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==Armor==
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==Proof-reading version 2009==
  
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I think our example character should have armor. This would lengthen the character generation and combat examples, but I think this is important enough to warrant the extra effort.
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Remove sections from the following list if they have been proofread since 1 January 2008. Add sections if they have been significantly changed since their last proofreading and need to be proofread again.
  
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:I am currently working on the Squawk RPG book, once the first rough draft is together I'll revisit MaM for this and other editorial enhancements. (I'm waiting for the rough draft to get done so I know what '''I''' need MaM to do.)[BFG]
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* Game Design
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** [[Mano a Mano:Abilities|Abilities]]: How good is this list? To what degree should a game need to customize it?
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*** Movement Abilities
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*** Combat Abilities
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*** Stealth and Detection Abilities
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*** Transportation Abilities
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*** Communication Abilities
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*** Other Abilities
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*** Disabilities
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** [[Mano a Mano:Equipment|Equipment]]: Make sure these lists are up to date and make sense. The new example template (human) should give us a solid point of reference.
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*** Equipment Lists
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*** Equipment CP
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*** Armor - example armor list
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*** Hand Weapons - example hand to hand weapon
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*** Missile Weapons - example long range weapon list
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* [[Mano a Mano:Character Creation|Character Creation]]
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** Description
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** Build
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** Character Abilities
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** Choosing Occupations
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** Character Equipment
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** Encumbrance and Movement
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** Extra CP
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** Make a Character - Character Generation Example
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*** Choose the Type of Character You Want to Make
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*** Dimensions, Modifiers and Abilities from the Template
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*** Natural Weapons
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*** Use the Remaining CP to Customize the Character
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*** Occupation and Equipment
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*** Movement, Encumbrance and Toughness
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* [[Mano a Mano:Action|Action]]
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** Damage
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*** Armor
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*** Stun, Damage and Toughness
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** Rounds
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** Movement
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** List of Actions
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*** Hand to Hand Attacks
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*** Thrown Weapon Attacks
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*** Archery and Marksmanship Actions
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*** Grappling Actions
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*** Other Actions
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** Attacking
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** Grappling
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** Archery and Marksmanship
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** Stance and Position
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** Mounted Combat
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** Combat Example
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* Character Development
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** [[Mano a Mano:Manufacturing and Modification|Manufacturing and Modification]]
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*** Maximum CP
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*** Surgery
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*** Make an Item - Equipment Generation Example
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*** Modify Weapon Example
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*** Artificial Character Example 
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*** Character Modification Example
  
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==Organization==
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==Mano a Mano 2009==
  
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I have re-ordered the sections on the [[Mano a Mano|Table of Contents]] and [[Mano a Mano:Complete System|Complete System on One Page]] to reflect this. The broad overview of Gameplay is still first, followed by Action, Character Development, Character Creation and finally Game Design. We will probably want to make further changes so that the system makes sense when presented in this order. We may even want to move the example Ability and Equipment lists into Character Creation or even Character Development. [SL]
 
