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Flight Use: May be used unskilled, but only by characters capable of self-powered flight. Macro skill use for long-distance travel. Sample specializations: Types of maneuvers (speed push, divebombing, gliding, etc.) This skill is a measure of a character’s ability to move through the air under her own power. Of the major races involved in the Possibility Wars, the only races that possess natural powers of flight are stalengers, larendi, technodemons and ravagons. Nile pulp heroes with the Flight pulp power can also use this skill. Characters who possess a non-innate ability to move through the air, such as those who use a magical flight spell or possess a weird science gizmo with the Flight pulp power, may at the gamemaster’s discretion also use this skill if there is no other skill more suitable to the control and operation of their particular mode of flight. Flying characters can use the skill to increase their movement value with a speed push (see Chapter Four) and it can be substituted for the character’s dodge and maneuver skills while the character is in flight. Heavy Weapons* Use: Unskilled use penalized. Sample limitations: Catapults, ballistae, cannons, machine guns, mortars, bazookas, howitzers, rockets, missiles, laser cannons, field blasters, fixed-mount vehicle weapons Axiom: Tech 11 Heavy weapons is a broad skill category covering the characters ability to set up, fire and maintain a ranged weapon of the specified limitation. Heavy weapons includes any ranged weapon that is too large to be considered hand-held or operated by one person. “Fixed-mount vehicle weapons” is a special limitation. It allows a character to operate all of the heavy weapons on a particular type of vehicle rather than just one type of heavy weapon. For example, a character with heavy weapons(F-15 Eagle) would be able to fire both the 20mm autocannon and the air-to-air missiles of an F-15 Eagle fighter jet with the one skill instead of having to buy separate heavy weapons skills for each type of heavy weapon. A character generates a heavy weapons total to hit when attacking with a heavy weapon in combat. Dodge is the defensive skill used against heavy weapons. The skill can also be used to make minor repairs to heavy weapons as well as perform routine maintenance tasks to keep a weapon in good working condition. Chapter Three: Attributes and Skills Lock Picking+ Use: Cannot be used unskilled without the appropriate tools. Unskilled use with tools penalized. Macro skill. Sample specializations: Door locks, padlocks, safes, bank vaults, combination locks Axiom: Tech 10 This skill gives its user the ability to surreptitiously open locks and safes with physical tumblers and mechanisms. The use of the lock picking skill requires a set of picks or tools, though a skilled character can improvise tools out of hairpins, paper clips, a screwdriver, etc. Unskilled characters cannot improvise and so are unable to use lock picking if they do not have a proper set of tools. Some types of locks, such as combination locks, can be picked without any tools. Locks that do not have physical mechanisms for the character to manipulate, such as an electronic lock or a magical ward, cannot be defeated with this skill. Electronic locks require the security skill and magical wards fall under the divination magic skill. Lock picking cannot be used to disarm traps and alarms that may be around or attached to locks, but a character can detect the presence of an alarm or trap on a lock by making a successful skill check against the difficulty of the lock itself. Disarming the trap or alarm will require the use of another skill, such as security. LOCK PICKING CHART Sample locks Difficulty Typical interior residential door 5 Typical interior office door 8 Padlock, exterior door 10 Wall safe/deadbolt 13 Bank vault Modifiers 18 Poorly constructed lock -3 Well constructed lock +2 High-security lock +4 No short time limit -3 Blueprints and diagrams -3 Specialized tools -1 To -5 Example: Barbara’s ninja Yukitada is trying to break out of an Ayslish dungeon. The guards took all of her equipment but she is 41
TORG: Revised and Expanded Rulebook able to improvise a lock pick from a piece of wire hidden in one of her shoes. The lock on the door is a padlock for a base difficulty of 10. It is well constructed which increases the difficulty by +2. Yukitada knows that the guards won’t return until morning though so there is no real time limit, which decreases the difficulty by -3. The final difficulty is 9. Yukitada’s lock picking skill is 14. Barbara rolls a 9, which is a bonus of -1, for an action total of 13. Yukitada plays with the lock for a little while and easily opens it. Long Jumping Sample specializations: Standing broad jump, running long jump This is the ability to leap and jump over pits, chasms, and other obstacles. Every character has a jumping limit