Need some help with hand-to-hand combat/Martial Arts

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Originally Posted by EskrimadorNC

I think I posted a pretty poor example with the video, so just forget that you all saw that.. In a nutshell, it seems odd to me that if two guys have the same DX and HT, but one has Boxing-11 and the other has Boxing-20, they both have the same chance to defend with a Dodge, and the difference in skill ONLY shows up on a Parry. Or that someone who has been training Boxing for 8 months has the exact same chance of slipping a Right Cross as Floyd Mayweather. Ah well, no RPG can be perfect.

Keep in mind that the guy with Boxing-20 probably has some points into Health and DX, increasing his base dodge, and the guy with Boxing-11 is taking telegraphic attacks just to have a chance of hitting the face.

Originally Posted by EskrimadorNC

That makes sense. What about Deceptive Attack with Rapid Strike? Do you have to take the DA penalty with both attacks, or can you have say the first attack be a Grapple the Torso with a bunch of DA and then the second attack be a Knee to the Groin with no DA?

Yeah, you could even add telegraphic to the knee, to signify "winding-up" the knee as you grapple the torso.

Originally Posted by EskrimadorNC

The one exception to that is Grab the Torso and Knee the Groin, right? You can't exactly grapple the groin...

You can actually grapple the groin. See Testicle Grab, on page 40 of Technical Grappling.

But as stated in Martial Arts, p. 118, a grapple to the torso suffices to Grab and Smash: the torso, vitals, groin or spine.