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Old 05-27-2017, 12:40 PM   #29
robkelk
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Default Re: Can you Parry a Bear?

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Originally Posted by mr beer View Post
It's clear from this thread that's it's more effective to bludgeon someone with a grizzly bear than simply have the bear attack them.
(Insert your favorite joke about the right to arm bears here, then riff off that joke to "bearing armed bears"... and so on, but this would probably be better done Elsewhere.)


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Originally Posted by Flyndaran View Post
Parry does not mean shield block but with a weapon. It's a bunch of different things that are conflated for ease of game play.

And unless your hand and wrist are literally tougher than metal, properly made blades will not break before you do except under very specific rare situations.
In real life, this is quite true. In GURPS, not so much.
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