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Old 01-25-2010, 11:17 AM   #1
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Default Is parry calculated from base skill or effective skill?

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?
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Old 01-25-2010, 11:27 AM   #2
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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.
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Old 01-25-2010, 11:35 AM   #3
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Parry is found from base skill.
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Old 01-25-2010, 11:43 AM   #4
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I'm surprised. I would have thought that things like Weapon Bond and Fine Balance would improve your ability to parry.
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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.
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Old 01-25-2010, 12:42 PM   #6
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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.
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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.
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Old 01-25-2010, 01:07 PM   #8
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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.
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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.
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