Force your foe to drop it

To force your foe to drop it is a combat option described in the 1st paragraph of B370's right column, immediately prior to Actions After a Grapple even though this is actually itself an "action after a grapple" which should probably have been included THERE instead of under the basic "Grappling" introduction section.
This requires grappling the hand or arm of the limb wielding the weapon, no other body party will do.
How it is resolved is "as explained under Grabbing" which refers to the note on how to wrest a weapon away.
The contest of ST appears to be identical in both circumstances, with the primary differences being:
*if the attacker wins the contest, they don't gain control of it because they were not holding it to begin with
*if the attacker loses the contest, it's not clear on what happens to the usual condition of "you lose your grip on his weapon" since there isn't any grip on the weapon to begin with: whether that's just ignored or if it instead means "lose your grip on your foe" instead.
category:Combat options