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belial.1980:
Maybe the knife wielding character could stab/impale the ghoul's wrist, thereby stopping the blow? It would probably take some fancy footwork as well. Not saying it's realistic, but it ::might:: be plausible depending on the ghoul's and the knife fighter's abilities. Also how girtty/cinematic you want the story to feel.

Quantus:
A normal block/parry? no, unless as BfP said, the zombie is moving abnormally slow.  This would substantially lessen the kinetic energy of the blow (E_k=M*V^2).  Now if your knife wielder is skilled enough they might be able to step in and catch the wrist of the sword-wielder with the knife, doing so damage that way, thought it may be both more realistic and cinematic if they could anchor it into something (stab it into the tree they are standing next to or some such) rather than take all that force themselves.  But if the knifer is that much faster than the scimmy-guy, then they could probably dodge instead, perhaps with some side-swatting to nudge it a bit as they move.  Again that comes to relative skill levels.   

 Also this is assuming the ghoul gets no supernatural strength, other-wise its more a pure not-a-chance scenario. 

Shecky:
Smaller than a Bowie knife. Not likely, unless the non-ghoul is VERY fast and strong, and even then, it would be less of a parry and more of a super-fast beating-aside of the blade... and if he's that fast and strong, that's probably the last stroke that ghoul's taking.

Now, if it were a Bowie knife, especially the larger, heavier varieties, then yes. That's pretty much a short sword, and it's very heavily, sturdily made. KA-BAR would fit the bill, too.

gravesbane:
The way I understand how a parry works you are just redirecting the blade not blocking the blow outright. When I took fencing lessons years ago my instructor said you use the six inches or so closest to the guard of your blade for defence. To illustrate this he had each use a modified blade, which was only six inches, to practice parries. I can't recall his name, but he claimed to have trained several sucessful Olympic fencers.

Quantus:

--- Quote from: gravesbane on August 11, 2009, 02:28:23 AM ---The way I understand how a parry works you are just redirecting the blade not blocking the blow outright. When I took fencing lessons years ago my instructor said you use the six inches or so closest to the guard of your blade for defence. To illustrate this he had each use a modified blade, which was only six inches, to practice parries. I can't recall his name, but he claimed to have trained several successful Olympic fencers.

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Interesting.   In terms of contact force, fencing is one of the weakest styles, due mostly to the relatively low mass of the sword.

Meg, what type of scimitar are you picturing?  Ive seen everything from a thin curved rapier to thick bladed falchion style be called a scimitar.  Wielded one handed or two?

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