[UA] Knife Fights? (was Re: [UA] Superskills

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 05:54 PM 02/10/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>The way I think about knife fighting is this.  Imagine that I'm holding an
>>uncapped black sharpie permanent marker.  You're wearing an expensive white
>>tuxedo.  Do you REALLY think there's a reasonable chance that you can get
>>the marker away from me without getting ink on your clothes or your hands?
>
>Wouldn't that depend more on relative levels of skill more than anything 
>else? I can easily see a trained fighter take a knife from my hand before I 
>could even say "Come get some!" Certainly not a simple or reliable thing, 
>but I would think it's possible.

To clarify, I'm not insisting that you'll get BADLY cut taking a knife
away.  (Rules-wise, I'm thinking of the simple kludge that a knife attack
always does a point of damage, even if it misses.)  But there's a good
chance of losing blood to a nick in the hand or arm, even if you can grab
the guy's hands and isolate the weapon.

As for kicking it out of his hand... well, I've heard it's possible, but I
wouldn't try it.  If you miss, you're not in a very good position...

-G.
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three-ways.
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you might think.
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