Re: Parry
The most important way to improve parrying is the Combat Reflexes advantage, which costs 15 character points, but is superb value if the character gets into fights regularly. That gives +1 to Parry, Block and Dodge, plus a bunch of other smaller useful abilities.
It may seem that having your parry of 10 reduced to 9 by using a knife, and then bought back up to 10 with Combat Reflexes is making a lot of fuss about a minor difference. That would be true in a system that used d20, but GURPS's 3d6 creates a "bell curve" that makes differences of 1 much more important, especially in the region around 10.
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