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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arcane Runes Press" data-source="post: 322406" data-attributes="member: 402">No worries on the questions. Questions are great, and to be expected- asking questions about a book is like taking a car for a test drive. As to your question, there are chunks of info in the book that touch upon that issue (notably some of the character concepts), but for the most part I avoided tackling that issue directly. There are two reasons why:1) 128 pages only go so far. When I first put finger to keyboard with the QM, I thought "How am I ever going to fill all this space?" Soon enough though, it became a question of "How am I ever going to fit all this stuff in this space?"2) This answer is related to 1. I had originally intended to include a section on directly merging East ( kung fu-isms) and West (default Euro fantasy), but I decided, after I started writing it, that the info I could provide would be too generic to be truly useful. It was a personal taste decision on my part. Looking over this thread, I'm impressed by the answers others have given to your question. Here's some other tidbits about the book:The tournament section includes descriptions, flavor rules and minor crunchy bits for boxing, pankration and Corno-Breton wrestling- all of which make for a great change of pace. Drop a Corno-Breton tourney into a local fair, add a few farm boys and a professional wrestler who wanders the local fair circuit, and you have a session's worth of entertainment. There are also some rules for Sumo, a Korean Sumo variant (similar to Corno-Breton) halfling table wrestling and an Orc game called Throw Horns, which is based off OLD school Mongolian wrestling.The Double Hammer stylist in the Alternative Fighting schools is a Western boxer, pure and simple. He hits like a medieval freight train. There's also a wrestling stylist that is very well suited to Pankration/Greco-Roman wrestling. There is also a Sumo variant (which I am particularly fond of), as well as 3 (?) more. The new weapons section includes brief flavor text with each weapon which actually describes how the weapon is used and what its forms (kata) are like. It isn't a comprehensive, in depth description, but I think that, given the exotic nature of so many martial arts weapons, it will be a welcome surprise for players and DMs. I mean, honestly, I've studied martial arts for years, and I had NO idea what a siangham even WAS, let alone how my characters would fight with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There's both a Lion Dancer PrC and rules for lion dancing. I've never quite understood why there hasn't been any mention of lion dancing in a D20 book before now, as it's a huge part of Chinese culture and kung-fu movies. Anyway, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. Just be nice- my ego bruises easily. On the plus side though, it is truly massive <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Patrick Y.</blockquote>

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