Vehicles

Pilot. A creature on a vehicle can take the use an object action to become the vehicle's pilot until it leaves the vehicle, or loses focus. Only one creature can pilot a vehicle at a time.

Vehicle movement. In combat, each vehicle can move once per round.

• The pilot, if there is one, can take the use an object action to move the vehicle any distance up to its speed (minimum 0).
• On initiative count 0, the vehicle moves the same distance and in the same direction as it did the last time a pilot caused it to move.

Crashes. Vehicles can crash into obstacles, typically during their movement, or when a Called Shot is used against them.

If the obstacle is a creature or a piloted vehicle, that creature or pilot can make a Speed or Technique roll to avoid the crash. If the vehicle that is crashing into that obstacle has a pilot, this is a contested roll against this pilot - otherwise, it is an Easy (DC 8) roll. If the obstacle succeeds, the crash doesn't happen, and can't happen again this turn.

If the crash does happen, the obstacle takes 4d6! damage from being rammed into. If it is a vehicle, any creature on it also takes the damage.

If the obstacle is at least half the crashing vehicle's size, then the crashing vehicle, as well as any creature currently on it, also takes 4d6! damage from the collision.

Any creature or object which loses at least 1 hit point because of a crash is pushed 5m in a random direction chosen by the Plot Twister.

Vehicle types. There are two types of vehicles:

• Individual vehicles can only carry one or two riders, and are typically only used for short distances.
• Group Vehicles are large enough that they can sometimes accommodate the entire party, and their individual vehicles. They are often necessary for journeys that last multiple days.

Capacity: Each vehicle has a capacity. For individual vehicles, the capacity shows how many humans can ride it at once. For group vehicles, this capacity also shows how many mounts, or individual vehicles can be carried aboard.

Stations. Vehicles can be customized in various ways, by adding stations which can be weapons, sensors, habitats for their crew, etc... Each vehicle has a grid highlighting where stations can be placed.

As part of a long rest, you can add stations to a vehicle, remove them, move them to a different location on the same vehicle, swap an existing station with a different one, etc...

Repairing a vehicle. Vehicles have hit points and a damage threshold just as player characters do. As part of a long rest, you can repair a vehicle to make it regain lost hit points. For each hit point regained in this way, you must spend a quantity of 🛠 scrap equal to the vehicle's damage threshold.

If a vehicle belonging to the player characters is reduced to 0 hit, it can still be repaired. If it belongs to an enemy NPC, the vehicle is destroyed instead, and can only be scrapped for parts.

Travel Pace. The wasteland's damaged terrain cannot be traversed very quickly or reliably. No matter what the top speed of a vehicle is, here is how far vehicles can travel for a given length of time:

• 1 hour: 20km (10 miles)
• An entire night (~10 hours): 200km (100 miles)
• 24 hours without stopping: 400km (200 miles)

On Running Vehicle Combat

The Plot Twister should consider the following advice to design fun vehicle combat encounters:

• Reduce the distance between the players & their enemies as much as possible before getting into combat.
• Put the players on different vehicles (or mounts), so they stay in control of their own movement, and melee-based characters get a chance to shine.
• Put interesting obstacles in the terrain, such as ramps to do cool tricks off of, debris to use as cover, destructible things which can create obstacles for pursuers, or a sandstorm which obstructs visibility.

These vehicles can only carry 1 or 2 people.

These vehicles can carry the entire party, as well as the individual vehicles or mounts of each player character.

Stations can be installed on a vehicle to give it additional abilities.