Re: New Skill mods.

[Greg Mowczko <mooch@ns1.cioe.com>]

> From: Wright Frazier <khelek>
>
> I have to disagree completely.
> 	Pummel, Wrestling, Immobilize, Dodging, Acrobatics, etc...
> 	all point to the Marines beingthe dominant unarmed combatants.
> 	i.e. martial artists.  Not warriors, not priests of t'or.
> 	Priests of t'or aboslutely rely on a weapon, and MUST have one.
> 	Also why Marine's have a 200base cost on grapple.

Warriors have the 200 Base grapple as well (which fits in my example below)

> As for warriors getting unarmed combat skills, I disagree again.
> 	Warriors use weapons.  Marines are 'skill/combat'.  Warriors
> 	are just combat.  This of course all depends on your view of
> 	warriors and marines.

Hey us warriors are sometimes caught unaware/weaponless so we need to handle
ourselves somewhat without the weapons.

	[comments about a Dan/Wright discussion on description were here]

> I think it was once said that marines are soldiers, and warriors are
> assassins.  I'm not sure I agree with this, I think its more of a
> difference between eastern and western warriors(at least to me).
> Warriors are more the european fighter types, plate, broad sword, lance,
> pike, etc...  The marine is more the eastern type, relies on speed and
> precision, wears light armor, etc...  Basically monks vs. knights.
> Then to flesh them out more and give them a purpose, they have ship
> skills.  Or if you want to think of it a different way, the 14th century
> knight vs. the 16th century fencer.  Same job, different ways of approaching
> the problem.

Erol Flynn vs. Kevin Sorbo ( but give him a sword ).

> In the Jarenian setting, warriors are the primary land based killers,
> they hack the poor SoB apart.  However with such a prevelance of ships,
> a damn useful fighting style would be something that will put the
> opponent down fast and quick and let you toss him over the side.  Gee,
> looks amazingly like what marines are now.  Good at grapple, can put
> people on their ass, can put them down for a considerable amount of
> time.
							Greg