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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 1962588" data-attributes="member: 26473">Tumble in a trained-only skill, so you'll just have to make the Jump check then the Reflex save for Normand to land safely. In any case a hard landing is unlikely to kill you, just knock you around a bit.The mechanic is based on one detailed by Rich Redman, one of the designers of d20 Modern - he suggested the Jump check and also said that Pilot and the Aircraft Operations (parachute) feat are required for parachuting. Since parachuting and flying a Cessna are two very different things, and your characters aren't operating parafoils, I thought that seemed excessive and trimmed it down a bit. The mechanic relies on the existing falling rules as well - the 20' drop came from conversations with my uncle and my father-in-law, paratroopers who saw service in Europe and Asia respectively.I'm going to post a couple of other house rules, including the paradrop rules, later. I've got one for suppressing fire (making it a special attack for characters without the Suppressing Fire feat from Ultramodern Firearms), a vehicle acceleration rule I picked up, and the Cool check, another Rich Redman joint from his "Notes from the Bunker" article series on the d20 Modern website at WotC.Correct on the ammunition: five box mags totalling 50 rounds, two grenades, and a combat knife (the kind without the compass, matches, and secret decoder ring).The web gear and combat knife are of American manufacture - the rest is French-made. Other units of the French army made extensive use of U.S. equipment - expect to see M1 Garands among both sector troops and the fellaghas (the ALN fighters), for example - and nearly all of your transport will be American surplus - jeeps, Dodge weapons carriers (known as the PowerWagon in its civilian incarnation, one of the all-time great 4x4 trucks), deuce-and-a-halfs, halftracks, and C-47s, when you're not being dropped from Nordstars, of course.</blockquote>

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