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Remove CLAWS from Judo, Aikido, Eskrima and Biojutsu #75940

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Summary

Balance "Remove CLAWS from Judo, Aikido, Eskrima and Biojutsu"

Purpose of change

I can find no evidence that Judo, Aikido or Eskrima make use of claw weapons. It mostly seems like the last dregs of the "unarmed weapons" concept we have yet to shake off.

In the case of Bionic Combatives, I guess the logic is that if you know how to use bionic claws it's not a far leap to using bah nakh, but that sets a weird precedent. If someone introduces a bionic whip, should Bionic Combatives get access to all whips? I think it makes more sense to say that it only works with nionic weapons, period. It is after all programmed and implanted rather than developed and learned, so it makes sense that it has oddly strict limitations.

Describe the solution

Remove the "CLAWS" weapon category from the relevant martial arts.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I wouldn't be opposed to giving Judo and Aikido the bionic claws back if they were changed to work like mutated claws, i.e. integrated hand armor. That would be consistent with other claws and across all unarmed martial arts, not just a weird exception for these two specifically. Seems like a bit of a logistical challenge, though.

In the case of Bionic Combatives, taking the approach that similar weapons are allowed could work. If I had gone down that path, I would've created a PUNCH DAGGER weapon group including the punch dagger, razorbar katar etc. and added it to biojutsu. But again, I don't like setting the precedent that biojutsu gets to expand its repertoire into more and more mundane weapons whenever someone adds a new bionic melee weapon.

Testing

Loaded in game to make sure there were no major errors, checked that the MAs had lost the CLAWS category.

Additional context

This leaves Ninjutsu as the only martial art that uses CLAWS, because there's real-world precedent there.

@github-actions github-actions bot added [JSON] Changes (can be) made in JSON Martial Arts Arts, Techniques, weapons and anything touching martial arts. Game: Balance Balancing of (existing) in-game features. json-styled JSON lint passed, label assigned by github actions astyled astyled PR, label is assigned by github actions BasicBuildPassed This PR builds correctly, label assigned by github actions labels Aug 25, 2024
@Maleclypse Maleclypse merged commit bdbff1e into CleverRaven:master Aug 26, 2024
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@Terrorforge Terrorforge deleted the patch-16 branch August 26, 2024 09:29
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