01-12-2018, 08:07 AM | #21 | |
Doctor of GURPS Ballistics
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Lakeville, MN
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Re: [TG] A grapple is mutual?
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Honestly, what I would do in a different world is request to make and sell a new edition, updating the entire book mostly for STYLE (I'm a better writer now than when I originally wrote the book) and presentation format. Plus there are some simplifications and improvements that five years of play have suggested, we now have a Dungeon Fantasy game that could benefit from a unified grappling system, etc. I'll take a look and see what Steven and Sean think, but honestly I doubt it's worth SJG's while for a book that sold maybe 500 copies total.
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01-12-2018, 08:32 AM | #22 | |
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brighton
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Re: [TG] A grapple is mutual?
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A grabs B's Torso with both hands. B Grabs one of A's arms with both hands with no location penalty (as a prelude to a joint lock) If A wants to specifically break free of B's grapple on his arm he'll have to disengage that arm from it's own gapple to A's torso, and attempt to break free (or maybe try and shift his grip and/or get more CPs and have enough to win the joint lock QC) It's just the suggestion you just made seemingly removes Break free as a thing (why would you ever specifically do it when you can just grapple more and allocated the CP as either positive CPs for you or negative CPs for your opponent). Which wouldn't matter apart for the fact that currently part of breaking free is that you have to disengage any location your trying to break free with which tends to automatically weaken your own Grapple. I.e before If I wanted to break free of you grappling my arm which I'm using to grapple you, I have to stop using that arm to grapple you (thus reducing my grapple/CP on you) But with your suggestion it would seem that I can now not only keep that arm grappling you but grapple more with it in order to break free of your grapple of it? That said I always had the option to grapple more and try and get more CP and active control Not saying this is a bad thing, but just checking that this is how it would work? (I may have misread or miss applied it though) That all said I do see how this suggestion fits in with CPs being a balance that shifts between grapplers Last edited by Tomsdad; 01-12-2018 at 10:09 AM. |
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01-12-2018, 08:32 AM | #23 |
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brighton
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01-12-2018, 09:05 AM | #24 | |
Join Date: Dec 2012
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