Nova Vehicles.pdf

Vehicles

For the Nova game engine

Vehicles

Vehicles for Nova

ehicles for the

Nova game engine,

Written by George Chatzipetros

Nova game engine,

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plete rules for v

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plete rules for veeee-

hicle combat and

cle combat and

a list of useful

equipment. Sorry,

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equipment. Sorry,

no spaceships.

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for new sourcebooks

These will have

their own private

sourcebook pretty

soon!

Vehicles for the

ehicles for the

Nova game engine,

along with co

plete rules for v

cle combat and

a list of useful

equipment. Sorry,

Go http://members.xoom.com/sidhe7

no spaceships.

These will have

their own private

sourcebook pretty

soon!

Contents

Vehicle basics…………….4

Vehicle attributes………………..4

Accidents………………………...4

Ramming………………………..4

Vehicle combat………….5

Effects of vehicle combat………5

Vehicle armor…………………..6

Vehicle tables……………7

Vehicle accessories……..13

Contents

Vehicle basics…………….4

Vehicle combat………….5

Vehicle tables……………7

Vehicle Basics

ehicle attributes

Much like characters, vehicles share

some common characteristics:

Acceleration:

age is ignored). As Resilience points

are lost, the vehicle gets the same

penalties to all control rolls as a char-

acter suffering from excessive Consti-

tution loss.

Safety:

add the result of a D3 roll. Every

passenger takes that many dice of

damage minus the sum of his Vitality

and Reaction dice (to account for

instinctive movements to protect

one’s self). At least one die of dam-

age is dealt. The damage t#s are all

equal to the vehicle’s Safety rating.

Damage is of kinetic type, but

any armor worn by passengers has its

kinetic rating reduced by 2 against

such high-velocity impacts (to a mini-

mum of –2). The damage dealt to

the vehicle if equal in damage dice to

the speed divided by 50. Damage t#s

are all 4.

the attack is largely determined by

the mass of the vehicle and its speed.

The damage dice are determined as

in an accident. The damage t#s are 5

in the case of relatively small vehicles

(like bikes), 4 for moderate ones

(cars) or 3 for large vehicles (trucks).

If the target is capable of reacting to

the ramming, a successful control skill

check must be made to hit him (like

an attack roll).

When ramming objects, you

must be careful for you might get

hurt like your target is. If the GM

rules that you hit an object too large,

you suffer an automatic accident. Ex-

actly when this happens is up to your

GM and depends on the mass of

your vehicle and that of your target.

A bike might be in serious trouble

even when hitting a person. A car

could get damaged if it hit a bar

which would be easily broken by the

mass of a truck.

Acceleration: How fast the vehicle

can increase speed. On every turn,

the vehicle can increase speed by this

amount up to the maximum speed.

However, when accelerating at more

than half of this rating, you have a

+1 penalty to skill checks for control-

ling the vehicle.

Armor:

Safety: This rating describes the

safety measures of a vehicle which

are vital in surviving an accident.

Speed:

Speed: The first number is the vehi-

cle’s cruise speed, while the second is

the maximum speed (in km/h). Trav-

eling above cruise speed inflicts a +2

penalty to all control rolls.

Armor: The natural protection a ve-

hicle has.

Autonomy:

Autonomy: Every vehicle is fueled by

some sort of power source which

tends to run out. The autonomy rat-

ing numbers the kilometers a vehicle

can cover before running out of fuel.

Capacity:

Accidents

Performing difficult maneuvers with

a vehicle requires a successful skill

check. If this roll fails, there’s always

the possibility of an accident occur-

ring (a critical failure means that an

accident is certain). The driver needs

to make another roll of average diffi-

culty to avoid crashing with the vehi-

cle (ass a +3 penalty if moving

above cruise speed).

If an accident occurs, it can

easily injure or even kill the passen-

gers of a vehicle, especially if moving

at high speeds. Divide the speed the

vehicle was moving at by 40 and

Ramming

Ramming something or someone

with a vehicle can prove very useful,

aside from the fact that it’s a lot of

fun. Crashing through gates or run-

ning people over are classic stunts of

action movies.

The damage dealt by a mov-

ing vehicle is always kinetic and al-

ways lethal (ie it deals Constitution

damage). As in an accident, any ar-

mor the target wears has its kinetic

rating reduced by 2. The potency of

Capacity: The number of persons the

vehicle can carry.

