Parrying with One Hand

Parrying with One Hand (aka PW1H or One-Handed Parry or 1HP) is the assumed default for unarmed parries unless they are performed using the Wrestling or Sumo skills, which use a Two-Handed Parry at baseline.
It applies to parries done unskilled (based on raw DX) as well as those done with Boxing and Brawling and Judo and Karate.
The option to do two-handed parries with these was introduced in Martial Arts called Cross Parry and Supported Parry.
It also introduced a Leg Parry and the Hands-Free Parries policy of avoiding grapples.
The term No-Contact Parry might be used to represent a parry which does involve hand movement, but to withdraw the hand from a path of attack rather than using a hand to redirect path of attack.
Parrying with One Arm is an alternate phrase which could be used to represent parries done by those with the One Hand limitation, which explicitly allows parries to be performed using arm despite missing it's hand, at no penalty.
*this is similar to how those missing a hand are still able to do an Elbow Strike equivalent of a punch, or a Forearm equivalent of a Hammer Fist.
The concept of using the arm instead of hand for contact (important where DR varies) for those who haven't had their hand severed, or who are holding objects (perhaps weapons) in the hand of that arm, has not been elaborated upon.
==See also==
*Parrying with Off Hand
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