value (see Chapter One) which represents how far they can jump without much effort. The long jumping skill helps characters jump farther than their limit value and to make jumps in less than optimal conditions. Increasing the distance the character jumps is treated as a speed push (see Chapter Four) while making difficult jumps that are within the character’s jumping limit value is done against a difficulty number determined by the gamemaster based on the circumstances. The following modifiers are used when a character has to make a push roll with long jumping. The gamemaster can also take them into account when determining the difficulty number for non-push jumps. LONG JUMPING MODIFIERS Condition Modifier Flat surface to flat surface +0 Unlimited landing area -2 Limited landing area +2 Very small landing area +4 Rough/unsteady terrain +2 Or more Downhill landing site -2 Uphill landing site +4 Carrying a heavy load +2 Or more The jumping limit values in Chapter One assume that the jumper had the time and space to take a running start. Standing jumps subtract two from the distance value jumped. Being able to take off at less than full speed reduces the distance value by one. Example: Paul’s character Quin is trying to escape from a pack of edeinos warriors and has his back up against a deep chasm. The chasm is six meters across but Quin’s jumping limit value is 3, which translates to only four meters. He will have to try and push his jumping enough to make it across. Quin does not have the long jumping skill so he uses his Dexterity. Fortunately for Quin there is no unskilled use penalty. Paul rolls and tells Becky his action total. She calculates the result of his speed push and tells him that he got a +1 result, which will increase his jumping limit value from 3 to 4. However, the edeinos are close enough to Quin that he didn’t have enough space to run up to full speed so his jumping distance value is reduced by one point, back down to 3. Quin sails through the air but only travels four meters, well short of the other side of 42 the chasm so he falls! A convenient ledge saves his life, knocking the breath from him (Becky will apply some falling damage to Quin using the rules in Chapter Four) as the edeinos cluster at the top of the chasm. Maneuver Sample specializations: Unarmed, armed, balance This skill represents a character’s mobility in combat. While its specific use is to tire out opponents, it can also be used to put opponents off balance by “faking them out” and provide the character with a tactical advantage. Maneuver is defended against by the maneuver skill. Timed Movement You can find out the time value for how long it takes a character to move a particular distance by subtracting the appropriate movement limit value (or speed value if the character is moving at less than his limit value) from the distance value, then adding five. That value, when converted through the Value Chart in Chapter Four, is about how long it takes the character to cover that distance. Characters can increase their speed above their limit value with a macro use speed push, reducing the amount of time required, but they will suffer the detrimental effects of the speed push at the end of their movement (see Chapter Four for the details.) Example: Paul’s character Quin is trying to run a kilometer as fast as he can. His running limit value is 9, reduced by two because of the distance involved, to a 7. Quin does not have the running skill so his Dexterity is used to generate the action total for the speed push. Paul rolls fairly well and Becky tells him the result of his speed push is a +2 bonus to his speed value. This brings his speed value back up to 9. A kilometer has a distance value of 15, so subtracting nine from that and then adding five produces a time value of 11. A time value of 11 is 150 seconds, so the run takes Quin about two and a half minutes. If Quin was not trying to run as fast as possible and just ran at his running limit value, his time value would have instead been 13 which converts to about six minutes. It takes longer, but Quin doesn’t suffer the side effects from making a speed push. To calculate how far a character can travel in a specific amount of time, the formula is only slightly different. The time value is added to the character’s limit (or speed) value and five is subtracted from that number. That value, when converted through the Value Chart, will be the distance covered in that amount of time. For example, a character with a speed value of 8 who runs for one minute (a time value of 9) will cover a distance value of (8 + 9 - 5) 12, which is 250 meters. These formulas work with all of the macro use movement skills; beast riding, climbing, flight, running and swimming. They can also be used with vehicles and the vehicle skills, air vehicles, land vehicles, space vehicles and water vehicles.
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