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"Their durations should be either One Scene, and they should cost"...Either one scene or...? Besides this little oddity, your Posture rules look good. - willows

Oop! Glad you caught that. The original text of that was "either One Scene or Until Abandoned", but I removed the latter, and forgot to revise the text. "Until Abandoned" seems to suit my intent better than One Scene, but the two would be functionally identical, I think, although "Until Abandoned" implies that it could be used as an indefinite effect, which is not my intent. - David.

As soon as you finish this, I will have a character attempt to learn the entire thing. ^_^ ~ Grandmasta

There's already a line. ;) - David.

Egad. Now that's something...
Now do one for Serenity, too. :)

- Falcon

You're funny :) - David.

Oh... but now I want to do something for Serenity... -- OhJames

Wow, I really love this style so much. Please finish ASAP Just to verify, it seems that fully learning the entire style and getting a meeting with Mars would require 33 charms? 6 charms in each substyle, the intro, the form and the pinnacle? Not including basic sid charms, correct? - Jaelra

Remember, grasshopper: the ox is slow, but the earth is patient. I'm working on it. :) To get a meeting with Mars and suchlike ... well, that's really the Storyteller's call, I'm intentionally leaving that kind of vague. If it were my game, though, it'd be very unlikely for anyone but a Chosen of Battles to meet with Mars, and even then the Exalt would need to master the Sidereal Archery, Brawl, Melee, Presence, and Resistance trees in addition to learning all 33 Charms from Fivefold Way of Battles. She might expect this master of warfare to also develop lots of Combos to really explore the depths of this power before she's willing to talk to him. Ultimately, though, the final reward for learning the 33 Charms is totally up to the ST. I'm not going to say one way or another what definitely will happen. - David.

Some updated thoughts: I'm changing the Form, obviously. Moxiane recommended minor benefits based on the Posture the character wears, but I've so far drawn a blank on what those benefits should actually be. I still love that idea, I'm just coming up short on ideas there. The TN-reduction is temporary, as I still have mixed feelings about Martial Arts manipulating TNs. I may make the TN-reduction an "easter egg" for Sidereals, with something else in place for other practitioners. I'm also considering a provision for reflexive Form activation, and I'm trying to find a less clumsy way to word the weapon compatibility. I may remove that altogether - it's quite unimportant. - David.

About the Form benefit - maybe something similar to Systematic Understanding of Everything & Methodology of Secrets, like: the character gets an apropriate temporary specialty in abilities thematically connected to the style. - Stanoje

Possibly. I'm still toying with some options - I might use something like that for some of the Posture-related benefits. (I've changed the nomenclature, as you probably noticed.) - David.