Okay, okay, okay, I think the way Martial Arts works has made it through my thick skull.*
Let's say my Physical Adept as saved up her Karma for a rainy day and it is pouring outside.**
She spends 7 Karma and gets Karate. Since she bought a Martial Art style she gets a technique and she chooses Kick.
Where I was going wrong before was I thought that Karate was now a Specialization of her Unarmed Combat.
What I should do is write the Martial Arts and techniques she knows somewhere separate from her skills.
So she has:
Skills Martial Arts
Unarmed 7 Karate- Kick
She spends 5 more Karma and gets the Counter Strike technique
so now it's
Skills Martial Arts
Unarmed 7 Karate- Kick, Counter Strike
One of the (many) things confusing me was the reference that you could take a Martial Art as a Specialization. This confused me because I thought it already was.
So the adept decides to be really good at Karate and spends 7 Karma to specialize in it. So now we have:
Skills Martial Arts
Unarmed (Karate) 7 (+2) Karate- Kick, Counter Strike
and she gets +2 for all her Karate techniques.
She decides to spend the rest of her saved Karma to get Quarterstaff Fighting since she carries around a telescoping staff.
So she spends 7 Karma and get's the style and one technique. She now has:
Skills Martial Arts
Unarmed (Karate) 7 (+2) Karate- Kick, Counter Strike
Quarterstaff Fighting - Multiple Opponent Combat
She then goes to test out some of her new abilities on the shaman.
Is this right?
Is it close?
Please tell me it's at least close.
*'think' is the key word in that sentence.
** Actually it's a water elemental that the practical joker shaman summoned.