Car Wars: Chassis & Crossbow

Players Handbook

Characters:

Each player begins with $12,000 to buy vehicles and equipment. Players can have as many characters as they can fit into their vehicles, up to four characters each. Each character begins with 80 skill points. No character can begin with a skill above level two. Your characters may purchase any weapons and supplies they can afford, except for firearms, explosives, and Kevlar armor.

Skills:

10/level

• Body Building (see optional rules below)
• Cyclist
• Driver
• Gunner
• Gunsmith (for repairing and modifying hand weapons and vehicle weapons)
• Handgunner (includes bows & thrown weapons — delete Archery skill)
• Luck (each level of Luck allows you to reroll one die roll per adventure)
• Martial Arts (includes all melee weapons — delete Blade skill)
• Mechanic
• Paramedic
• Runner (Base level free)
• Trucker

5/level

• Acrobatics (good for boarding moving vehicles)
• Area Knowledge
• Climbing
• Communications
• Computer Tech
• Explosives
• Fast-Talk
• Stealth
• Streetwise
• Survival
• Swimming
• Theft

New Body Building rules: The base level of bodybuilding adds +1 GE to the character's encumbrance limit. Level one gives the character +1 DP and adds 25 lbs. to the character's weight. The cycle repeats up to level four, so that the maximum limits for any character is GE 9, DP 5, and weight 200 lbs.

Missile Weapons:

• Crossbows take two turns to reload, Compound Bows take one turn to reload.
• Bows and firearms will always do at least one DP when they hit.
• Thrown rocks gain +1 damage for every 20 mph of collision speed.
• Pepper Spray: A hit to the Head forces the victim to roll on the Tear Gas table. A hit anywhere else gives the victim a +4 to his roll (a result of seven or greater means no effect). Gas masks provide complete protection.
• Molotov sets a ¾" square afire. All targets therein take full damage. On following turns, treat the square as a flaming oil slick. The fire burns out after five turns. Burn modifier 4/2.

Hand Weapon Accessories:

Folding stock: $10. For pistols: +1 GE, -1 to hit, +2" range. For long arms: -1 GE, +1 to hit, -2" range.

Telescopic sight (x2 range modifier when braced and stationary): $200.

Bulk Ammo Boxes: $50, one space, 10 lbs. Holds 12 GE worth of hand weapon magazines. Protects contents with one DP of vehicular armor.

Melee Weapons:

• Use brass knuckles stats for striking with small blunt objects like blackjacks, rocks, grenades, pistol butts, etc. Use light club stats for one-handed weapons like batons, nightsticks, tonfas, nunchakus, tire irons, and rifle butts. Use heavy club stats for two-handed weapons like shovels, monkey wrenches, baseball bats, staves, and chairs. Blunt weapons do no damage to tires.
• Use small knife stats for any small cutting or stabbing weapon like switchblades, pocket knives, ice picks, and concealable knives. Use large knife stats for larger edged weapons like bayonets, meat cleavers, butcher knives, tantos, bowie knives, and katars. Use Sword stats for heavy but balanced edged weapons like machetes, sabers, rapiers, katanas, short spears, etc.
• Use Spear stats for pikes, lances, and other long pole arms. When wielded by a charging cyclist, or set by a pedestrian to receive a charge, it does 1d-1 damage for every 25 mph of collision speed, up to a maximum of 3d-3. The spear is automatically lost in the target. On a critical miss, the attacker suffers 1d6-4 to his weapon arm per 25 mph.
• Hatchet stats will work for tomahawks, claw hammers, crowbars, maces, and one-handed sledges. Use Axe stats for two-handed swinging weapons like fire axes, pickaxes, and sledgehammers.
• Chainsaw: A critical miss (natural To Hit roll of 2) causes a broken chain. Repairing is an easy job for a Mechanic.
• Stun gun: Any hit on a pedestrian forces the victim to roll on the concussion grenade table. Add 2 plus the victim's armor DP to the roll.

Body Armor:

• Body Armor DP is not ablative.
• Leather armor, Fireproof suit, and Cycle Helmet DP protects against melee weapons, bows, and falls only. Fireproof suit DP also protects against fire damage.

Equipment:

Car Designs:

Vehicle types available to players: Cars, motorcycles, sidecars.

Engines larger than 350ci are rare (x2 cost).

Turbos and superchargers are rare (x2 cost).

Turbo-superchargers and NO² bottles are very rare (x4 cost).

Gasoline costs $3/gallon when available. May be rare, very rare, or worse in some areas.

Chassis: Every vehicle has chassis DP equal to its total spaces (including cargo spaces).

Drivers occupy two spaces. Gunners require one space only.

Rare items (x2 cost)

Tripod MG, MG, PFT, SS, OJ, SD, SMG, AR, MP, Laser Scope, PR Tires, HD Fuel Tanks.

Very Rare items(x4 cost)

VMG, ATG, Tripod RR, RR, FT, RL, MD, LAW, VLAW, Bazooka, GL, URGL, Stinger, Plastique, Pintle Mount, Solid Tires, Racing Fuel Tanks, External Weapon Pods.

Normal Price Weapons & Accessories:

Debris Dropper, Body Blades, Roll Cage, Metal Wheelguards, Portable Fire Extinguisher, Radial and Steel-belted tires, HD Tires, Brushcutter, Articulated mount, Ring Mount, Bumper Spikes, Safety Seats, Sunroofs, Car Top Carrier, Fake Passengers, Long Distance Radio, Portable Shop, Sound System, Spoilers & Airdams, Tow Bar, Trailer Hitch, Winch.

Articulated Mount: Mounted facing the front, back or to one side, the articulated mount allows vehicle or hand weapons to fire into these arcs. It requires a gunner to sit behind the weapon and physically move and fire it. Only the designated gunner may fire this weapon. The gunner still suffers a —1 to hit penalty. Costs $500, weighs 50 lbs., and takes one space in addition to the gunner and the weapon (hand weapons in articulated mounts require no additional space).

Ring Mount: Mounted on the top of a vehicle that has either a sun roof or no top armor. It requires a gunner standing behind the weapon to move and fire it. Only the designated gunner may fire the ring-mounted weapon. The weapon can be fired in a 360 degree arc, but can only swing 90 degrees in one turn. A ring mount for a one space weapon costs $1000, weighs 100 lbs., and requires no space (besides the space taken up by the gunner). A ring mount for a two space weapon costs $1500, weighs 200 lbs., and requires no space.

Pintle Mount: Mounted on the top of a vehicle that has either a sun roof or no top armor. It requires a gunner standing behind the weapon to move and fire it. Only the assigned gunner may fire the pintle-mounted weapon. The weapon can be fired into a 180 degree arc designated upon installation. A pintle mount for a one space weapon costs $600, weighs 20 lbs., and requires no space. A pintle mount for a two space weapon costs $1200, weighs 40 lbs., and requires no space.

Vehicle Armor: The skin of unarmored vehicles provides 1 DP protection versus hand weapons only. Other weapons cut right through unimpeded.

Metal armor is available at x10 weight, x5 price of plastic armor. This primitive metal armor has x2 DP value versus handguns, x3 DP value versus bows, melee weapons, and collisions.

Targeting a person in a car through a window = -5. If you miss by two or less, then you hit the car instead.