Acrobatic Stand

Acrobatic Stand is an expansion to the Change Posture rules on MA98 (technique on MA65) of GURPS Martial Arts. It is used to adopt a Standing posture. Normally this requires a Step if someone is Kneeling or a Change Posture if someone is in any of the two other postures besides lying/kneeling: Crawling or Sitting.
For those two which normally require a Change Posture maneuver, success means they can do it in a Step instead, failure meaning they do a Change Posture as Normal (there is no reason to use an Acrobatic Stand while kneeling, since using a Step to stand is automatic)
For lying, success means they do a Change Posture but can go directly from lying > standing instead of requiring TWO as normal (when adopting the intermediate posture of either Crawling or Sitting) or requiring an added Step (if adopting the intermediate posture of kneeling).
Critical success for AS while lying means it works like crawling/sitting and can be done as a step too.
There's no benefit to a critical success for crawling/sitting acrobatic stands.
Critical failures do nothing if someone begins lying (they remain lying) but result in a fall of done by a crawler/sitter.
This is comparative to Fast-Draw which does the same thing for using Ready to draw a weapon.
MA83 specifies under Fighting While Seated that you get a +4 bonus if someone was sitting on a chair rather than the ground.
MA98 specifies you can also get another +4 by doing it "All-Out" to get a +4 Determined bonus.
Category:Techniques