Cinematic martial arts (like D&D monks) could be handled by making a special magical art. You'd still use your Brawling and Wrestling skills to take people down, but the spells of this art would boost you.
You'd generally either want to cast a scene-long boost or do a "cast & strike" where you cast a one-off spell (like Super Punch) at the same time as you swing at someone. This art might well have special rules reducing or eliminating the normal penalties for trying to do that sort of thing.
Its effects would cover all of the usual martial arts superhuman stuff... punches that shatter steel, super-jumps, innate armor, et cetera. But it wouldn't be able to boost or alter others except by touch and effects that work on other people would be secondary or tertiary.
Posted by Kiz at February 12, 2005 10:50 AMCommentsPost a comment