Handling:

Handling: Describes how easy it is to

control the vehicle. It is used as a

modifier to all skill checks concerning

control of the vehicle.

Mounting:

Mounting: The amount of extra

equipment the vehicle can carry.

Large equipment requires some of

the vehicle’s Mounting points.

Resilience:

Resilience: This rating is used as the

vehicle’s Constitution (Stamina dam-

Vehicle attributes

ehicle attributes

Acceleration:

Safety:

Speed:

Armor:

Autonomy:

Accidents

Ramming

Capacity:

Handling:

Mounting:

Resilience:

Vehicle Combat

Vehicle combat generally follows

most of the rules for personal com-

bat. There is still an initiative check,

as there are attack and damage rolls.

However, some modifications do

apply:

•

of the target (eg through a win-

dow). In the case of small win-

dows, the GM might apply a

cover modifier. If you have no

visibility, use the modifier for

complete darkness/blindness (+4).

Plain glass windows don’t offer

any protection to the target. This

may change if you try to shoot

through bulletproof glass or even

through the main body of the ve-

hicle to hit someone inside. In this

case, your shot needs to pene-

trate the material to hit the tar-

get. The target gets a base unar-

mored rating equal to the armor

rating of the glass or the vehicle

instead of his natural –2. Further-

more, the rating of any armor

he’s wearing is added to this. For

example, someone inside a vehi-

cle with armor 2/2/1 wearing no

armor himself, has armor 2/2/1 if

a shot has to penetrate through

the vehicle. If he also wears a

1/1/1 armor, his effective armor

becomes 3/3/2. Any attack which

wounds a vehicle’s driver forces

him to make a skill check to re-

tain control of the vehicle.

Effects of vehicle combat

A damaged vehicle is prone to mal-

functions and loss of function. Loss

of Resilience inflicts the same penalty

as loss of Constitution to all checks

for controlling the vehicle (+1 for

half Resilience, +1 for each point lost

thereafter). This penalty also applies

to attacks made with the vehicle’s

weapons.

Furthermore, for every lost

Resilience point beyond half, the

driver is forced to make a check for

retaining control.

Onboard systems, weapons,

even the vehicle’s engine may mal-

function. For every Resilience point

lost beyond half, a random system

on the vehicle is damaged. The exact

system is determined randomly by a

roll. Be sure to include the engine as

well as all installed devices and

weapons.

The effects of the damage on

the vehicle’s system is determined by

a D6 roll.

Roll

Effect

Unaffected

Temporary malfunction

Attacking from the inside of a ve-

ee-

Moderate damage

hicle: If the vehicle’s structure en-

ables this, anyone can put his gun

out of the window and start blaz-

ing away. Firing from a moving

vehicle in this manner suffers a +1

penalty, or a +2 one if the speed

is above 100 km/h.

Moderate damage

Severe damage

Destroyed

gine) and has a +1 penalty to all re-

lated rolls for D6 rounds.

Moderate damage:

•

Attacking with a mounted

g with a mounted

weapon: A weapon mounted on

the vehicle doesn’t suffer the gen-

eral +1 modifier. It only suffers a

+1 penalty if the speed is above

100 km/h.

Moderate damage: System loses

30% of functionality and has a +1

penalty. Any further result of 3-5 for

this system destroys it.

Severe damage:

Severe damage: Loss of 75% func-

tionality and +2 penalty. Any further

result of 3-5 destroys the system.

Destroyed:

•

Attacking a moving vehicle: All

characters have a +1 penalty

against moving vehicles. This rises

to +2 if their speed is above 100

km/h and +3 if above 500 km/h.

Destroyed: System loses all function-

ality. If this is the engine, the vehicle

grinds to a halt. An explosive

weapon explodes, dealing its dam-

age on the vehicle.

•

Attacking a person inside a vehi-

ii-

cle: An attack against a person

locate inside a vehicle suffers no

penalty (except those of the mov-

ing vehicle) if you have visibility

Temporary malfunction: System loses

50% of its functionality (reduce

Speed and Acceleration for the en-

Effects of vehicle combat

Effect

Attacking from the inside of a v

hicle:

Attackin

weapon:

Moderate damage:

weapon:

Severe damage:

Attacking a moving vehicle:

Destroyed:

Attacking a person inside a veh

cle:

Temporary malfunction:

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