How Handling Affects Handling... Cargo

Tallor · 08-07-2016, 04:10 AM

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

Celti · 08-07-2016, 04:28 AM

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Campaigns, p. B466

The vehicle’s Handling (Hnd) statistic modifies all control rolls.

Tallor · 08-07-2016, 04:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celti

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

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

Tinman · 08-07-2016, 03:15 PM

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.

Tallor · 08-07-2016, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinman

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.

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

08-07-2016, 04:10 AM	#1
Tallor Join Date: May 2016	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? --------------------- [1] Technically, large cargo ships don't often dock themselves, since they're nudged into place by tugboats, but parking

08-07-2016, 03:15 PM	#4
Tinman Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: New York City	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.

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