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[Willow]

So, any guidelines out there on how far a character can physically throw another character? I would imagine first you'd have to grapple them, and then you'd have to throw them, but how far is too far?

(I have a scenario in mind that involves people being thrown into a pit.)
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[JackAce]

There's an Edge that enables you to do that in the Modern Martial Arts pdf, available (for free) here:
http://12tomidnight.com/category/downloads/

Appart from that, I'd expect, you couldn't trwo a person particularly far unless the target is completely subdued.

To throw someone into a pit, you'd probably grapple him (Fighting roll, one action), pick him up off the ground (Strength roll, second action), carry him to the rim of the pit (might take several actions depending on the distance) and then push him away from you.

Between the various steps, the target will have chances to break free from the grapple normally.

The pushing off I'd rule as if the thrower was releasing the grapple and then moving away from the target. This gives the target the oportunity for a free attack, so he can in turn grapple the thrower and keep himself from falling.
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[Snate56]

That all depends on the strength of the thrower. I mean, if the Hulk were to grab you and toss you over his shoulder, you won't be doing a lot of counter-attacking.
If I'm big and strong enough to pick someone up bodily and throw him even three inches (6 yrds), am I going to be considered as retreating?

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[R2Keen2]

I've contemplated the idea from an aikido perspective. Your not so much throwing them as redirecting their motion to send them off balance. Still I'd say its a fighting attack to grapple and maybe a fighting or throwing attempt to send them off.

[SlasherEpoch]

I'd consider throwing or tripping a special Grappling attack or Agility trick, and the throwee winds up Prone.

Also I house rule out that thing in the books about people rising automatically from prone. That's crap.
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[R2Keen2]

I admit it kinda defeats the purpose of knocking someone down in the first place but it does drop his parry if you throw him near an ally who could attack before it gets up.

[The GIT!]

The way I work it is that Throwing is a grappling based action. A success makes the opponent prone and a raise means he is also shaken.

As for a Trip attack, I basically use the Trick manoeuvre. In this case an opponent can't be shaken.

An extra house rule I added is that a prone defender who is shaken cannot get up until the shaken status is removed.

Oh - and if a prone defender wants to get up he'll have to do it on his turn and it will count as an action. May seem harsh, but that's the way I like it
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[Clint]

[pheylorn]

I like Clint's ruling alot. I'll be using that myself.

[Jordan Peacock]

Thanks for that ruling! This is actually a problem that cropped up in the very first session when I was playtesting for another game system that shall go unnamed.

It was a peculiar setting in which there were dramatic size differences between different fantasy races, and a barroom brawl was going on. We had a nasty time trying to figure out a fair way to handle the Really Big Guy throwing the Really Puny Guys out of the building, and the game designer seemed aghast that we actually needed to know rules for throwing people when I turned in my after-game report.

(Similarly, I've had trouble with another yet another older game-system-that-shall-go-unnamed where a PC specifically had a power to telekinetically move objects around, and yet the game system gave no specific rules on how to determine what damage such objects should cause when smacking into someone, or when dropped from the maximum height onto a target, or whether or not the target should get a chance to scramble out of the way first.)

So this sort of stuff is nice to have handy, just in case.
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