Engineering Field - Off-Road Customizers

[berserkx33]

Off-Road Customizers



(For more information about Engineering Fields and related rules, consult the following thread: Engineering Field)

The Off-Road Customizers are specialized on one thing, and one thing only, their vehicles. The people who follow this field want to create new ways of making their vehicles cooler, making them more useful, more dangerous or just sleaker (Who am I kidding, it is always to make it sleaker). Who needs roads when you can drive up walls.

Gadgets from this field are applied to Vehicles.

Tier 1 - Amateur

1* Command: Step on the Gas
This Gadget activates when you start movement with your vehicle.

2* Function: Easy Deploy, 5 Charges
Choose an equipment of the "Other Ranged Weapons" type and equip it to this Gadget. It's Attack Roll will be based on your Tech Use instead of the equipment's relevant roll.

Tier 2 - DIY

2* Function: Auto Jacks, 3 Charges
When activated, this gadget will launch up in the air, jumping up to (Tech Use+Intelligence) Meters. Consider that any fall from up to that height is automatically safe.

1* Function: Belt Tires, 3 Charges
Anything this gadget is attached to will not be directly affected by the effects of terrain for 1 turn.

Tier 3 - Enthusiast

2* Command: Step on the Break
This Gadget activates when the vehicle ceases movement.

2* Function: Nitro, 3 Charges
When activated, this Gadget will increase the movement speed of whatever it is attached to by 50%.

Tier 4 - Experienced

1* Function: Deflector, 3 Charges
When activated, this Gadget will give whatever it is attached to a shielding with the stats of a Carapace Tier Armor (AP 7) for 1 turn.

2* Function: Frogger, 5 Charges
When activated, this Gadget will give whatever it is attached to the "Anfibian" trait, allowing it to work inside bodies of liquid matter or vacuum.

Tier 5 - Expert

3* Function: High Speed Action, 2 Charges
Drive actions get +0k2, when using Vehicle mounted Gadgets during the turn this was activated give them +1k0.

[Traskus]

1.

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1* Command: Step on the Gas
This Gadget activates when you start movement with your vehicle.

Define "start movement." I assume you mean when you increase your vehicle's momentum from 0 to 1.

2* Function: Easy Deploy, 5 Charges
Choose an equipment of the "Other Ranged Weapons" type and equip it to this Gadget. It's Attack Roll will be based on your Tech Use instead of the equipment's relevant roll.

My understanding is "you may use tech use in place of ballistics on your next attack using it."
There are no "other ranged weapons."
*Its attack roll

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2.

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2* Function: Auto Jacks, 3 Charges
When activated, this gadget will launch up in the air, jumping up to (Tech Use+Intelligence) Meters. Consider that any fall from up to that height is automatically safe.

"This gadget" means nothing. "The target affected by this gadget" is what you want.

3.

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2* Command: Step on the Break
This Gadget activates when the vehicle ceases movement.

I assume you mean "when its momentum is reduced to 0."

2* Function: Nitro, 3 Charges
When activated, this Gadget will increase the movement speed of whatever it is attached to by 50%.

"Movement speed" is vague. There's vehicle speed, drive rating, and momentum.
It also does not list a time frame.
Remove "When activated, this Gadget will." The player will understand that using the gadget does a thing.

4.

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1* Function: Deflector, 3 Charges
When activated, this Gadget will give whatever it is attached to a shielding with the stats of a Carapace Tier Armor (AP 7) for 1 turn.

See "Nitro."
"The target gains +7 AP for the next turn." The player can fluff it as desired.

2* Function: Frogger, 5 Charges
When activated, this Gadget will give whatever it is attached to the "Anfibian" trait, allowing it to work inside bodies of liquid matter or vacuum.

See "Nitro."
This needs a duration.
"The target gains the Amphibious trait. If the target is a vehicle, it instead may traverse liquids, gaining the environmental seals accessory and the diver down modification."

5.

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3* Function: High Speed Action, 2 Charges
Drive actions get +0k2

I assume you mean Control Tests.

[chippo]

Jun 23, 2019 12:55:53 GMT -6 Traskus said:

There are no "other ranged weapons."

I figure berserk is referring to the table on pg 208, Book 1, which lists the primitive ranged weapons (bows, crossbows, etc...), launchers, and grenades/missiles. That being said, it should probably specify the categories of weapon intended to work with it, rather than call to a table that most won't likely know by name.

[berserkx33]

Jun 23, 2019 14:28:29 GMT -6 chippo said:

Jun 23, 2019 12:55:53 GMT -6 Traskus said:

There are no "other ranged weapons."

I figure berserk is referring to the table on pg 208, Book 1, which lists the primitive ranged weapons (bows, crossbows, etc...), launchers, and grenades/missiles. That being said, it should probably specify the categories of weapon intended to work with it, rather than call to a table that most won't likely know by name.

Yes. That is specifically the table I was talking about.

[chippo]

To avoid a rambling, go-nowhere tangent, I'll sum it up as this: "Other Ranged Weapons" is not a type, it's a table. "Launcher" is a type. "Primitive" is a type. "Grenade" is a type. Specifying the actual types may require more work, but it'll accomplish the task more clearly and with less confusion, while unambiguously opening up homebrew weapons of those types as potential options. This isn't even mentioning what you're supposed to do if you choose a primitive weapon with composite, assuming homebrew options are available.

[berserkx33]

Jun 29, 2019 19:59:28 GMT -6 chippo said:

To avoid a rambling, go-nowhere tangent, I'll sum it up as this: "Other Ranged Weapons" is not a type, it's a table. "Launcher" is a type. "Primitive" is a type. "Grenade" is a type. Specifying the actual types may require more work, but it'll accomplish the task more clearly and with less confusion, while unambiguously opening up homebrew weapons of those types as potential options. This isn't even mentioning what you're supposed to do if you choose a primitive weapon with composite, assuming homebrew options are available.

Thanks, I will keep that in mind when I remake this one too.