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Estro said:
The obvious alternative, given that martial arts here are "making an artefact of your body" are just to... not have martial art "artefacts" for the armed styles, and just to use melee/relevant skill as the determination as usual.
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Or make the MA an artifact, but not an artifact weapon. There are other kinds of artifacts in Exalted.
 
BossFight said:
Oh yeah, I completely forgot martial arts had form weapons. I honestly wouldn't let them stack. In the same way you have to choose which of your Daiklave's to use when attacking, I would make you choose whether to use your artifact spear's abilities or your martial arts abilities. The in universe reason being... IDK, the artifact is not designed to channel the power essence flows of martial arts?
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Not just martial arts built around a specific weapons, but even just using weapons alongside martial arts (say, white reaper style with a spear). The ideas that Martial arts in exalted are trying to evoke aren't limited to unarmed combat, so it feels a bit odd for this rework to seemingly be pretty laser focused on that. I agree that straight stacking bonuses or something would be dumb, but if I'm reading things correctly the current structure just feels odd to me.
 
The funny thing is that 3e using a merit to enable you to buy MA charms means that it already does model being a martial artist very close to how it models artifacts (the artifact merit enables you to buy Evocations), to the point that you can compare them pretty directly. You have to buy dots in a new MA ability for additional styles, but the tradeoff is you don't need to buy the merit more than once the way you do with multiple artifacts.
 
Indeed.

IIRC, that was part of the logic behind my old proposal for how Martial Arts could work. Which I still like, actually; I think it addresses a number of minor issues in a simple and elegant way. Without making everyone buy the same ability over and over again!
 
I think that the specific 'Martial Arts as Artifacts' proposal takes it a little too literally. I'd be inclined to make Martial Arts more un-equipable perhaps with some punishment for having to suddenly re-equip it, or to make hot-swapping in combat impossible. This would have the justification that 'equipping' the Martial Art is more about taking on the proper stances and essence flows, rather than having your body literally reforged. Having multiple martial arts equipped would be possible, but follow the same rules as wielding multiple weapons/artifacts.

The other issues are that it ignores weapon-using Martial Arts, and also makes it so that there's no real reason a, say, Single Point Shining into the Void stylist would want a powerful Artifact sword, or a Righteous Devil stylist an artifact flamepiece. The first issue is easily solvable; make it so that Martial Arts can boost their form weapons as well as unarmed attacks. The second is harder, since letting stat boosts combine can easily break the game.

What I'd probably do is allow a player with both a Martial Art and an Artifact form weapon to do a training project (crafting a Martial Art) to create a variant Martial Art that takes advantage of having said Artifact. This would have the story justification that Artifacts are different enough that you can't combine them with Martial Arts, and on the game level it would allow the new Martial Art to remove the combat bonuses and focus on the other aspects.
 
I'm pondering on what the Sun does in his free time now that he has retired. Something to do with all his mice is definitely on the list I'm sure.

 
That's because it's been embedded as an image but it's actually a video.
 
Today in Half out of context, one my players decided she wanted cops simping for her.

It's one of very few times in the last 22 or 23 sessions she's actually used seduction to solve a problem despite explicitly wanting to create an eclipse escort that seduces people to solve her problems. Another player that wanted to have a music master zenith has seduced people in more scenes than she has.

That is all.
 
I skimmed through it and I'm continually impressed by his need to make Lunars as dog shit as possible.
 
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