Exactly. I wish I'd known, I'd have downloaded them and put them on my external hard drive

It bothers me that there are so few in-universe articles about unarmed martial arts in TES. In fact, there should be more of them in RPG games as a whole since, if you ask me, martial arts can shed light and provide a rather unique perspective on in-game cultures.

Therefore I have decided that I’m just gonna make one myself, lol

Oblivion had mods to do martial arts in combat; and I think they had an un-armed skill line that could be developed. I liked the un-armed in Fallout 3 really well.

Morrowind had an unarmed (hand-to-hand) skill, and an unarmoured skill. My Vampirella character did both.

Oblivion dropped the unarmoured, but kept hand-to hand. Not using armour wasn't a show-stopper, and several of my characters managed fine without any, by having enough offence. You could also enchant clothing for shield if you needed to do so.

Skyrim dropped hand-to-hand too, mostly, but mods brought it back. However, they tended to use gauntlet weapons, instead of bare fists, so that there would be an inventory item to which they could attach offensive enchantments. I ran Munchkin and a Smurf or two using one of those.

So it's possible, sort of. You may have problems trying to make bare-fist/foot/etc. viable in Skyrim, with no skill tree or item to enchant.

The other weapon that morphed was the staff. In Morrowind you could hit with one, in Oblivion and Skyrim it was only a magic channel.

Lol guys, I must have misworded my intent. I’m not talking about martial arts gameplay in TES, I’m talking about in-universe books about martial arts (that goes into depth about techniques and such, mind you) and how the lack of them motivated me to write my own. LOL

Yeah like you would expect a lot of Khajiiti writings on the subject.

I know, right? I wanna know what Falling Sand, Two-Moons-Dance etc, are all about.

What about "The Way of the Exposed Palm?"


https://www.imperial-library.info/content/way-exposed-palm




Two Moons Dance:


Master Zoaraym's Tale

https://www.imperial-library.info/content/m...r-zoarayms-tale






This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 5 2018, 05:56 PM

The gradual elimination of physical unarmed combat from the game reflects an intentional move towards its opposite, so references to what's missing would have been avoided. Anything in there will be old, and probably from the Morrowind books - many of which came over from Daggerfall, anyway.

ESO is at the point where fighting with sword and board is mostly spell-casting, and the physical side is an afterthought, or just a conduit for the magical. But you still can't cast a spell "by hand". You need a weapon or staff first.

Nightblades can cast by hand with no weapons equipped for things like ranged absorb health (Siphoning Class skill line). It isn't like the Templar jabby thing where a weapon appears in your hand if you cast (or like the Fighters Guild crossbow which just appears in your hand) = the animation is your hand just stretching out and and the spell leaving your fingers. Another is the "Reaper's Mark," it has a different animation, but no weapon appears for that either. The Templar has a fireball they toss that is a regular spell without a weapon too. So there are some, mostly in the Class skill lines that don't require (or add) weapons - but yeah, there are way more that pop a weapon into your hand when you cast them.

I really liked going unarmed in Fallout 3; and had a good roleplay for unarmed going on in Oblivion for a long time. I do miss having that option for my own game's sake.





This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 5 2018, 08:01 PM

I remember the photobucket thing. I deleted everything important before they did it.

As for projects, we're building a hopper for our pellets this weekend. 60x60cm and a meter high. Any bigger wouldn't fit right. Any taller and I can't fill.. 16kg(35lbs) bags are hard for me to lift.

Good luck


My project this weekend will be to reassemble my chainsaw

What kind of pellets? Like the ones rabbits eat?

Nah. Compressed sawdust for our furnace.

Oh, that is cool!

Uh Oh, that doesn't sound good! *Worried*

All good, just sore. But I didn't want to waste this opportunity to create a meme

Was it something boring like skydiving or something truly exciting like full contact ping pong?





(Heh, glad you're okay, )

I've tried to determine my 1RM* for deadlifting.

I'm rather confident I found it. I can tell because my legs were shaking when I pulled that bar up



*) that's "one repetition maximum", the highest weight you can do a lifting exercise exactly once with...