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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9237881" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 93/152: Jul/Aug 2002part 9/10Skills: This is the lightest skill list yet, stripping things down to 25, 3 of which are new. Demolitions, Repair and Treat Injury get described again just in case you didn’t get issue 150, unchanged apart from a minor tweak to the demolitions DC’s and the switch from VP/WP to HP. Falling damage is worse than normal if you’re travelling at high speed and get knocked from your vehicle, but you can mitigate that with a good jump or tumble roll. As usual, there’s a different list of knowledge categories to reflect the time and place. Not a great amount to comment on here then. As long as they do their job without causing undue hassle they can stay in the background where they belong. Feats: This is a little larger and more interesting, although there’s still a lot of repeated stuff from the previous issues. Discarding the inevitable +2 to two skills ones and basic proficiency bits, new ones worth commenting on include Back Seat Driver, so you can spend action points to boost vehicle rolls even when you’re not driving, Clipping, making you better at sideswiping other vehicles without damaging your own, Dirt Track Demon, for the off-road specialists, Drive-By, for whacking people without disrupting your driving, Vehicle Combat, which gives you an extra chance to avoid vehicle damage, and Window Dive, which obviously isn’t meant to be taken literally in every vehicle but reduces the time to hit the ignition and get driving from a full-round action to a move one. Fame and Infamy are renamed Circuit Hero & Heel. Heroic Surge is as useful as ever in a setting without magical Hasting. You shouldn’t have to worry about running out of things to buy over 10 levels. They do still have the trap feat of Extra Action Points though, evidently the long-term badness of taking that hasn’t been pointed out yet. While the overall amount of options you have is going up and they are tweaking things to fit each setting, it’s becoming obvious that there will be a lot of repeated material going through all these minigames in quick succession. As if I haven’t been complaining about the repetitiveness in the Dungeon side as well lately. Weapons & Combat: There’s also a fair amount of repetition in here, as they explain how modern equipment interacts with the 3e action economy, then list a whole bunch of new weapons. To their credit, these aren’t just a direct copy-paste from the Shadow Chasers ones, but a list more suited to the 70’s road warrior milieu, including nunchuks, machetes and tire irons. Most of them are pretty cheap as well, you’ll have no problem outfitting your guys unless you pour every penny into your souped up ride. (which will admittedly be a temptation) Another bit that does the job, but doesn’t leave me much to say about it, because it’s not the main focus of the game.</blockquote>

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