Re: [HoE] Hell on Bikes?

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

At 10:19 PM 9/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>O.K. gang - listen to this one.  Just got an email from a new player
>joining the posse this Sunday and she wants to play a "kid road warrior
>type that rides a BMX bike"...wants to do jumps and bunny-hops into
>mutie's heads and such I guess  Okee-doke, I say (being the ever-lovin'
>Wahoo kind of Marshal I am). So here's the question: how exactly would
>you folks handle bicycle (yeah - the "man powered" kind) driving (and
>combat?!) in this system?  


Well, drivin' is nimbleness ain't it? I suppose you could do a fightin':
bike skill, or have her roll drivin': bike with a penalty of some sort
(around a -4 would be my guess).  I'd probably go with fightin': bike, and
tell her that because its such a large and relatively unbalanced weapon,
maybe give her a -2 to all her rolls. As for the stats, I'd call a bike a
large club and give it 1d6 damage (maybe 1d8 if I was feeling generous) or
somewhere in that neighborhood. Defensive bonus... hmm. I don't know.
Probably -1, since the bike would limit her movement to roughly forwards
and backwards (yes, I know BMX experts are more creative than that, but
those are in the best conditions on relatively flat surfaces). And it's
going to have a speed of 2 at the minimum. I might allow a drivin' roll TN
5 to 7 to reduce the speed to 1, but that may be too generous.