GURPS MA: Riposte and All-Out Defense

[sclose1970]

Well, as an example: A character has a skill level in Karate of 18, with combat reflexes, and enhanced parry 1. His "normal" parry is 14. However, for the purposes of Riposte, his combat reflexes bonus is not taken into account until the negative modifier is applied, in this case he could take a maximum of a -5 penalty, reducing his parry score to 8. His final parry score, however, would be 9, after the +1 from Combat Reflexes. Had he taken an All-Out Defense the previous turn, would that then increase his parry to 11?

He could take a

Originally Posted by Dinadon

By boost, I'll assume you mean to take a larger penalty, the answer is no. Riposte counts no modifiers to your parry score, aside from Enhanced Parry, to determine how big a penalty to take.

Those modifiers do, though, make it more likely that you succeed at your penalized defense.