Rapier:Conventions of combat - Use of weapons and defensive equipment - Defending yourself

Defending yourself

1. You are allowed to use defensive objects like bucklers, cloaks, sticks, and other objects that adhere to the rules of defensive equipment to parry, deflect, or immobilize your opponent's weapon.
2. You must not strike your opponent with a defensive object.
3. You are allowed to throw a cloak or other similar, soft object onto your opponents' weapons, body, hands and arms, but are not allowed to deliberately try to cover your opponent's face or to cause them to trip.
4. You must not use a defensive object to bind your opponent's weapon to their body, even temporarily.
5. You are allowed to use your sword, dagger, spear, defensive objects, and any body part to parry and deflect. If your movement causes your opponent's weapon to make contact with you that is equivalent to a valid blow, you must take the blow the same as if you had been struck.
6. You are allowed to grasp your opponent's blade with an empty hand, so long as you do not exert pressure to bend the blade. If the blade moves or twists in your hand, your hand has been cut and disabled.