How Handling Affects Handling... Cargo
 

Typically, the more agile a vehicle is, the higher its Handling score. This number is useful for Vehicular Dodges... but I imagine they're more than that!

What if the Handling score ALSO affected your vehicular skill roll on docking[1] and parking, and on rolls for air vehicles carefully dropping off cargo?

For the most part (especially with cars) there's barely a difference in Size Modifier and Handling, but a system of Handling-as-handleability would add some granularity. For instance, an agile, high-tech SM+5 VTOL could handle a landing on a normal helipad much better than an ordinary SM+5 Utility Helicopter.

Parking is a mundane feature until the adventurers have to park the Mystery Van in a cave or pull their black Cadillac into an alley without scraping the sides and making a lot of noise.

What do you think?
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[1] Technically, large cargo ships don't often dock themselves, since they're nudged into place by tugboats, but parking

Re: How Handling Affects Handling... Cargo
 

Um... as far as I'm aware, that's exactly RAW already.

Re: How Handling Affects Handling... Cargo
 

Oh. Then my idea was so good it made it into the book retroactively! Excellent!

Re: How Handling Affects Handling... Cargo
 

Don't forget that speed on docking ect... also is a factor.
While your jet fighter: Hnd+5 & Cargo Jet: Hnd+2 may be more agile than a zepplin: Hnd-4, the Zepplin isn't going to destroy all the cargo & people any more than a large ship: hnd-4 would.

Re: How Handling Affects Handling... Cargo
 

We also should have avoided parking the fusion-rocket VTOL near the open-seam coal pit.