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Originally Posted by Erling
And by the way, am I correct assuming that resisting Joint Lock (to be more exact, avoiding it; ST and HT do matter when attacker tried to inflict injury via Joint Lock) has nothing to do with target's ST and depends only on his Parry score?
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Not quite.
You can parry an attempt to apply an arm lock; an Arm Lock is a flavor of grapple that requires a grapple as a prerequisite, but is simply an attack. So that's a parry.
You can also attack to break free of an arm lock. That's less likely due to applied CP, but possible. You may need to AoA and/or Telegraphic to overcome any penalties for CP, but that seems right to me. Then your STR will reduce the CP on the hold and break the lock.
Also, if you want to force your way out, you can use a Brute Parry (see Muscling It, p. 26), which bases your parry on ST. That's a very iffy rule, but I've had personal experience on this one on the receiving end.