Handedness

described on page 5 of GURPS Lite
:Whenever you try to do anything significant with the other hand, you are at -4 to skill.
:This does not apply to things you normally do with your “off” hand, like using a shield.
Karate explicitly removes the -4 to skill when punching while Brawling and Boxing do not.
Since parries can be done with either the hand or the arm, using the arm to do a parry would avoid the -4 penalty but using the hand would not.
==see also==
*Ambidexterity
*Harsh Realism for Unarmed Fighters
*One Hand
*One Arm
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