How many scars should a martial have?
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How many scars should a martial have?
How many scars should a martial have?
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None, a good swordsman doesn't get hit.
>He doesn't get hit while becoming a good swordsman
Your skin is pristine and unblemished.
Ideally, they should be more scar than not, both within and without
I was looking for something like this. Might actually use this. Thanks anon.
If you get cut in a swordfight, you're probably dead.
So, logically, a skilled swordsman shouldn't have any scars.
"There's one - look at the scars on his face!" "The man for us is the one who gave him that face."
Only value a scar has is if it comes with a story.
This story reminded me that there is a cards against humanity card and all it says is "Crab."
>he's too poor to afford magical healing
Magical healing leaves magical scarring. Which attracts the fae. Do you want fae? Because that's how you get fae!
This is like the negligent discharge copypasta.
>negligent discharge
Careful, that's how I became a father
Yes.
None physically. A few emotionally/mentally. No man willingly chooses to hit shit in a world where magic exists.
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>How many scars should a martial have?
None. The best dragonslayers have flawless bodies. The second-best dragonslayers are dead.
It's like asking "how many times should a free climber fall from the top of a cliff?" the answer is zero. You either execute perfectly, or die.
Nah. If your dragonslayers are flawless then your dragons are worthless shits that can't fight.
>too careful when he wields his weapon
lmfao what the frick
Man, you guys are morons. What kind of life of adventure doesn't produce SOME kind of scar SOMEWHERE?
But... what if this "scarless swordsman" is simply *that* good? A natural-born swordsman, trained from birth to be the perfect blade dancer, who's challenged & defeated a hundred duelists without ever suffering a single scratch, CUZ HE GUUUUD?! Huh? What then? Is there like a silly challenge to prove his worth? And if there isn't, he'll just walk up to you and slap your shit? Well?
Natural 20s still hit and still crit, so he'll have taken at least some damage and thus have a scar, unless he has barely ever fought.
Then that's a gay uppity anime mary sue character who needs to be slapped down hard.
>uh you're too good at fighting so we need to beat you, at fighting
That's just every wuxia novel's plot.
Within the context of that quote (Project Moon) it makes more sense, since everyone is a coked up cyber-augmented chimpanzee with a machete (because the government thinks ranged weapons ruin the sanctity of murder) and the only magic healing I can remember is prohibitively expensive and produced by one company with a patent on it. If you have no scars after years of cyberpunk bum fights, you're either the world's most powerful bum or a b***h.
The answer for other settings depends on how good the healing options are, magic or otherwise.
>because the government thinks ranged weapons ruin the sanctity of murder.
What the frick? That feels moronic. Wouldn't people just use guns behind their back? Contraband or smuggling?
You COULD, but you'll have to hide from their surveillance network and from their taxmen cyborgs coked up on technology that might as well be magic.
Guns aren't necessarily *illegal* either, they're just taxed very heavily because of that same reason. If you're rich or willing to take huge financial risks you can have all the guns you want. There's a group of mercenaries who use guns and basically make sure to go for one shot kills because otherwise the bullet costs get too heavy. Some people also figure out loopholes (like shaping psychic energy into something that technically isn't a gun even if it acts like one in every meaningful way) for this and the other schizophrenic legislations the Head passes
>stupid thing is justified by even more stupid justification
Many such cases
The real world's greatest martial artists never get knocked out in real life, so obviously the best swordsmen would never get cut.
The only part of a warrior that should be unscarred is the back.
Not true but I agree with the sentiment. A warrior's back should only be scarred by wounds that pierce all the way through them.
>He has never survived an ambush
Low-tier trash.
Fair enough, though I could just as easily say shit reflexes lmao
Picture of a dude with swords going right through you think backs should be unscarred? (Even if the guy in pic is dead, others could have suffered through and through wounds.)
There are wrap around weapons, hooked weapons, trick shot arrows, grappling with knives. If you're going to accept that a warrior can have scars at all then it's pretty arbitrary to exclude the back.
Then again, unless playing a chaste character you're all forgetting the scratch marks a warrior should have from some vigorous amorous encounters.
cringe anime bullshit
A few
scars are lessons
If you have too many you're either a moron or had a terrible teacher
>in a world with healing magic
none
>in a world without healing magic
just light ones, every deep wound would be incapacitating or killing.
Now for the casters: Roll a percentile to see how much of your face did melt while learning Acid Arrow.
My martial has no scars because he was just some lower noble son from a big city who had some basic combat training for self-defense and then got in over his head the first time he left that city.
Dueling scars were actually a fashion on the continent for some time (and have come back in illegal German fight clubs even in recent times). The irony being that these were sought after and usually deliberately worsened in treatment so they'd be more remarkable. They didn't actually signify anything except that you let someone cut your face.
I feel like most scars professional men-at-arms had were from deep wounds from piercing weapons and not your usual cinematic and superficial "sexy slash over the eye" scars. Maybe lost fingers or somesuch if arms are not well protected. Would be interesting to see descriptions from the relevant time periods though, I can't imagine Greeks and Romans not having leg scars for example.
Why do people insist on using the word inane all the time, usually incorrectly? Is it that attractive a word to use?