09-15-2017, 04:45 PM | #11 |
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Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)
It wouldn't be GURPS if we didn't use a hundred words where ten would do. Logorhea seems ingrained in the system culture.
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09-15-2017, 04:48 PM | #12 |
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09-15-2017, 04:49 PM | #13 |
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Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)
That really only applies if the sentry is also a gentleman, and would a gentleman be on sentry duty?
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09-15-2017, 04:57 PM | #14 |
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09-15-2017, 05:09 PM | #16 | |
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What period are you talking of? The only time that could possibly apply was in parts of the eighteenth and nineteenth century when every one knew the war was just about some sordid quarrel over which province belonged to which dynasty; and so was less important then then the International Soldier's Union. In any case how do you do recon without skulking? If a gentleman can't do throatcutting neither should he be a jaeger.
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09-15-2017, 05:16 PM | #17 |
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Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)
The concept of gentleman is timeless and universal, of course (in reality, codes of proper behavior in warfare, gentlemen or otherwise, have mostly only worked when the banned behavior is not very effective, or the ban is beneficial to both sides).
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09-15-2017, 05:25 PM | #18 | |
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As for the concept of gentleman being timeless if I remember one Elizabethan on a foundering ship let his friend aboard a plank then drew his rapier and made sure every one else stayed away. In Vicky's day he would have gone to Coventry for that. For that matter can you imagine a Norman knight behaving in what you would call a remotely gentlemanly manner? Except of course by the original definition which is,"Having a successful thug for an ancestor" and fortunately of no more then etymological interest.
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09-15-2017, 07:09 PM | #19 | |
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The knife cut is at -4 actually (-8 halved from TA) and has +1 from Neck Control that I don't know if would apply to the grapple. Also, when creating this move I wasn't aiming exactly for the maximum damage, optimized cost or maximum versatility - I wanted to the replicate the classic scene in fiction where someone sneaks up behind his or her victim and cut its throat; and using only realistic rules. |
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09-15-2017, 07:51 PM | #20 |
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Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)
I would think that the tip slash is extraneous, after you grapple the targets jaw, pull the head back and stab below the ear all you have to do to finish is push forwards. A neck snap might be a useful followup to reduce the thrashing around, this would be a simple ST check as the ligaments at the front of the neck have been severed.
As GM once the player had made all the stealth checks, performed the grapple and made the first knife check I would say it's all over.
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