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Brawl Skill
Brawl defines your character's prowess at unarmed
combat, whether he's a black belt in karate, a hard-bitten
street tough or a college student who's taken a few selfdefense
courses. Characters with this Skill know how to
hit an opponent, where to hit for maximum effect and
how to defend themselves from attack. It can mean using
fists, but also elbows, knees, shoulders, head butts wrestling,
joint locks and choke holds. Characters with a several
dots could be familiar with multiple techniques of
unarmed combat. Expertise in such techniques is reflected
in the Fighting Style Merits (see pp. 110-112), which are
based on Brawl.
Brawl is added to your character's Strength to battle
people in unarmed combat.
- Possessed by: Bikers, boxers, gangsters, police officers, soldiers
- Specialties: Blocking, Boxing, Dirty Tricks, Grappling, Kung Fu, Throws
General Roll Results
- Dramatic Failure: Your character misses and leaves himself wide open for a counter-blow. Your character's Defense or Dodge trait does not apply to the next close-combat attack staged against them.
- Failure: You miss your target
- Success: You hit your target
- Exceptional Success:Your character lands a powerful blow or hits his opponent in a vital area, increasing damage
- Suggested Equipment: Damage rating of any Weapon that uses the Brawl Skill
- Possible Penalties: Slippery conditions (-1), bad weather (-1 to -3), extremely confined space (-2), intervening obstacles (-1 to -3), drunk (-2)
Application
- Required By: Aikido, Boxing, Brawling Dodge, Brute Force, Combatant, Entering Strike, Equipped Grappling, Firearms Retention, Grappling, Heavy Hands, Hooligan, Hound Tribunal, Krav Maga, Kung Fu, Legion of the Iron Wall, MAC, Muay Thai, Parliament of Victors, Police Tactics, Qinna, Slayer, Squires of the Broken Bough, Swarm Tactics, Tolltaker Knighthood, Tooth and Claw, Weapons to Empty Hands, Wolf Pack
- Used By: Aikido, Animation, Befuddle, Boxing, Chain Weapons, Contests and Games Rules, Devouring the Slain, Elements, Enervation, Entropic Guard, Entropy, Equipped Grappling, Errata: Werewolf, Eternal Summer, Gladiatorial, Grappling, Hooligan, Kinetic Blow, Krav Maga, MAC, Manufacture Spray, Momentary Flux, Oneiromachy, Optimize Kinetic Attack, Palsy, Petrifaction, Police Tactics, Retribution Gifts, Rotting Flesh, Shackled Morality, Sorrow-Frozen Heart, Storytelling System, Suppress Others Life, Tactics, Unseen Hand, Venombite, Verdant Spring, Wolf Pack
