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Old 08-04-2010, 08:52 AM   #37
Ulzgoroth
 
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Default Re: Basic Set Unarmed Combat boxing questions

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Originally Posted by Streacer View Post
Purely for the sake of being pedantic, I will retort that they are optional rules for imposing additional handedness penalties above and beyond the normal "-4 to skill" one would expect to see, rather than a straightforward clarification of the issue. So really, one can interpret this however they wish depending on their currently established opinion.
No, there's no way anyone looking at the rules in question could draw that conclusion if they paid attention to the text. The very beginning of the Harsh Realism for Unarmed Fighters box is: "The Basic Set treats unarmed combat favorably: there's no "off" hand,...."
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