cheesegrater as improvised shield

Plane · 10-13-2022, 02:20 AM

Saw this epic move by Cheryl in the latest Archer and it got me wondering if you had to battle in a kitchen and this was available how GURPS would handle it.

A warning about the vid clip - there is some blood because there's a large man trying to bare-knuckle KO a woman with headshots to her face so she holds up a grater in the path to her face and he punches it and rips up his knuckles on it.

https://youtu.be/aUc8pbLTkY0

I got wondering if, even if it seemed more like an improvised shield, if maybe it'd be easier to treat it like a parry because armed parries against unarmed attacks get a free attack to inflict damage on the limb.

I'm not really sure what this would be considered an improvised version of though. Some kind of knife?

A lot of it has to do with angles though. You wouldn't rip up your hands throwing a straight, I think the only reason this worked is because this guy's haymaker was angled downward because Cheryl was shorter than him, which meant it was diagonal relative to the grater instead of horizontal.

10-13-2022, 02:20 AM	#1
Plane Join Date: Aug 2018	cheesegrater as improvised shield Saw this epic move by Cheryl in the latest Archer and it got me wondering if you had to battle in a kitchen and this was available how GURPS would handle it. A warning about the vid clip - there is some blood because there's a large man trying to bare-knuckle KO a woman with headshots to her face so she holds up a grater in the path to her face and he punches it and rips up his knuckles on it. https://youtu.be/aUc8pbLTkY0 I got wondering if, even if it seemed more like an improvised shield, if maybe it'd be easier to treat it like a parry because armed parries against unarmed attacks get a free attack to inflict damage on the limb. I'm not really sure what this would be considered an improvised version of though. Some kind of knife? A lot of it has to do with angles though. You wouldn't rip up your hands throwing a straight, I think the only reason this worked is because this guy's haymaker was angled downward because Cheryl was shorter than him, which meant it was diagonal relative to the grater instead of horizontal. __________________ what this forum is (17 March 2020 forum rules from Hackard)