What the heck does: grappling an enemy, shoving them so they’re prone but STILL grappled, look like?

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  1. D. Walker says:

    In basically every form of grappling in real life, the entire point is to get your opponent on the ground and unable to fight back effectively.

    Once you successfully get an opponent to the ground, there is pretty much always a moment of choice where you have to decide whether to drop to the ground with them, or remain standing (or often kneeling), but the idea is that you always want to be in a superior position, usually on top of them, so you can control their movements and strike at them freely.

    The “Prone” condition doesn’t really model being literally splayed out on the floor, so much as it models being in a badly disadvantaged position (usually any time your head and arms aren’t above the rest of your body, and your center of gravity is compromised, making it difficult to strike back or defend yourself).

    For example, if you have two combatants and one of them manages to grab the other by the hair and bend them backwards at the waist, even though they are technically still standing the bent-backward combatant is effectively “prone”.

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