Chapter Five:

Unarmed Combat

Characters all too frequently find themselves weaponless while embroiled in a fight. Experienced players often prefer to have their characters voluntarily lay aside their weapons to engage in nonlethal combat, especially when attempting to capture an opponent who is more valuable to them alive than dead.

There are three parts to this chapter. The first is Brawling; it covers pummeling, wrestling, and overbearing, the three basic types of unarmed combat (though improvised weapons can be used in pummeling). Subduing is a type of armed combat that employs weapons in nonlethal ways. Martial Arts is a set of skills that can make an unarmed character as formidable and unpredictable as a swordsman.

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