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<blockquote data-quote="Voranzovin" data-source="post: 9546357" data-attributes="member: 7020495">Sure, there are differences in presentation, although personally I'd chalk part of that up to Hollywood filmmakers just being really, really bad at making sword fights look good on screen. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😁" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :grin:" data-shortname=":grin:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> Even my beloved Errol Flynn movies are full of, you know, Flynning!But while the emphasis on unarmed combat is different, that's well within the remit of the Fighter now that we have an unarmed fighting style. The lack of armor is more of a problem, but that's something that's always irritated me about Dnd fighters. Conan and D'Artagnan need to be able to fight unarmored too! (And also, didn't Conan punch out a camel?)Catching a blade with your fingertips is something Bruce Lee characters can't do, which is why I'd put him on the Fighter side of the line, as an action hero with extraordinary skill who is still fundamentally mundane. All Fighters are martial artists, albeit from different traditions and styles--I don't see any reason why the differences in style between Hollywood and Hong Kong action choreography make the concept fundamentally different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voranzovin, post: 9546357, member: 7020495"] Sure, there are differences in presentation, although personally I'd chalk part of that up to Hollywood filmmakers just being really, really bad at making sword fights look good on screen. 😁 Even my beloved Errol Flynn movies are full of, you know, Flynning! But while the emphasis on unarmed combat is different, that's well within the remit of the Fighter now that we have an unarmed fighting style. The lack of armor is more of a problem, but that's something that's always irritated me about Dnd fighters. Conan and D'Artagnan need to be able to fight unarmored too! (And also, didn't Conan punch out a camel?) Catching a blade with your fingertips is something Bruce Lee characters can't do, which is why I'd put him on the Fighter side of the line, as an action hero with extraordinary skill who is still fundamentally mundane. All Fighters are martial artists, albeit from different traditions and styles--I don't see any reason why the differences in style between Hollywood and Hong Kong action choreography make the concept fundamentally different. [/QUOTE]

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