Parrying Heavy Weapons - Very High Strength Unarmed

[Joel]

While stating out a 1200 strength super-giant and looking up the Parrying Heavy Weapons rules, I've realised that a character that can easily stomp an M1 Abrams into scrap metal (or throw it over 3000 feet) can have his kicks and punches parried by a mundane 41 pound weapon of no special quality with 0 chance of said weapon breaking.

Would changing the line

"For the purpose of these rules, treat a punch,
kick, bite, etc. as a weapon with an effective weight of
1/10 the attacker’s ST. Use his full ST if he made a slam,
flying tackle, pounce, or shield rush!"

to

"For the purpose of these rules, treat a punch,
kick, bite, etc. as a weapon with an effective weight of
1/20 the attacker’s basic lift. Use his (basic lift)/2 if he made a slam,
flying tackle, pounce, or shield rush!"

on page 376 be a fix for this? It gets the same results for a ST 10 character but scales more reasonably with higher strength.

[vierasmarius]

Originally Posted by Joel

While stating out a 1200 strength super-giant and looking up the Parrying Heavy Weapons rules, I've realised that a character that can easily stomp an M1 Abrams into scrap metal (or throw it over 3000 feet) can have his kicks and punches parried by a mundane 41 pound weapon of no special quality with 0 chance of said weapon breaking.

Would changing the line

"For the purpose of these rules, treat a punch,
kick, bite, etc. as a weapon with an effective weight of
1/10 the attacker’s ST. Use his full ST if he made a slam,
flying tackle, pounce, or shield rush!"

to

"For the purpose of these rules, treat a punch,
kick, bite, etc. as a weapon with an effective weight of
1/20 the attacker’s basic lift. Use his (basic lift)/2 if he made a slam,
flying tackle, pounce, or shield rush!"

on page 376 be a fix for this? It gets the same results for a ST 10 character but scales more reasonably with higher strength.

That is exactly the houserule that many on the forum use (myself included). So with a BL of 144 tons, this beast's kicks are 7.2 tons, while its slam is 72 tons.

[Joel]

Originally Posted by vierasmarius

That is exactly the houserule that many on the forum use (myself included). So with a BL of 144 tons, this beast's kicks are 7.2 tons, while its slam is 72 tons.

Oh. I tried searching the forum with google before posting but nothing came up