The Ultimate Martial Artist is a comprehensive guide to martial arts from around the world - and beyond. Written and designed for use in any campaign, genre, time period, or setting, The Ultimate Martial Artist provides you with everything you need to create and play a master of the fighting arts. You can learn about and use real-world martial arts for your character, or even create your own styles and maneuvers!
The Ultimate Martial Artist includes: - Over 150 real-world martial arts styles and variants, and dozens of finctional styles - Over 130 different martial arts weapons - New martial arts combat maneuvers - Rules for creating your own martial arts maneuvers and styles - Dozens of martial arts special abilities - Expansions of the HERO System's hand-to-hand combat rules - Notes for use with Champions, Fantasy Hero and all other HERO System games - And more!
The Ultimate Martial Artistis usable as a stand-alone product, but does not include the HERO System rules, only discussions of how to apply those rules. For the rules themselves, you'll need theHERO System 5th Editioncore rulebook.