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Old 01-21-2019, 03:43 PM   #11
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Thanks all, the challenging thing in GURPS isn't that you can't do something, it's finding where the rules tell you how to do it.
99% of what you need is all right there in Basic Campaigns.
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Old 01-21-2019, 04:35 PM   #12
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Nothing says all the movement has to be before the attack.
Even a step can be broken up, should you be so fast as to have a step longer than 1 hex. A character's "one" step might be hex - attack - hex, as well as hex - hex - attack or attack - hex - hex.
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Old 01-22-2019, 01:33 PM   #13
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If using Technical Grappling, I think you would have to do a Rapid Strike (-6 to both rolls) the 1st attack being a grapple and the 2nd being the "Pickup" technique.

Basic Set had something about 1 turn to pick up something less than your Basic Lift 1-handed, 2 turns to lift twice your baic lift 1-handed, and 3 turns to lift 8x your basic lift 2-handed. I'm not sure how that translates to the Pickup technique though.

Pickup talks about lifting things to "crouching" level, which sounds like less than "overhead" which is what I think the 1/2/4 rules were about, but I'm not sure how much that is exactly for bipeds, much less flying creatures or quadripeds.
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Old 01-22-2019, 04:35 PM   #14
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If using Technical Grappling,
Or if you happen to have Hall of Judgment, the "Grab and Go" option for After a Grapple was built with this in mind. It's not a pound-for-pound type of calculation, but it was designed to let flying creatures pick up prey as well as other more grounded activities.
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Old 01-22-2019, 05:13 PM   #15
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Or if you happen to have Hall of Judgment, the "Grab and Go" option for After a Grapple was built with this in mind. It's not a pound-for-pound type of calculation, but it was designed to let flying creatures pick up prey as well as other more grounded activities.
I do, have to read that section again, thanks!
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