Thursday is GURPS-Day, and thanks to the digital format of e23 releases, there have been some fixes and tweaks to Technical Grappling. There were three that made it in: 1. (p. 7) The neck hit location has been formally made part of the head region, rather than belonging to both head and torso. The inclusion…
A while back I promised to go through the fight scene between Natasha Romanov (Black Widow) and a small army of mook guards from Iron Man 2, using Technical Grappling. Not a bad topic for my 200th post since Dec 26, 2012! The key fight takes place in about a minute, from roughly 0:20 in…
Over on the SJG Forums, I had a very productive interchange with Gef, a poster who wanted to know more about how grappling works using Technical Grappling, and asked for an introductory paragraph something like this: Grappling generally consists of an attack to establish a hold (which need not be an actual grasp), with a…