Here was a bit cut out of the upcoming GURPS: Technical Grappling. There are several reasons. It’s a grappling book, not a striking book I was using Size Modifier as a direct proxy for height. That’s wrong. First See Rule #1. I also found this excised portion of the rules terribly complicated, and we ditched…
GURPS Martial Arts has a neat little (highly optional) box on minute differences between melee weapons when it comes to various combat activities, such as Stop Hits, Feints, and Fast-Draw contests. There was a question that showed up from Landwalker over on the SJG Forums about combining ‘A Matter of Inches’ (Martial Arts, p. 110)…
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the SJG Forums about parrying unarmed attacks with weapons. It’s interesting for a bunch of reasons. GURPS Martial Arts has a bit to say on this subject, mostly in the text box appropriately titled Harsh Realism for Unarmed Fighters. GURPS Basic Set throws down on p. B376 and…