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Old 06-28-2015, 02:12 PM   #1
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Default Wrestling with Blindness

That is, if you have Blindness and happen to find yourself in a wrestling match. The normal penalty would be -6, but since you're always in contact with the enemy, should the penalty be smaller?
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Old 06-28-2015, 02:49 PM   #2
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Default Re: Wrestling with Blindness

Sounds like something that should be treated differently depending on presence/absence of Numb, Acute Touch and Sensitive Touch.
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Old 06-28-2015, 02:56 PM   #3
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Default Re: Wrestling with Blindness

I've heard several tales of wrestling teams practicing doing it with their eyes closed or blindfolded. Some schools do it, some don't. I've heard stories of the best guy on a good school's team showing off by defeating a foe he didn't think was that hard (but still knew his stuff) with his eyes closed.

Its definitely not a -6. I'd peg it at -2 or even -1 by that description.
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Old 06-28-2015, 06:29 PM   #4
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Default Re: Wrestling with Blindness

One of the reasons we knocked down "grappling from behind" from "can't defend" to "defends as if from the side arc" in TG was exactly that - you have a lot of feel for what's going on in terms of grappling. Strikes not so much.

I might tack on a -2 penalty - as if the foe is always in the side arc - to all moves once contact has been established. So blind grapple in the front is -2, side and rear is -4.
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