Shooting While Grappled

RobKamm · 08-13-2010, 02:06 PM

It has been a long time since I saw Robocop, but as I recall it was a villain who grabbed a non-combatant and fired away. Assuming I'm remembering that correctly, I would GM that as an attack from Total Surprise. The victim was still under mental stun and couldn't resist the grapple, or interfere with the attacker's actions. Once the victim came out of the stun, and could act normally, I would enforce the restrictions against shooting out of close combat.

In such scenes the (Overconfident) villain will make an AoA immediately before the victim comes out of stun. That allows the victim to AoA, elbow to groin to break the grapple, and use the 1/2 Move to escape (I would allow the attack then move in this case, despite the rule on p. 385).

08-13-2010, 02:06 PM	#8
RobKamm Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Chicago	Re: Shooting While Grappled It has been a long time since I saw Robocop, but as I recall it was a villain who grabbed a non-combatant and fired away. Assuming I'm remembering that correctly, I would GM that as an attack from Total Surprise. The victim was still under mental stun and couldn't resist the grapple, or interfere with the attacker's actions. Once the victim came out of the stun, and could act normally, I would enforce the restrictions against shooting out of close combat. In such scenes the (Overconfident) villain will make an AoA immediately before the victim comes out of stun. That allows the victim to AoA, elbow to groin to break the grapple, and use the 1/2 Move to escape (I would allow the attack then move in this case, despite the rule on p. 385).