Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Pg 115 Martial Arts, box text labeled "Teeth".

Basically it details what you can bite based on you relative SM, frex if it's equal or smaller no biting your opponents skull. This is why the Born Biter feature is listed there, that alters the mouth for purposes of SM (making it bigger for biting and being hit).

Also other possibilities in combat are detailed, like worrying on follow-up turns, that teeth grapples are treated as two-handed, interaction with a few specific hit locations (nose and ear), throat bites are automatically strangles, etc.


Basically it really makes doing a Crab Claw as an Extra Mouth a great way to go...

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

This Does Not Follow. The mouth on the front of your head doesn't give you a "free bite" against people who punch your face, and you get to see THAT one coming.

Nothing in the description says that you get a "free attack" against someone who attacks a hit location with a mouth on it, and there's no precedent for that with a regular mouth.

The closest is the aggressive parry technique, which woudln't apply because you can't defend against attacks from behind.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

I wouldn't allowing 'buying the teeth' as Strikers, but I would allow for a Striker and Extra Mouth to be described as the same 'limb' weapon (so yes, in effect you are buying 'the teeth' as a Striker).

However if they are bought as an AA, then I wouldn't allow the free grapple in response to a Parry.



Now I really want to play in a Gamma World AtE game and play a Lobstrosity...

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

MA has the Limb limitation for Strikers, and that seems to be the closest RAW thing to a 'hand-mouth'.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

You can certainly buy a head striker, but it doesn't seem that it would actually have the function of teeth (so you could use it for damage as a striker, or you could bite and worry with it, but not both at once).

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

I meant buying Extra Mouth with the 'limb' limitation to represent another limb being able to act as a mouth, but having a shared crippling pool and the like.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Extra mouth doesn't grant a limb, it just lets you place an extra mouth anywhere on your body. You could possibly do extra head with a limb limitation, though.

Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#53): Extra Head, Extra Mouth
 

Why am I quoting myself? Because I just got GURPS Martial Arts as a gift! :D Now to make the time to read it. ;)