Re: [dq-rules] Re: The CWT Draft

[Rodger Thorm <dqn@earthlink.net>]

I have some thoughts on the rest of this, which I will try to address this weekend, but as to the weapons cross-use rules (yes, that was a rule that was in PBA), once we have an accepted CWT, then some of those rules from PBA (and the cross use rule in particular) should be revised in consideration of the new weapons table and then put to the same evaluation.

Edi, take a look at the iai-jutsu rule in PBA, and make your list of which weapons should be covered; I'll make mine and then we can compare.

Poor Brendan's Almanac has been out there for a while, but I've heard next to nothing about how it has been received, whether people actually use it, whether they think some parts are good but other parts stink, or otherwise.  I would like to bring some of those rules into the accepted canon-or-whatever we-are-going-to-call-it, and would like to get some feedback on them.  For now, let's deal with just the combat related ones.

  --Rodger Thorm


> 10)	A general point.  Someone, I forget who, devised a system for use
> of weapons you're not skilled in, so (for example) if you can use one
> B class sword you have a reasonable idea of how to use other B class
> swords.   This has become even more necessary now the sub-division of
> the weapons has become tighter

That was in PBA, I think, so it'd be Rodger Thorm's handiwork. I actually use those rules myself, as they make a lot of sense. I don't know what the standing of the PBA is with the community in general, but I've understood that it has rather wide acceptance.