (and tangential)...