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Old 12-11-2014, 06:03 PM   #56
Toptomcat
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Default Re: Unarmed vs. Knife

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It's just tough for me to visualize throwing a punch or a kick at a random target, but I suppose that is just real life intruding. You need a LOT of narrative grace (or a lot of suspension of disbelief) to explain how a front-snap kick or an uppercut hits an opponent's foot.
There are two things that can help you out here. First, rather than thinking of it as 'attack a random target', think of it as 'attacking whatever target presents itself'. Second, don't define the form of the attack any more concretely than you need to until *after* you roll for hit location. If a Kick hit the foot, then maybe it *wasn't* a front snap kick: an opening for a front snap kick didn't present itself. Instead, an opening for a low roundhouse presented itself, and you took it, chopping at the opponent's ankle. Uppercut itself is a special case, since the wording for the Technique explicitly limits it to upper-body hit locations.
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