Need help with closest RMA term for a concept...

Jonathan_Kaplan · Post by **Jonathan_Kaplan** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:40 pm

Hi there, I'm making a little piece of writing for a (pen and paper) roleplaying game, and I noticed some things about RMA fighting...

Mostly, that the things with the coolest names, a good chunk of the named moves and such, are 'interrupt' based. That is, they conceptually happen right as, right before, or right after an enemy makes an attack.

With the roleplaying game system I am working on, there is a limited number of times in any given [short period of time] that you can make such interrupts. What I am looking for is an RMA term (preferably from the school of German Longsword Fencing) that has to do with the conceptual space of:

"taking more martially sound actions in a given period of time than your opponent; being able to react appropriately to more changes in the flow of combat at any given period of time."

In other words, I'm looking for a fun sounding term to describe getting more of these interrupts / counterattacks to use in any given block of time.

So far, I have already managed to translate "Cutting Aside", "Master Cuts", "Pressing Through", "Displacement", and "Garden Hoe" into the gaming system; what I am looking for is a great name for a 'capstone' ability that lets the character use these other things more often.

Thanks!

Stacy Clifford · Post by **Stacy Clifford** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:24 am

Actions that interrupt or disrupt another action are performed in des. It's one of the three times along with vor (before) and nach (after), but it does not mean the same thing as "simultaneous" since that does not require perception and intent to disrupt, and attacking in des does.

Jonathan_Kaplan · Post by **Jonathan_Kaplan** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:19 am

Okay... is there a term or phrase or concept that has to do with the broad-based ability and competency of a particular person to make snap decisions in a fight and do several martially sound things in a short period of time?

Stacy Clifford · Post by **Stacy Clifford** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:16 pm

No special terms that I can recall offhand. "Skilled in the Art" says it pretty well.

Andrew F Ulrich · Post by **Andrew F Ulrich** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:31 pm

I would categorize a pre-emptive strike as striking in the vor. The blow struck in the "vor" would be the "vorschlag". You could view this as sort of interrupting.

Acting right after is basically acting in the nach. The after-blow is the "nachschlag".

The ability to act "in des" in order to react quickly depends on the ability to feel one's opponent, which is called "fuhlen".