Dirty Tricks in combat

[wellspring]

I think you're right that most of these can be represented by one of the three kinds of Feint: feints, ruses and beats. Their main value is to momentarily distract the opponent.

Dirt in the face is an obvious Dirty Trick, but you're right that it's the only one I can think of that isn't either a combat maneuver or a Feint.

I still like the "dirty tricks" callout box because it helps a GM figure out how to run all those generic things that players think of that don't have rules. And, really, the suggested rules aren't all that tight anyway, and to the extent that they're fully baked at all, they are basically Ruses.