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|style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="4" align="center"| '''Dralasite Martial Artist'''
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|'''STR/STA ''' ||65/55 ||'''PS'''|| +3
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|'''DEX/RS'''|| 55/65 ||'''IM'''|| +7
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|'''INT/LOG'''|| 40/40 ||'''Ranged'''|| 28
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||'''PER/LDR'''|| 40/40 ||'''Melee'''|| 33
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|style="background: #eeeeee;" colspan="4"|'''Special Abilities:'''<br/>
''Elasticity, Lie Detection 5%''
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|colspan="4"|'''Skills:''' ''(Military PSA)'' <br />
''Martial Arts 1, Melee Weapons 1''
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|style="background: #eeeeee;" colspan="4"|'''Equipment:'''<br />
''Electric Sword, Security Skeinsuit, 12 Cr''
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They have a low center of gravity, they’re strong,
they can take a beating, and they can form fists out
of the middle of their bodies to send an opponent
flying into next week...

==Character Concepts==

===The Way of the Warrior===
The first time you saw a Human practicing "martial
arts", you were fascinated and got an idea. Now,
using your ability to change your shape at your
whim, you forge entire new paths in the Way of the
Warrior.

You are creating your own art, carving your own
path, and hope to eventually master your own ideas
in order to teach others the same. You concentrate
on your physical strength and endurance, and focus
on your ability to shift your shape.

===The Undersport Champion===
You grew up on Triad, a heavily populated melting
pot of various cultures and people all striving to
compete for technology and industrial greatness.
Your family couldn’t afford the luxuries of many, and
so you lived in a poor section of a major city.

To supplement your family income, you began
participating in Undersport – a personal combat
arena game that takes place under the city in the
original outpost’s aqua-ducts now long unused.
Your prowess has earned you some level of fame.
After defeating the champion, you won enough
money to get off that planet and seek your fortune
elsewhere.

===The Visionary===
Most Dralasites are fun-loving and cheery – not you.
You take what you do very seriously, practicing for a
harmonious existence between body, mind, and
spirit.

The unusual makeup of the Dralasite physiology
disperses their genetic structure homogenously
throughout their rubbery amorphous bodies, and
you feel that is exactly as you should be with the
universe. You seek personal perfection, and believe
there is another level of existence, a transcendence,
that can be achieved through personal mastery.

===The Angry Blob===
You’re a hothead... always have been. Oh sure,
you’ll have a few drinks, tell a few jokes, check out
the ladies, and carouse with the best of ‘em. But
when someone makes you angry, you don’t simmer;
you boil. This seems to get you into a lot of trouble,
but in your opinion: it’s not you, it’s them.

So instead of working on your temper, you decided
to be practical and work on your fisticuff skills. You
actually found that you enjoy it a great deal, and
have taken the meditative steps recommended by
your teacher to help you with many other things in
your life. But closing your eyes, counting to ten,
and breathing in through your nose and out through
your mouth, doesn’t seem to help that much when
someone insults you... your fists start flying often
faster than even you realize it now.

===Protector of the Oppressed===
You were fat, very fat. After your father died of
health issues related to his obesity, and tired of
being called names and generally feeling unfit, you
needed to start working on your health. You signed
up for all kinds of diets and fitness routines and
nothing worked. Finally, you found Martial Arts, a
wonderful mixture of high and low impact aerobics.
Today you’re fit as a fiddle, and as a wonderful side
bonus, you learned to kick some serious butt!

You now like to stick up for the oppressed, the little
guy, in private triumph of your cause.
Remembering what it was like to be the fat little
guy, you champion those who need but will never
ask for it.

==Development==
Depending on the reasons for your martial arts
lifestyle, there can be several avenues of
development available for your character. Here are
some ideas.

===Developing Abilities===
Remember, increasing ability scores is slow but
rewarding. It only costs 1 experience point to raise
an ability score 1 point, so why not start working on
developing your body to supernatural levels? Get
that Punching Score up... and that Initiative
Modifier. No way to do that other than dumping
points into Strength and Reaction Speed.

And don’t forget your racial ability: Lie Detection. If
honed well enough, the referee might let you use it
at a penalty (half?) in order to detect when an
opponent is going to perform a feint or bluff on his
next maneuver, perhaps giving you an edge!

===Developing Skills===
The obvious thing to do is increase your Martial Arts
skill, as it increases both your chance to hit while
unarmed and the damage you cause (remember,
you add your Martial Arts level to the damage you
cause while punching or kicking!). But not every
concept should feel so boxed into a single
development path.

Purchasing levels of Environmentalist will give your
martial artist some stealth skills, to make him more
ninja-like. Thrown Weapons will allow the expert
throwing of knives.

If your campaign allows the use of the Mentalist
Primary Skill Area, you could work on increasing one
of your mental ability scores all the way up to 70 in
order to qualify, though this would be a long journey
with the statistics provided in this archetype.
Having the ability to mentally boost your physical
ability scores would fall right in line with several of
the character concept ideas provided here.

==Equipment==
When you can afford it, get your character a
skeinsuit. It will protect you from damage from a
ballistic/melee nature, which you find yourself in a
lot of the time. Picking up an albedo screen would
help keep you alive until you can get up close
enough to lay into someone in close combat.

The Electric Sword you begin with is great, but you
might want to consider upgrading to a Sonic Sword
as finances allow. Not only does it do more
damage, but it’s pretty small and concealable. Once
your skills are high enough to endure the twoweapon
and off-hand penalties, pick up a second
sonic sword... watch people run in fear!

And never underestimate the value of stimdose...
you might hurt later but taking a dose of it now
could keep you in the fight long enough to take care
of business!

==Edges and Flaws==
If you’re using this optional system, consider giving
your character an Edge associated with personal
combat. Here are some ideas:

===Edge: Surprisingly Quick===
This edge can be invoked to cause your opponent to
be surprised as per the normal rules. You’ll get a
free attack at him and he just didn’t see it coming.
You could use this in the middle of combat! Or use
it give yourself a +25 bonus to your next Reaction
Speed check... never know when that will save your
rubbery butt!

===Edge: Meditative Focus===
This edge could be invoked if your character has the
time to meditate... then his next action (whatever it
is he was meditating over) could benefit from a +25
bonus! If the referee allows, you might be able to
meditate yourself healthier... perhaps healing
double the normal healing rate for any day spent in
meditation and rest.

===Edge: Roll with the Punch===
This edge could be invoked to cancel the damage
just caused to you in melee combat. Your character
simply rolls with the punch, absorbing the inertial
force into his rubbery hide and stepping back a bit.

===Edge: Martial Arts Academy===
Either you belong to or run a school of martial arts.
It may be a lone school, or may exist in a network
of schools all teaching the same art. This provides a
source for allies, either by bringing along those from
your own school or by visiting schools on foreign
worlds. Invoke this edge to involve your school or
its students in your adventure.

===Flaw: Rival Academy===
The referee may invoke this flaw in order to force a
rival martial artist or school to get involved in your
adventure. Perhaps they have a different political
view than your own school. They may not want
your character dead, but they sure as heck want to
prove that their

<div style="float:right; border:thin solid black; background: #eeeeee;">
Thanks to AesirRaven for the suggestions and effort,
and for coming up with the stats for both the
Dralasite Martial Artist and the Vrusk Smuggler.</div>

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Terl obar at 19:57, 10 March 2010

Terl obar: Created page with '{| align="right" |- |style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="4" align="center"| '''Dralasite Martial Artist''' |- |'''STR/STA ''' ||65/55 ||'''PS'''|| +3 |- |'''DEX/RS''…'