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Melee Academy: Shedding Grapples as a Striker

Over on the forums, a poster was asking about single use versions of skill and asked about Break Free, as an action after a grapple. Naturally Technical Grappling came up, and aesir23 pointed out that Break Free was a technique that could be bought up with Technique Mastery. Honestly, I’d forgotten about that. But it’s…

Tug of War Technical Grappling Style

Over on the SJG Forums, a question was asked about Tug of War. Seems like Technical Grappling can handle this pretty easily. First, combine all the Basic Lifts of all the characters on each side, using their Trained ST if they have any training in Tug-of-War specifically. I’d say use the Fast progression if you…

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Alternate Grappling: Damaging Takedowns

One of the core nifty bits of the Judo Throw in GURPS is that you can damage people with it. A damaging throw can be used to inflict (more or less) thrust-ish damage to a location of your choice. On the other hand, you can also use a grappling skill to obtain a joint lock,…