(Seren Monk Committee): Estarra says, "Roark is best to answer specific questions on kata."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "I can't remember what questions I had now ."

(Seren Monk Committee): You say, "You asked about combos."

(Seren Monk Committee): You say, "And parrying."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Oh yeah."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Whether they can be parried, and how many attacks per round they're looking at."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Is basically what I'm after."

(Seren Monk Committee): Sarrasri says, "Yah."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "No parrying as of yet."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Per round is difficult."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Want me to give a rundown on how combat works?"

(Seren Monk Committee): Sarrasri says, "Sure."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Please, I know the basics that it's wounds affecting damage."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "This is very high level. There are some things like how wounding and DEX play in that don't impact per round attacks."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "So you have 4 limbs."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "But one foot must stay on the groudn for obvious reasons. (And no, please don't mention winged creatures.)"

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "So this means you have three attacking limbs."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Each one attacks independently."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Wings don't work like that, newton's laws make too much trouble."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "So for example in your left arm you could grapple someone to incapacitate him while you use your right arm ald right leg to punch and kick someone else."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "The amount of limb balance you consume depends on how many limbs are off balance."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "If you use up all three limbs, the last two will be slower than the first. So you get penalized for doing that."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "But there are kata forms."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "In theory, any ka attack can be included in a form."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "At least everyone we have designed so far can. "

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "A form is a set of attacks you want to fire at the same time, up to one for each free limv."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Ok, sounds interesting."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "The form can also have modifications to it. For example, you could put a FAST modification on it or a STUN modification, depending on which skills you have to modify forms."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "The point of forms is that you string then together."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "You must select 2 or more forms (though a form can repeat) to do in a row."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Because you have studied the forms so well, you do not have that balance penalty described before."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "And in addition you get a speed bonus for each form taht fires after the first. They will go half the time as the initial form."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "This does sound quite powerful, but without knowing the effects can't say for sure."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "The up side is speed. The downside is you cannot target multiple people. In addition, you are stuck doing that form until it ends and cannot easily change direction. We will probably have a verb to break a form but with a balance penalty."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "There are limits to how much you can pack into a form series, but that's too detailed for your question."

(Seren Monk Committee): Estarra says, "So does that answer your question on its similarities to achaea monks, laysus?"

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Here we go."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Yeah, thanks."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Right now it's 2 seconds outside of forms for a limb attack. You get a +2 second penalty for each other limb off balance. So your last attack would take 6 seconds."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "I believe the plan for forms is 4 seconds on the first and 2 second for each following form."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "I guessed there was going to be the basic one, which is three seperate limbs for attacking (two arms and a leg, usually), but was curious how far it went from that."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Another twist is that your DEX will determine the limb wounding damage you do. The wound level of a body part will determine how much HP damage you do (in addition to STR). So more DEX means more wounding damage, which means more HP damage. It also helps you compliment a warrior for obvious reasons."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "So I take it that weapons for specs are planned to be one handed for all guilds, to maintain the three attacks?"

(Seren Monk Committee): Estarra says, "Depends. We were thinking of a 2handed thing for mag."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Haven't thought that far. My hope is that holding a weapon you specialize in will not impact your ability to do things with that arm, but I have not asked Estarra what she thinks."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "Oh I misunderstood the question."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "You could still have two handed weapons and have three attacks."

(Seren Monk Committee): Roark says, "The kung fu masters in the movies always use the bo staff to hit two people with each end."

(Seren Monk Committee): Laysus (from the Aetherways) says, "Hm, true."

Too abuseable as an escape skill. Activate when you are in a fight you know you aren't going to win (Forren appears) and teleport nexus, run, or snort spores. Org conglut ftw?

I wish they would reconsider the idea of having one punch and two kicks while keeping one hand planted on the ground.

Or more simply, things that would be a bit too powerful if you could do two at once. Sleep, for instance.

IDEA: You cannot attack the same person with both legs. You can however, attack person A with your left leg, person B with your right leg.

Monks should be Low Magic. The skill fits with finding your Inner Chi, I can't seem them using High Magic.

so, the monks will have the Abundant Step feat?