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What about throwing a Knee and rolling neck?
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You've thrown a
Kyokushin-style high jumping knee, or your opponent ducked into a knee meant for the body (which happened to a sparring partner of mine last Thursday), or you've made a quick Grab and Smash-style clinch knee without actually going through the typical system abstraction for doing so.
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What happens if you throw a punch and the GM rolls foot?
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You punch, the opponent misjudges their parry and gets thrown off balance, rolling their ankle as they're thrown back by the blow?
Alternatively: A 'punch' in GURPS is, principally, an unarmed attack dealing thrust - 1 crushing damage that doesn't unbalance you enough to risk falling when you miss. Would it break anything if such an attack were allowed to represent a conservative sort of kick with less damage and no chance to unbalance you?
True, there are a few incidental system details that indicate you're making the attack with your hand- it's the body part that gets damaged if you get parried by a weapon, and you can get Arm Locked after someone parries it. But, really, if someone parried the attack, the hit location it was
going to hit if it had been parried is immaterial, and such attacks can be assumed to have been actual punches to keep things simple. As best I can tell, the only place you get weird results is if you hit rigid DR and damage the striking appendage.
If you're a detail hound and this bothers you, well... the ability to displace such striking-rigid-DR injury from your hand to your foot is ambiguously beneficial at best, probably not even worth a Perk- call it a zero-point Feature that anyone can have. So, any time you Punch a foot, strike rigid DR, and hurt the striking appendage, just say that the damage applies to your foot rather than your hand.
But this is vanishingly unlikely ever to come up. How many people play in games where people both wear rigid foot armor and routinely engage in unarmed combat in the first place? Even in genres where sabatons/sollerets exist, boots are typically used instead, and melee-weapon skills dominate over unarmed-combat ones.
:-)