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Melee Academy: Shedding Grapples as a Striker

Over on the forums, a poster was asking about single use versions of skill and asked about Break Free, as an action after a grapple. Naturally Technical Grappling came up, and aesir23 pointed out that Break Free was a technique that could be bought up with Technique Mastery. Honestly, I’d forgotten about that. But it’s…

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Making your own Luck – Soldier and Tactics

One thing that appeared in GURPS Martial Arts (by +Peter V. Dell’Orto and +Sean Punch ) is the concept of the tactics-based ‘reroll.’ Martial Arts, the Basic Set, Monster Hunters, Impulse Buys Found on p. 60, under the skill description for Tactics, it presents a few different ways Tactics can help you. There’s an abstract option where the leaders…

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Scaling DR Revisited

When I talked about scaling DR by Tech Level, or perhaps simply showing diminishing returns, I drew a comment by +Michael Wolf that brought up some new thoughts.  There’s Nothing About Point-Buy That Isn’t Meta On the one hand, he called it too meta. I disagree with this characterization, because assigning point values to things is about as…