Forehead Cuts

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by aesir23

An interesting idea. I like it. Not least because I'm a bare-fisted boxing aficionado.

The problem with this is that nobody will ever target the eye with a punch in GURPS--too difficult, not enough pay-off.

Since the vast majority of punches are crushing damage, they won't be targeting the eye directly anyway.

Originally Posted by aesir23

I'm not sure how to handle it without adding a bunch of unnecessary HT rolls and book-keeping. Perhaps it's just a justification for shock and injury penalties.

Yep

You could run something like the the partial injures rules, 2HT x Seconds is probably long enough for blood to start getting into the eyes.

Well unless it a lot of blood from a big wound at which point I think the game effects of the wound itself are likely to cover all this (we did thread on this recently, I suggest running the bleeding rules for attacks that don't penetrate the skull)

Head / skull doesn't actually have any partial injuries rules, which is a bit odd, I guess it less likely to come up but still?