Re: MUDs with Grappling/Wrestling/Throws.
I'd be personally fairly interested in a MUD that incorporated this well as I love Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The tough part are the different states/positions you can get into with an opponent and then dealing with how to integrate those with the rest of combat.
For instance, if I'm grappling with you on the ground and have you in guard (a grappling position that has both of us on the ground), both of us would be (in any reasonable world at least) about as vulnerable as one can be to a combatant standing nearby with a weapon.
One-off throws and that kind of thing are easy, of course, but the give-and-take physical chess of grappling is a whole other matter. If you do find a game that's implemented it well I'd be super-interested in seeing it. I haven't even seen a graphical game that does grappling well, regardless of budget (mainly due to problems with the UI. Grappling is too subtle to be easily mapped to the UI tools that exist.)
--matt
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