Brawling

Steve Jackson · 07-14-2018, 04:10 PM

What Lars said. When humans were first getting started, you needed NOT to really damage your adversary for dominance - they were probably related and you'd be killing your own genes, as well as weakening the tribe. It's biology, and not some inherent goodness, that gives us the idea of "fighting fair." We were tribal apes for a long time before some of us became warriors who specialized in fighting strangers.

Rule as written also gives roleplaying options - you can say "I am NOT fighting dirty , even though I could."

If humans always pulled out all the stops, we would all know several people who are missing important bits. One of the important things taught in women's self-defense classes is to LOSE those inhibitions when assaulted, and go straight to a good hard twisting bite and a jab at the eyes or crotch, and I understand that that's sometimes a hard lesson to get across.

07-14-2018, 04:10 PM	#8
Steve Jackson President and EIC Join Date: Jul 2004	Re: Brawling What Lars said. When humans were first getting started, you needed NOT to really damage your adversary for dominance - they were probably related and you'd be killing your own genes, as well as weakening the tribe. It's biology, and not some inherent goodness, that gives us the idea of "fighting fair." We were tribal apes for a long time before some of us became warriors who specialized in fighting strangers. Rule as written also gives roleplaying options - you can say "I am NOT fighting dirty , even though I could." If humans always pulled out all the stops, we would all know several people who are missing important bits. One of the important things taught in women's self-defense classes is to LOSE those inhibitions when assaulted, and go straight to a good hard twisting bite and a jab at the eyes or crotch, and I understand that that's sometimes a hard lesson to get across.