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Message: <blockquote data-quote="big dummy" data-source="post: 2900174" data-attributes="member: 41052">Yeah I'm familair with project grizzly, quite amusing.  And yes, I agree that in a knock down drag-out, a sufficiently clever monster the size of a brown bear could always rip your arms off or twist your head off.  However I did recently see a "when animals attack" show on Discovery where a guy actually fought a big Grizzly bear with a hunting knife and mortally wounded it, before finishing it off with his gun.  A Grizzly moreover which had just recently killed another hunter.Bottom line, if I did have to fight a Grizzly bear for some very unwelcome reason, I would much rather do so in full plate harness than unarmored.  In attacks I've read about and seen on cable, Grizzlys often seem to bite the heads and rip open the abdomen of their victims with their claws, neither of which would have much effect if you were in armor.  The armor would also definately discourage and harm the bear as it tried to kill you, and bears like many animals can be disuaded from attack by even slight injuries or pain.  Even the buffeting effect of a bear paw, from some of the blows I've seen people ignore in steel helmets in training I think you'd have a much better chance of remaining conscious with that armor on.Again, if I had to, I would also prefer to fight a grizzly with a nice long spear with a cross-bar, so that I could thrust into him before he closed to grapple distance with me.  Which brings me back to those simple rules mods.  If I had a nice +6 To Hit advantage for reach it might give me an extra fighting chance to fend that bear off.Thats probably why people who did hunt dangerous animals like boars and bears on foot using hand weapons (and some still do) traditionally used a spear.  For the reach.(Of course there are some psychos out there who hunt animals like that with knives. )BD</blockquote>

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