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[Gollum]

Originally Posted by Kalzazz

Huh! Page 376 of Campaigns "If
you succeed, your parry struck the
attacker’s limb squarely. He gets no
defense roll against this! Roll damage
normally."

So, limb, not extremity! Weird.

Isn't "limb" supposed to be the generic term in GURPS (either arm or hand... or leg or feet... or even finger, toe, tentacle, and so on...)?

Having said that, Basic Set, page 377, is more precise:

"A failed parry means you are hit. If you are using hit locations, a failed parry against a weapon means your attacker may choose to hit his original target or the arm you parried with!"

I think that the author of this rule learned martial arts and know that karate parries (age-uke, shudan-uke, gedan-uke, ko-uke, skui-uke, harai-uke, hura-uke, tomoe-uke, and so on) are done with the arm or the wrist and not the hand. The hand is usually used immediately after the parry to grapple the foe's weapon arm.

But if an extraterrestrial parried with a tentacle, I would see no problem in considering that the word "arm" could be replaced by "tentacle" and if a strange parry really used the hand directly (I don't know aikido or jujistsu parries for instance) I would either see no problem with replacing it with "hand".

In my humble opinion, rules don't say that it has to be the arm and nothing else. They just say that this is the arm in most cases.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Gollum

But if an extraterrestrial parried with a tentacle, I would see no problem in considering that the word "arm" could be replaced by "tentacle"

In GURPS, a tentacle is either an arm, a leg, or a striker, and if it's a striker it doesn't take any damage.

Specifying arm and thereby excluding leg might be because, in the Basic Set, leg parries weren't yet a thing. Were they?