Dancing Crane Style

Cost: 4
Ability Type: Stance
Related Skill: Melee Combat
Prerequisites: Melee Combat 6, Snap Kick and Martial Sweep

This traditional martial arts style concentrates on performing elegant, well-balanced kicks and sweeps. Dancing Crane Style grants +1 AM to kicks, trips and sweeps, defences against sweeps and trips and martial parries against low attacks and eliminates any defence penalty incurred when one of your kick attacks is parried or guarded. In addition Dancing Crane gives a +3 bonus to Athletics checks to recover gracefully after performing a Flying Kick. Dancing Crane is not without drawbacks however, applying a -1 penalty to Intimidation checks, -2 to Initiative and a -1 AM to melee weapon, Punch, Headbutt or Knee attacks.