Parrying unarmed attacks

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Gollum

It is a point of view...

In my humble opinion, putting a sword between you and a jumping wolf doesn't require much more time than putting it between you and a swung sword.

There are two different die rolls but only one move.

But simply putting the sword there is not a full-power attack. A parry is a deflection or a block with the blade, it is not a strike with all the wielder's strength against the incoming attack.

Interposing a sword in the path of a jumping wolf could be done as a parry, yes, but it does not seem to be realistic that this should be equally effective as waiting for the wolf to jump and then thrusting the sword into his path.