Player Notes: Juuken

Things to note on Juuken's sheet:

• Front
  • You know two martial arts forms. You can only use one of them at a time. Water Dragon allows armor. Celestial Monkey normally doesn't allow armor, but you know its pinnacle charm (Celestial Godbody Understanding), which allows you to use the style with armor.
  • The trick is going to be weapons. Celestial Godbody Understanding also allows Celestial Monkey style to be used with any weapons. Water Dragon, however, can only use tiger claws. What this means is that if you use a weapon other than tiger claws, you cannot gain a benefit to attack or defend with it from a Water Dragon charm.
• Back
  • All of your artifacts are jade, with forced attunement. This means you get the jade bonus, but had to commit twice the motes to them. The effect is that you have a huge amount of peripheral essence tied up in these artifacts.
  • It is possible to attune to the artifacts without forcing the attunment. This prevents you from paying twice the cost, but doesn't provide the material bonus. In armor, Jade allows you to ignore fatigue value. In weapons, jade adds three to speed. So, you could reduce your commitment at the cost of subtracting 3 from the Speed listed on your sheet (Speed adds to initiative) and gaining a fatigue rating on your armor.
  • Another option is to forgo your sword. With forced attunement, it takes 10 motes to attune. Given the inability of using it with Water Dragon charms, that may not be worth it. If you like, you could exchange it for another two-dot artifact.