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#Dedicated Skill Training Methods (專用技能 修行法) — Section Index

Contents

⚠ Adherence to core principle: the core 04-07-dedicated.md states that "dedicated skills are by default not subject to schools." This section is designed as a system of training methods (修行法) that are not schools.

#Identity

The 6 core dedicated skills (Fighting Spirit · Speed · Hardiness · Stratagem · Bearing · Fortune) are special skills in 1:1 correspondence with attributes, and by core principle the founding of new schools is prohibited. However, following the core convention that "if a special transmission is needed, it can be handled by class techniques, Renown Titles, oni-relics, or individual scenario rules," this section newly establishes training methods (修行法) as that extension system.

Training methods do not have the gate/Licensed/secret-art system of schools. Instead they are composed of personal cultivation · the prerequisite of Master stage or above · culture-of-setting backgrounds · narrative limited effects.

#Design Goals

  • 6 dedicated skills × 3~5 training methods each = 18~30 training methods.
  • Core constraints of each training method:
  • Approach condition: holds Master (4 points) or above in the relevant dedicated skill
  • Effect: a narrative · limited benefit within a bound that does not unlock Saint (5 points, Tatsujin-only)
  • Stacking: applies only 1 with existing class techniques, Renown Titles, and oni-relics (balance safeguard)
  • Training-method types (a classification separate from schools):
  • Personal Transmission (一子相傳) — 1 to 1 master-to-disciple transmission
  • Self-Taught Cultivation (獨學修養) — solitary self-honing
  • Oral Mind-Method (口傳心法) — small-group oral transmission
  • Foreign Training (異國修行) — overseas traditions

Target counts by dedicated skill:

  • Fighting Spirit (鬪志, maps to Courage): 4~5 types — Zen seated meditation · Bushido · Stoicism · Viking berserker mind-method · Sufi asceticism
  • Speed (速度, maps to Finesse): 3~4 types — Lightness Skill mind-method · shrinking-the-earth method · fast breathing method · running meditation
  • Hardiness (剛健, maps to Physique): 4~5 types — Adamantine Body · desert asceticism · northern endurance · fasting training · martial-arts conditioning
  • Stratagem (策略, maps to Wisdom): 3~4 types — Sun Tzu mind-method · perusal of the military classics · shogi · Islamic mathematical meditation
  • Bearing (風格, maps to Presence): 3~4 types — tea ceremony · court etiquette · oratory mind-method · Sufi whirling
  • Fortune (天運, maps to Fate): 3~4 types — I Ching · tarot · astrology · North American indigenous vision quest (Hanblecheyapi)

#§ This Section's File List

#Reference Documents

Core required:

1st expansion:

Inside this expansion:

#§ Scent — The Same Breath, A Different Name

Mount Qingcheng. Before dawn. A single old Daoist sat cross-legged atop a cliff, regulating his breath. Inhale, hold, exhale, hold. Four segments of equal length made one breath. The Daoist counting-the-breath contemplation (數息觀) — decades of cultivation condensed into a single breath.

All his life the Daoist made every decision of his life through this one breath. One breath was himself.

At that same hour, on a plain on the far side of the earth. A single Dakota youth was finishing the last night of his vision quest (Hanblecheyapi). A rite of staying atop a mountain for three days without food or water to meet his own spirit. He was now about to descend the mountain.

For three days the youth heard nothing but his own breath. Inhale, hold, exhale, hold. When his breath matched the wind of the plain, the spirit came — the spirit of a single bison. The youth accepted that spirit as part of his own name.

What he had mastered was Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka — the same secret of drawing out one more segment within a single breath.

Neither the Daoist nor the youth had ever met the other. A different era, a different continent, a different faith. Yet both knew the same secret. The method of stretching one's breath one segment further. The Daoist called it the Dao (道); the Dakota called it Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka. The same breath, a different name.

A training method is not a school. A school teaches and transmits. A training method is the result of one body facing itself for a lifetime. Two who arrive at the same result recognize each other — even without ever meeting.

This section's 21 training methods are all such breaths. Daoist breathing, Indian visions, desert asceticism, northern endurance, Persian rites, European fasting — a different name, the same cadence.

"A gate stands by transmission; cultivation stands by one person. Though there be a hundred masters, cultivation is alone."