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<blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 3486144" data-attributes="member: 4275"><p><strong>Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts:</strong> the Bible; read it, know it, love it. </p><p><strong>Secrets of the Samurai:</strong> the best book BY FAR on combat in Ancient Japan. It's safe to say this one book, which is not highly known, cut my research time on Legends of the Samurai by half. </p><p>This book was an especially welcome change since most books about the period talk about the Samurai historically, or as a cultural institution. All fine and good, but more books on Feudal Japan need to make with the Kurosawa-kicking like this one.</p><p><strong>Ultimate Martial Arts Encyclopedia (Best of Kung Fu Magazine)</strong>: Not sure I cited a single article here, but a lot of really interesting reading. </p><p><strong>Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe</strong>: A really terrific book on European formal combat training. No, Knights didn't just bash each other. The only thing keeping this book from being on par with Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts is the <em>incredibly</em> dry, dull, dense academic writing style. </p><p><strong>Deadly Hands of Kung Fu</strong>: And no, I am not kidding. Martial arts comics and martial arts articles? A book for kids illustrating how to do thigh kicks?!?!? The PTA would *SO* sue a magazine like this out of existence today. Thank God for the 70's. Parents were too stoned to notice what we were up to. </p><p><strong>Iron Fist, Shang Chi Master of Kung Fu, Power Man/Iron Fist</strong>: Still not kidding. While these books weren't "helpful" per se, without them Blood and Fists wouldn't exist. </p><p><strong>Martial Arts Hero (3rd edition), GURPs Martial Arts</strong>: Not sources, more inspiration on the level of comparison. These were the books I judged B&F against as I was writing it, and the books I most wanted my book to be a d20 version of. </p><p><strong>Oriental Adventures, 1st edition</strong>: Yeah, it was a horrendous mash-up. And yes, the martial arts rules were horribly, horribly broken. But at least it attempted to emulate real martial arts styles, something later editions shied away from, for reasons that really escape me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vigilance, post: 3486144, member: 4275"] [B]Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts:[/B] the Bible; read it, know it, love it. [B]Secrets of the Samurai:[/B] the best book BY FAR on combat in Ancient Japan. It's safe to say this one book, which is not highly known, cut my research time on Legends of the Samurai by half. This book was an especially welcome change since most books about the period talk about the Samurai historically, or as a cultural institution. All fine and good, but more books on Feudal Japan need to make with the Kurosawa-kicking like this one. [B]Ultimate Martial Arts Encyclopedia (Best of Kung Fu Magazine)[/B]: Not sure I cited a single article here, but a lot of really interesting reading. [B]Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe[/B]: A really terrific book on European formal combat training. No, Knights didn't just bash each other. The only thing keeping this book from being on par with Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts is the [I]incredibly[/I] dry, dull, dense academic writing style. [B]Deadly Hands of Kung Fu[/B]: And no, I am not kidding. Martial arts comics and martial arts articles? A book for kids illustrating how to do thigh kicks?!?!? The PTA would *SO* sue a magazine like this out of existence today. Thank God for the 70's. Parents were too stoned to notice what we were up to. [B]Iron Fist, Shang Chi Master of Kung Fu, Power Man/Iron Fist[/B]: Still not kidding. While these books weren't "helpful" per se, without them Blood and Fists wouldn't exist. [B]Martial Arts Hero (3rd edition), GURPs Martial Arts[/B]: Not sources, more inspiration on the level of comparison. These were the books I judged B&F against as I was writing it, and the books I most wanted my book to be a d20 version of. [B]Oriental Adventures, 1st edition[/B]: Yeah, it was a horrendous mash-up. And yes, the martial arts rules were horribly, horribly broken. But at least it attempted to emulate real martial arts styles, something later editions shied away from, for reasons that really escape me. [/QUOTE]
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