Have you ever played an old timey pugilist? You should.

>>44664719
Sir Humphrey Barrington Parker, Esquire: Gentleman Boxer and wrester. At your service.

>>44664719
I currently playing mercenary captain with heavy plate armor, shield, and heavy mace, also a good brawler and boxer. Does that count?

>>44664719
"Old timey pugilist" basically means "show fighter with no conception of defensive technique".

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>>44665404
The best defense is a reckless offense

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>>44664719
Would a Bartitsu expert count?

>>44665475
Nah nah, don't go on the offense before you have a strong defense. This is basic Sun Tzu. If you commit to an assault without having some sort of fall-back plan, without being able to defend yourself if something goes wrong, then you're putting all your chickens in one basket. It's like tossing a coin, hoping the guy's weak enough to fold, and if he doesn't you're screwed. That double edged shit isn't smart.

>>44665404
So, basically a mook, who's got one strike before comeback kills him?

>>44665515
Put Sun Tzu in a ring with 'Mad Billy, Fuck me is he mad' McTavish and we'll see how much of his shit works!

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You have no dignity.

>>44665556
Anger doesn't work in boxing, not when boxers know how to spot openings and exploit patterns. It's true that the best defense is a good offense: but you need a good defense before launching a good offense.

>>44665404
>>44665515
Now wait, plenty of classical boxing manuals from the Pre-Marquis rules era devote time to stances and blocking. It seems a disingenuous to call any bare-knuckle pugilist without defense.

>>44665630
We are not talking about boxing, we're talking about a semi-competent nutcase fighting what may well be regular mooks.

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>>44665648
True, I guess. It wasn't a lot more advanced than simply blocking, though. On the other hand, it also matters what you mean by "old timey". I think of "old timey pugilism" as being that pre-Mendoza era of extremely basic defense through blocking. S'pose there's a lot of variation between what two people mean by "old timey pugilist" though. I was exaggerating a bit as well.

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>>44664719
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>>44664719

This is the *only* correct way to implement the Monk class in a Victorian steampunk setting.

>>44666470
Shit, I just looked it up. It was almost a full century between Mendoza and the Marquess of Queensbury rules. I gotta learn to refresh my memory before posting.