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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6978572" data-attributes="member: 996">Fuedal warriors may have been very capable, but calling their approach 'students of the science of combat' is a stretch.&nbsp; That description better fits, say, fencing masters.&nbsp; Samurai might have gotten very philosophical about it (Book of 5 Rings &amp; all), but that doesn't imply the same thing.&nbsp; Besides, the side bar comes out and says they're not historically accurate, and what the mechanics support /is/ presumably somewhat indicative of what they were going for.&nbsp; The Knight is a protector, not a duelist.&nbsp; The Samurai is, well, a fanatic, it seems.&nbsp; The former might have been covered by the BM had there been more to it, but there isn't (it's really not exactly covered exhaustively by the Knight, more suggested by it).&nbsp; The latter might have, ironically, worked using re-skinned Barbarian mechanics, zanshin instead of rage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6978572, member: 996"] Fuedal warriors may have been very capable, but calling their approach 'students of the science of combat' is a stretch. That description better fits, say, fencing masters. Samurai might have gotten very philosophical about it (Book of 5 Rings & all), but that doesn't imply the same thing. Besides, the side bar comes out and says they're not historically accurate, and what the mechanics support /is/ presumably somewhat indicative of what they were going for. The Knight is a protector, not a duelist. The Samurai is, well, a fanatic, it seems. The former might have been covered by the BM had there been more to it, but there isn't (it's really not exactly covered exhaustively by the Knight, more suggested by it). The latter might have, ironically, worked using re-skinned Barbarian mechanics, [i]zanshin[/i] instead of rage. [/QUOTE]

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