Steve Jackson Games - Site Navigation
Home General Info Follow Us Search Illuminator Store Forums What's New Other Games Ogre GURPS Munchkin Our Games: Home

Go Back   Steve Jackson Games Forums > Roleplaying > GURPS

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 09-15-2017, 04:45 PM   #11
Apollonian
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
Also the OP is a heck of a lot of text for something that is pretty simple in reality, no wonder people think GURPS is too complicated. You could have written all of the key points there (the combination, and the grab and smash) in less than a hundred words.
It wouldn't be GURPS if we didn't use a hundred words where ten would do. Logorhea seems ingrained in the system culture.
Apollonian is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 04:48 PM   #12
sir_pudding
Wielder of Smart Pants
 
sir_pudding's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Apollonian View Post
It wouldn't be GURPS if we didn't use a hundred words where ten would do. Logorhea seems ingrained in the system culture.
Not apparently when the editors are involved...
sir_pudding is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 04:49 PM   #13
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
The gentlemanly thing to do is announce yourself and give the man time to prepare to defend himself. Skulking is for cowards (and people who want to live more than they want to be gentlemen).
That really only applies if the sentry is also a gentleman, and would a gentleman be on sentry duty?
__________________
My GURPS site and Blog.
Anthony is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 04:57 PM   #14
Bicorn
 
Bicorn's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Apollonian View Post
It wouldn't be GURPS if we didn't use a hundred words where ten would do. Logorhea seems ingrained in the system culture.
Still better than White Wolf's tradition of having five sentences of fluff for every one of crunch.
Bicorn is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 04:58 PM   #15
Set
 
Set's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2017
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomsdad View Post
Hello welcome to the boards!
Thank you!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomsdad View Post
This is actually a subject that has come up a few time so for some alternative takes on this you might start

here

and

here
Indeed I've read quite a few of those threads, and pulled many suggestions from them. I wanted to create a thread that says right on the OP what you need to do.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomsdad View Post
Right OK on to the suggestion. I think your right a telegraphic All out Attack including a combo will do the trick nicely here.

I wouldn't worry about invoking tip slashes. It's not what you really doing here, you're just sawing away at this chap's neck with a blade that already in there. Not trying to catch him with the very end of your swinging blade.
True enough, but I'd say that it isn't exactly a swing either. Tip Slash is the official rule that is the closest to this, I think. Maybe a less severe damage penalty? Maybe only -1, since your dagger is quite deep in the unfornate person's throat.


Quote:
Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
The gentlemanly thing to do is announce yourself and give the man time to prepare to defend himself. Skulking is for cowards (and people who want to live more than they want to be gentlemen).
Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
That really only applies if the sentry is also a gentleman, and would a gentleman be on sentry duty?


Quote:
Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
Also the OP is a heck of a lot of text for something that is pretty simple in reality, no wonder people think GURPS is too complicated. You could have written all of the key points there (the combination, and the grab and smash) in less than a hundred words.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Apollonian View Post
It wouldn't be GURPS if we didn't use a hundred words where ten would do. Logorhea seems ingrained in the system culture.
That is true. I will make a "Short Version" and edit it to the OP, specifying the calculated costs.

The Logorrhea version will still be up if people want to know where the hell that is coming from.
Set is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 05:09 PM   #16
jason taylor
 
jason taylor's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
That really only applies if the sentry is also a gentleman, and would a gentleman be on sentry duty?
If he is a gentleman-ranker.

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.
__________________
"The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison

Last edited by jason taylor; 09-15-2017 at 05:15 PM.
jason taylor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 05:16 PM   #17
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
If he is a gentleman-ranker.

In any case what period are you talking of?
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).
__________________
My GURPS site and Blog.
Anthony is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 05:25 PM   #18
jason taylor
 
jason taylor's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
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).
Yes but the details are not. For instance there was nothing about. "don't shoot at generals" in WW2. Come to think of it there was nothing about sentries not randomly shooting at each other and that was one of the more sensible portions of the code(everyone has work tomorrow and needs sleep). However SOMETIMES prisoners got treated a lot better even if they were from Other Ranks(sometimes they got treated a lot worse too).

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.
__________________
"The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison

Last edited by jason taylor; 09-15-2017 at 06:01 PM.
jason taylor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 07:09 PM   #19
Set
 
Set's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2017
Default Re: The guide to throat slitting (or sentry removal, for the gentlemen)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellboy View Post
Instead of using knife to cut neck (-5 to hit) you can grapple it instead (-3 to hit) which still does cutting damage equal to half control points (tech iCal grappling) and then you can spend those points to increase damage of next cut.
Ah, I don't have the grappling supplement. Care to explain this specific rule?

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.
Set is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-15-2017, 07:51 PM   #20
(E)
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: New Zealand.
Default 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.
__________________
Waiting for inspiration to strike......
And spending too much time thinking about farming for RPGs
Contributor to Citadel at Nordvörn

Last edited by (E); 09-15-2017 at 08:31 PM.
(E) is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
fairbairn, hit location, neck, sentry removal

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Fnords are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 04:11 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.