Those of you familiar with Secret Santicore might remember this post. The Five-Fold art of war is a martial arts system that builds on the back of an already existing system for patrons to give more martial inclined characters something similar. Yes, warriors and thieves can have patrons, in fact Lankhmar had excellent rules to make characters into patrons which warriors and thieves might get a little more mileage out of. My issue was always that while anyone can have a patron it's pretty obvious that a spellcaster is likely to get the most mileage out of one by nature of them usually granting spells.
Personally I love some martial arts madness in my rpg. for decades now my favorite class has always been the monk in any game that will allow me to play one. I have maybe 4 versions of the monk class in my folder, This one is my favorite because it feels like the early editions of D&D monk by having thief skills and random mystical abilities and limited advancement. There are other ways to do high flying kung fu rules in DCC, like the fantastic Kung Fu classics, which is more for emulating the kung fu movies I know more than a few of us grew up watching.
All that to say: I like martial arts and the rules from Secret Santicore are my favorite way of including them in DCC. This is one of my own martial arts made under those rules. I added some things, like an ability score adding to unarmored combat, affiliated deeds, and special rules. I'll admit I had a hard time getting this one finished, it basically is writing 4 spells and a bunch of other things. I ended up binging some of my favorite kung fu movies in the process for inspiration which certainly didn't help speed up the process. So here it is, for your enjoyment:
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