  
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: Yeah, that's what I figured. Now it looks to me like perhaps even example occupations may need to be moved forward to at least character generation, and possibly into character development (since it's hard to imagine character development in MaM without the potential for new abilities, equipment, or occupations.) [BFG]
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===Character Points===
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* Remove all CP pools except for Template CP and Total CP. CP will be "spent" like money. During template and character generation CP can be tallied on scratch paper.
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* CP scales should be linear. Simpler CP rules will make it easier to calculate CP
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* Experience - whether measured in CP or smaller units - will not be on the character sheet.
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* Maximum speed, agility, power, toughness and ability levels are campaign-dependent in the same way that CP levels are campaign dependent. Ordinary people and starting characters might have a budget of 300 CP and maximum abilities 2 levels higher than their templates (i.e. expert level.) Once the game starts and characters start gaining experience (more CP) you might have a higher level limit of 3 or even 4. In a superhero game, starting characters might have a budget of 1000 CP and maximum abilities 4 levels higher than their templates. A superhero game might also raise speed, agility, toughness and power limits. In some games you might want starting characters to have specialized elite skills (keep CP limit modest but allow 3 ability levels above template) In other games you might want characters to be able to start off with a variety of limited skills (more CP but keep 2 ability level limit.)
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===Making and Equipping PCs===
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* If the consequences of disabilities are easily avoided, then they should not have a negative CP value. Players need the GMs permission to add disabilities which aren't built into the game's templates. Characters should not have more than two disabilities.
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* Characters can be male or female unless the template lists different options.
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* Characters can be youths, adults or old people within normal size variance. To make a small child character without changing the template, reduce the mass, length, health and power to less than the template's variance suggests.
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* The occupations rules say occupations can come with equipment. In character creation we can suggest starting occupations as a way to provide starting equipment.
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* In addition to equipment acquired by occupations and craftsmanship, we can also suggest that a game can have other ways to provide characters with equipment, like spending money and finding treasure.
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* The occupations example shows characters being awarded with a certain CP-worth of equipment. Instead we should say something like "in this example each item is worth it's CP value in small silver coins. The knight is rewarded with equipment whose value in coins equals the robber's CP."
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==Compact Characters==
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Some games will have some characters who only need a little bit of information instead of full character sheets. A common example is stock villains and monsters which only need combat stats and sometimes a few special qualities or abilities. There are at least two situations where having a compact representation of characters can be useful:
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# Battle-on-a-page where two facing pages of an RPG book contain everything a player or GM needs to play one side (the "NPC" side) of a battle. Sometimes this will only require a single character who fits on one page with a full character sheet. But if it involves more than 2 characters and the information that fits on their character sheets, then a full sized character sheet won't work.
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# Book-of-beasties which contains dozens of creatures which need to be playable. Most of these creatures won't have equipment or need any kind of character development. On the other hand you may want templates for each critter. A full character sheet would allow you to have a character and template together, and there may be very little difference between a template and a playable character anyway.
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{|
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| colspan="2" | One option is a scaled-down character sheet with unused equipment and damage sections trimmed from the bottom:
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|-
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| style="font-size:60%" |
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Name <u>Joe Human            </u> Age <u>adult </u> Sex <u> male </u> Template <u>human            </u>
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Occupation(s) _______________________________________________________________
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Carrying Capacity <u>  3  </u> kg  Mass  <u> 80/ 80</u> kg  (Dis)Abilities&Qualities  Mod
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Equipment Mass    <u>  0  </u> kg  Length <u>1.8/1.8</u> m  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Encumbrance      <u>  0  </u>    Type <u>    tall  </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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                            Var. <u>  medium  </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Ground Movement  <u>  4  </u> m                      ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Water Movement    <u>  0  </u> m  Speed    <u> 1 / 1 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Air Movement      <u>  0  </u> m  Agility  <u> 3 / 3 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Climbing Movement <u>  0  </u> m  Power    <u> 4 / 4 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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                            Toughness <u> 6 / 6 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Character Points <u>200/200</u>                      ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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                                                ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Equipment & Natural Defenses Modifiers&Features Mass Heft  Power  Cmb Cvr Abs
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<u>2 hands                    </u> <u>hand              </u> ____ ____ <u> 2 </u>-<u> 4 </u> <u> 0 </u> ___ ___
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<u>2 feet                      </u> <u>                  </u> ____ ____ <u> 2 </u>-<u> 4 </u> <u> 0 </u> ___ ___
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| style="font-size:60%" |
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Name <u>Barbarian            </u> Age <u>adult </u> Sex <u> male </u> Template <u>human            </u>
