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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 899459" data-attributes="member: 4275">Gnome sent me an email offlist, he found the description of the rules for making your own styles confusing *cough*.In case anyone else is having the same problem, what follows is my response. <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=":)" />Hmmm. I will see what I can do about clearing that up in the official text. In the meantime, let me break it down for you here and see if I can clear it up for you. Zones of attack: if you have a zone included in a style, you are armed when making those attacks.  Combat Martial Arts already does this.  However, if you enter a style through Defensive Martial Arts, you are only armed in your zone, since DMA gives you no offensive ability on its own. Also, there are more zones than head, hand, and foot, there is also feinting, disarming, grappling and tripping.  Again if you have a zone, you are armed when making these attacks.  In the case of feinting, you also feint as a move, instead of an attack action. If you have proficiency in a zone from multiple areas- say CMA and TaeKwonDo, or TaeKwonDo and Hapkido, you gain a one-time competence bonus of +1 to hit. Hard, Soft, Internal, and External just determine what abilities can modify the attacks.  If you want Wisdom to modify attacks, the style must be Internal.  If you want Dexterity or Strength, it must be External.  Hard and Extrnal, Soft and Internal, are basically different terms for the same thing. Adaptive Styles can use every maneuver in the book.  Non-adaptive Styles can only use a maneuver if they are listed in that maneuver's prerequisites. Aesthetic Styles have acces to Ki, and some of the general feats like Poise.  If you have a non-aesthetic style as your only martial arts style, you cant learn any Ki abilities. I hope this helps. <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=":)" />I will eventually do an official clean up of wording. <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=":)" /> Chuck</blockquote>

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