[Technical Grappling] Teach me using examples

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Icelander

That's far from unreasonable, but it's also explicitly forbidden by the rules . . . My prefered solution would be to allow Parry as an Active Defence, but to penalise it for the need to retain the grapple.

It is explicitly allowed by the rules: The thing you do here to defend while you're grappling or being attacked by a grapple is a Hands-Free Parry (TG, p. 22-23). Adapt that or use it straight-up. "Parrying by yanking on the shield" or whatever is exactly the sort of below-resolution move that Hands-Free parries are designed to emulate.

Edit: I see you took the "unarmed" thing as meaning "only if grappling unarmed" rather than "you may only do this rolling against an unarmed skill." It's the latter. I recall Michael has Wrestling at a very high level, as well as Judo. Pick the most favorable accounting for what he's trying to do, and do a Hands-Free Parry based on that skill. The restriction proscribing "unarmed" is to prevent a single weapon skill from encompassing the entire body of knowledge that the unarmed skills grant. Armed skills are grappling skills, but they don't cover everything, and we put that in there to ensure that a properly made weapon fighter has a weapon skill and an unarmed skill of some sort.