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Occupation(s) <u>barbarian                                                      </u>
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Carrying Capacity <u> 30  </u> kg  Mass  <u>100/ 80</u> kg  (Dis)Abilities&Qualities  Mod
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Equipment Mass    <u>  3  </u> kg  Length <u>1.8/1.8</u> m  <u>swordsmanship          </u> <u> 2/ 0</u>
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Encumbrance      <u>  0  </u>    Type <u>    tall  </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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                            Var. <u>  medium  </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Ground Movement  <u>  4  </u> m                      ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Water Movement    <u>  0  </u> m  Speed    <u> 1 / 1 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Air Movement      <u>  0  </u> m  Agility  <u> 3 / 3 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Climbing Movement <u>  0  </u> m  Power    <u> 8 / 4 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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                            Toughness <u>10 / 6 </u>  ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Character Points <u>252/200</u>                      ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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                                                ________________________ <u>  /  </u>
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Equipment & Natural Defenses Modifiers&Features Mass Heft  Power  Cmb Cvr Abs
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<u>2 hands                    </u> <u>hand              </u> ____ ____ <u> 4 </u>-<u> 8 </u> <u> 0 </u> ___ ___
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<u>2 feet                      </u> <u>                  </u> ____ ____ <u> 4 </u>-<u> 8 </u> <u> 0 </u> ___ ___
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<u>1 big sword                </u> <u>sharp, 2-handed  </u> <u>3 kg</u> <u>  7 </u> <u> 5 </u>-<u>10 </u> <u> 2 </u> ___ ___
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{|
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| colspan="2" | Another option is a compressed character sheet using abbreviations:
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N <u>Joe Human          </u> A <u>  </u> S <u>m </u> T <u>human        </u>
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O <u>                                              </u>
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CC <u>  3 </u> kg  Mas <u> 80/80 kg</u>  (Qua/Abi)lities  Mod
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EM <u>  0 </u> kg  Lng <u>1.8/1.8</u> m  <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Enc <u> 0 </u>    Typ <u>height </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Grd <u> 4 </u> m  Spd <u> 1 / 1 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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H2O <u> 0 </u> m  Agi <u> 3 / 3 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Air <u> 0 </u> m  Pwr <u> 4 / 4 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Clm <u> 0 </u> m  Tgh <u> 6 / 6 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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CP <u> 200/200 </u>              <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Equipment/ND Mod/Feature Mas Hft Pwr Cmb Cvr Abs
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<u>2 hands    </u> <u>hand      </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u> <u>2-4</u> <u> 0 </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u>
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<u>2 feet      </u> <u>          </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u> <u>2-4</u> <u> 0 </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u>
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N <u>Barbarian          </u> A <u>  </u> S <u>m </u> T <u>human        </u>
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O <u>barbarian                                    </u>
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CC <u> 30 </u> kg  Mas <u>100/80 kg</u>  (Qua/Abi)lities  Mod
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EM <u>  3 </u> kg  Lng <u>1.8/1.8</u> m  <u>swordsmanship  </u> <u> 2/0 </u>
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Enc <u> 0 </u>    Typ <u>height </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Grd <u> 4 </u> m  Spd <u> 1 / 1 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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H2O <u> 0 </u> m  Agi <u> 3 / 3 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Air <u> 0 </u> m  Pwr <u> 8 / 4 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Clm <u> 0 </u> m  Tgh <u>10 / 6 </u>    <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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CP <u> 252/200 </u>              <u>              </u> <u>  /  </u>
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Equipment/ND Mod/Feature Mas Hft Pwr Cmb Cvr Abs
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<u>2 hands    </u> <u>hand      </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u> <u>4-8</u> <u> 0 </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u>
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<u>2 feet      </u> <u>          </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u> <u>4-8</u> <u> 0 </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u>
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<u>1 big sword </u> <u>sharp 2hand</u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u> <u> 10</u> <u> 2 </u> <u>  </u> <u>  </u>
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{| style="width:65em"
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| colspan="2" | A third option is a short, minimal list of stats:
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| width="50%" valign="top" |
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:Joe Human, 80/80 kg, 1.8/1.8 m tall, 1/1 Spd, 3/3 Agi, 4/4 Pwr, 6/6 Tgh, 4 Grd, 200/200 CP, 2 hands (hand, 0 Cmb, 2-4 Pwr), 2 feet (0 Cmb, 2-4 Pwr)
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| width="50%" valign="top" |
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:Barbarian (human), 100/80 kg, 1.8/1.8 m tall, 1/1 Spd, 3/3 Agi, 8/4 Pwr, 10/6 Tgh, 4 Grd, 252/200 CP, 2/0 swordsmanship, 2 hands (hand, 0 Cmb, 4-8 Pwr), 2 feet (0 Cmb, 4-8 Pwr), 1 big sword (2-handed sharp, 2 Cmb, 7 Hft, 5-10 Pwr, 3 kg)
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==Editing Character Sheet==
 
==Editing Character Sheet==
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If you change the character sheet format when editing any of the following, you must update the others:  
 
If you change the character sheet format when editing any of the following, you must update the others:  
  
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* [[Mano a Mano:Character Sheet|Blank Character Sheet]]
 
* [[Mano a Mano:Example Template|Example Template]]
 
* [[Mano a Mano:Example Template|Example Template]]
 
* [[Mano a Mano:Example Character|Example Character]]
 
* [[Mano a Mano:Example Character|Example Character]]
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* '''Clone''' character sheet in the [[Mano a Mano:Combat Example|Combat Example]]!
 
  
 
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