Is parry calculated from base skill or effective skill?

[entitivity]

GURPS Campaigns is not clear on this point. Am I just being dense? I would assume base skill, but I'm not actually sure. For instance, consider a weapon of high quality that provides a bonus to hit. Does this bonus go into the parry calculation?

[Kaldrin]

Originally Posted by entitivity

GURPS Campaigns is not clear on this point. Am I just being dense? I would assume base skill, but I'm not actually sure. For instance, consider a weapon of high quality that provides a bonus to hit. Does this bonus go into the parry calculation?

I don't think your parry is affected directly by anything but penalties to the defense rolls (deceptive attacks, feints, footing, etc). I don't have any books with me so I can't check to verify.

[Kromm]

Parry is found from base skill.

[Incard]

I'm surprised. I would have thought that things like Weapon Bond and Fine Balance would improve your ability to parry.

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Incard

I'm surprised. I would have thought that things like Weapon Bond and Fine Balance would improve your ability to parry.

Weapon Bond in fact improves your base skill with a particular weapon; it isn't a bonus to hit. I'd let a balanced weapon work this way, too. It's situational modifiers and flat bonuses to hit that wouldn't matter; sorry I was unclear in my first post.

[rosignol]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Weapon Bond in fact improves your base skill with a particular weapon; it isn't a bonus to hit. I'd let a balanced weapon work this way, too. It's situational modifiers and flat bonuses to hit that wouldn't matter; sorry I was unclear in my first post.

So parrying with your off hand* would be at the base parry, without applying the -4 to skill (which would translate to a -2 to parry)?

Or am I confused?

*say, because your primary has been crippled or lopped off... thank goodness the mage knows Regenerate.

[SuedodeuS]

Originally Posted by rosignol

So parrying with your off hand* would be at the base parry, without applying the -4 to skill (which would translate to a -2 to parry)?

Or am I confused?

*say, because your primary has been crippled or lopped off... thank goodness the mage knows Regenerate.

The penalty for using your off-hand is one to Skill, not to chance to hit. As a result, you Parry at -2. Modifiers to Skill modify Parry, modifiers to chance to hit do not. It's something of an odd distinction, I suppose, but it works - taking a penalty for using a Deceptive Attack doesn't result in any Parry issues, for example.

[davidtmoore]

Isn't there a -2 to parrying off-hand in RAW?

I think most of the published Parry modifiers are set at half the equivalent Attack modifiers anyway, reflecting this.

[Kromm]

The point is that modifiers to attack rolls aren't just halved and called penalties to Parry. Actual skill modifiers for the wrong hand, Weapon Bond, etc. do work that way.