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Originally Posted by GodBeastX
I think my issue with parrying heavy things is that I feel parries should fail before a sword does. You have a SM+4 giant punching you with 80 ST for roughly 9d of damage.
This is, in GURPS terms, the same impact as a small car going ~40 mph. If you can't parry a car smashing into you, why would you be able to parry a fist like that? Perhaps your weapon won't break, but at what point does the fact you don't have the strength to stop or deflect an attack come into play where you just collapse, even if the weapon doesn't break?
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The second paragraph doesn't go with the first, frankly.
There is a well-known, entirely hashed out point that large creatures unarmed strikes are by default modeled as ridiculously light. The published version of the solution (which existed on the forums sooner) was referenced back on page 2 and 3.
Whether or not your sword fails is a
different problem. There's also been new rules that might address that one, but I don't think I've read them so I can't speak to how or how well.