Combat Art or Sport

This skill requires specialization

Combat Art or Sport skills are derived from combat skills and used in competition or performance. An actual combat skill, Combat Art, and Combat Sport all default to each other at -3.

Kromm Quotes

Sean Punch has commented on SKILL in the following posts to the SJG GURPS Forums:

• On the difference between combat skills and Combat Sport skills
• On defaults
• On the abstraction level involved
• Contrasted with Games skill
• On training for combat

See Also

• Stage Combat
• List of Skills

References

• Basic Set p. 184
• GURPS Fantasy p. 135 (use by aristocrats)
• GURPS Martial Arts pp. 55-56 (use of Combat Art or Sport skills in place of combat skills, or vice versa), p. 133 (untrained combatants)