Driving

The maneuver determines the level of the difficulty. Speed must always be taken into account, but the core difficulty is determined by the maneuver.

Speed effects are dependent on the persona’s Dexterity. High Dexterity reflects good eye-hand coordination, agility, and reaction time, all of which aids in avoiding accidents. The maximum speed that a persona can handle is one h/u per point of DEX. Even trying to drive straight can be dangerous at high speeds.

Handling is the handling class of vehicle. Some vehicles are designed to make handling them safer.

If the persona has any expertise in driving they get to include this in competency. At the moment there is no interest that is applied to driving checks.

Aptitude determines how much of the persona’s experience level improves competency. The higher the persona’s level the more their competency improves. Driving aptitude is different from regular task roll aptitude in that it is a straight value. There is no increasing value of aptitude at higher levels. EXPS level 4 adds 4 to the competency and level 12 adds 12 to the competency when making a driving task roll.

The handling level of a vehicle is the combination of the elements of maneuverability, responsiveness and stability. Handling level includes steering sensitivity, brake response, traction, balance, and chassis design. The higher the handling level, the better the chance of success with driving maneuvers.

To arrive here, the player has lost both her driving roll and her rally roll. The loss of control could be just plain unlucky, but more often speed is to blame. Things are now getting dangerous. Loss of control of the vehicle allows it to travel in a somewhat random direction. The loss of control is temporary, and if there still is a chance that no collision will occur.

The deadliness of a crash depends on the speed of the vehicle. The higher the speed, the more dangerous the collision. The speed of the collision determines the energy of the collision. The energy of the collision determines the amount of damage delivered. The vehicle and passengers are damaged simultaneously.

Collisions can deliver massive amounts of damage and easily kill personas. Collision damage works the same as any other damage inflicted on the persona. The referee generates the damage, and the player subtracts the value from her hit points. The referee can roll damage once for all the personas in the collision or individually for each persona.

Every persona involved in the collision takes the HPS damage. If two vehicles collide, then all the personas in both vehicles take damage. In a collision at 35 h/u, every passenger in both vehicles takes 6d10 HPS in damage. Relative wate can increase the damage by up to 4 times or decrease it by 1/4.

Pedestrians hit by vehicles will take damage as if they were in an accident with the vehicle. A vehicle traveling 35 h/u would do 6d10 to a pedestrian.

Vehicles do not have hit points. Vehicles suffer damage in a fashion similar to other inorganic objects. Vehicle damage resembles robot, spacecraft, and artifact damage. The higher the speed of the vehicle has its collision at the more damage that it endures.

A vehicle in a collision at eight h/u will not sustain damage, but the passengers may. A vehicle in a collision at 28 h/u would sustain three vehicle damage table rolls. A vehicle that collides at 60 h/u (250 km/h) would take six damage table rolls.

Each vehicle damage roll indicates a location of damage and the extent of the damage. The location of the damage is entirely random. The extent of damage can be random or modified depending on the irritation level of the referee.

There are further complications that may interest the referee. Passenger entrapment equals 1% per HPS of damage inflicted on the passenger. Post-collision fire is dependent on fuel type and damage to the fuel system. A Sphincter Roll is required to determine if there is a fire complication. Whether the vehicle is drivable depends on the damage to systems during the collision. The final vehicle resting position is entirely up to the decision of the referee.