I know Kung Fu!

[ZazielsRephaim]

I was wondering if anyone has, as of yet, developed more intricate rules for methods of unarmed combat.  Or are we waiting for Riddle of Jade for that to come about?  This question came up when a player who I was teaching the combat system had been working with grappels, and wanted to do a grappel to disarm his opponent.  I ended up treating it as a grappel to pin, but ignored the other benifits from a succesfull pin.  The only benifit was knocking the weapon out of his opponents hand.  Perhaps spend an extra 2 CP to transfer the weapon to his own hand.  Perhaps.

-Luke

[Ben Lehman]

Sounds good to me.  Perhaps a margin of success of 3 or more gives the weapon in hand?

Also, you might consider opening the "counter" manuever to unarmed strikes.

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--Ben

[Ingenious]

Luke, you said that you used a modified grapple to pin move for the disarm didn't you? Did you do it via a setup grapple or a straight grapple?

Perhaps 1-3 successes means that the weapon is disarmed, and 4-5+ means that the weapon goes into his hand? This mirrors the success margin for the pin move.. I assume you did something close to that.

I think that this type of character should have more to him than a simple 'punch' and 'kick'.. since it is martial-arts based to a certain extent..

Perhaps a 'sweep' move would grant the same result as a hook.. being that it trips the opponent. Though should there be a knockdown roll?

Other in depth moves could be discussed with Nick and his martial-arts background can help you create new moves..target numbers, etc. And work with the new guy on it too, his input would be worthwhile.. since it IS his character.

That can be your secondary course of action, if this topic fails to produce results by game-time..

-Cory

[ZazielsRephaim]

Yeah, Nick will probably be our ingame martial arts consultant.

[Richard_Strey]

I'd have used the grapple to trap, not to pin. We spent last weekend doing a bit of disarms with Long Swords and from a gut feeling I say that a pure disarm would be "to trap". Most disarms I've done are very similar to the description in the book.