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Speed Def Hard HP Size PurchaseDC Restriction Civilian Cars
Mid-size sedan 1 4 300 lb. -2 -1 265 (26) 8 5 34 H 29 Lic (+1) Luxury sedan 1 4 325 lb. -2 +0 280 (28) 8 5 34 H 32 Lic (+1) Sports coupé 1 1 200 lb. -2 +0 310 (31) 8 5 32 H 30 Lic (+1)
Civilian Motorcycles
Racing bike 1 0 0 lb. +0 +3 350 (35) 10 5 18 M 27 Lic (+1) Street bike 1 1 0 lb. -1 +1 270 (27) 9 5 22 L 26 Lic (+1) Dirt bike 1 1 0 lb. +0 +2 165 (16) 10 5 18 M 23 Lic (+1)
Civilian Trucks
Sports utility vehicle
(SUV) 1 3 1,000 lb. -2 -2 140 (14) 8 5 38 H 34 Lic (+1)
Minivan 1 5 350 lb. -2 -2 185 (19) 8 5 34 H 28 Lic (+1)
Pickup 1 2 1,600 lb. -2 -2 175 (17) 8 5 34 H 27 Lic (+1)
Civilian Water Vehicles
Runabout 1 5 2,100 lb. -2 -2 55 (5) 8 5 28 H 28 Lic (+1) Cabin cruiser 1 3 2,100 lb. -4 -4 80 (8) 6 5 40 G 32 Lic (+1) Personal watercraft 1 1 60 lb. -1 +1 105 (10) 9 5 22 L 24 Lic (+1)
Civilian Cars
Most new civilian cars include such standard features as air bags, antilock brakes, cruise and an AM/FM radio. Luxury vehicles often also include extras such as leather
upholstery, and sunroofs. In general, these luxury amenities can be added to a nonluxury car with an increase of 1 to the vehicle's purchase DC.
Unless otherwise noted, civilian cars provide three-quarters cover for their occupants (although passengers who lean out of windows or sunroofs, perhaps to fire weapons, may be reduced to one-half or even one-quarter cover).
Mid-size sedan: This vehicle is a generic a four-door sedan. It is two squares wide and
four squares long.
Sports coupé: The sports coupé is a two-door sports car equipped with a 5.7-liter, 350-
horsepower V8 engine. It is two squares wide and three squares long.
Luxury sedan: This vehicle is a four-door luxury sedan equipped with a powerful 5.5-
liter, 349-horsepower V8 engine. It is two squares wide and four squares long.
Civilian Motorcycles
Unlike getting into a car, mounting a motorcycle is a free action. Motorcycles tend to perform better than automobiles, but they provide no cover to their occupants.
Racing bike: This is a top-of-the-line racing bike with a long history of winning races. It
is one square wide and two squares long.
Street bike: This huge motorcycle sports a 1,450cc engine. It's designed to look cool and
compete for space on the roads with automobiles. It is one square wide and two squares long.
Dirt bike: A classic dirt bike, this is very similar to the motorcycle used by most modern-
day army scouts. It is one square wide and two squares long.
Civilian Trucks
Trucks include pickups, sport utility vehicles, and minivans. They generally have the same features as civilian cars.
Like cars, trucks generally provide three-quarters cover to their occupants. The rear bed of a pickup truck, however, provides only one-half cover.
Sports utility vehicle (SUV): The four-door truck is a civilian version of the military's
all-terrain utility vehicle. It comes equipped with a powerful 6.5-liter, 195-horsepower V8 turbo diesel engine. It is decked out like a luxury vehicle inside, but this vehicle is every bit as rugged as the military version.
The military version can be configured in a variety of ways, including a two-door pickup, a four-door pickup with a short bed, and a completely enclosed, SUV-like body with a hatchback and four doors. It lacks the luxury accessories of the civilian version, but it is equipped with puncture-resistant tires.
A SUV is two squares wide and four squares long.
Minivan: The generic minivan has two conventional doors up front, sliding doors on the
side, and a rear hatch-style door. It is two squares wide and four squares long.
Pickup: A pickup truck is a two-door vehicle with a back seat in its extended cab. It is
two squares wide and four squares long.
Civilian Water Vehicles
Piloting a water vehicle is covered by the Drive skill.
Runabout: This is a large runabout-a powerboat with an outboard engine and an open
cockpit with a tiny cabin (about the size of the interior of an economy car) forward. It comes with a trailer; loading or unloading it requires a paved boat ramp and 10 minutes of work. A runabout provides one-half cover to occupants in the cockpit or stern, full cover to occupants in the cabin, and no cover to those forward of the cockpit. It is two squares wide and four squares long.
Cabin cruiser: A cabin cruiser is a motor yacht with two internal diesel engines. It
comes equipped with four berths and a fully equipped galley. It provides one-half cover to occupants in the cockpit or stern, full cover to occupants below deck, and no cover to those forward of the cockpit. It is three squares wide and six squares long.
Personal watercraft: This is a two-seat jet ski that propels itself with a powerful jet of
water. It is one square wide and two squares long, and provides no cover for its riders.
Special Materials
There are several types of material that can be used to fashion weapons, armors or other appliances. Some of these materials have a special property, depending on how it was crafted.
If you make a suit of armor, or weapon, out of more than one special material, you gain only the benefits of the most prevalent material. You can, however, build a double weapon using a special material for each head, adding the cost for both heads of the weapon.
Dark Iron: This heavy iron ore is mined deep within the bowels of the earth, oftentimes
near volcanoes. This metal is not only heavy, but also particularly resistant. Items made without metal parts cannot be made of dark iron. An arrow, for example, could be made
of dark iron, but a quarterstaff could not.
Weapons made of dark iron ignore any hardness of 15 points or less when sudering weapons or attacking objects (but it does not ignore 15 points of hardness for sturdier materials). Armor made of dark iron grants its wearer a fire resistance of 1 if it's light armor, 2 if it's medium armor, and 3 if it's heavy armor.
Items made of dark iron weight half again as much as standard items. Dark iron has 30 hit points per inch of thickness, and a hardness of 15. Dark iron can bypass damage reduction of its appropriate type.
Heavy Dark Iron: This metal cannot be made into armor, and is thought to be a
mutation of dark iron. Heavy dark iron is extremely rare and also particularly heavy. An heavy dark iron weapon has an increased critical strike multiplier of +1. It ignores any hardness of 20 points or less when sundering weapons or attacking objects. Heavy dark iron has 40 hit points per inch and hardness 20.
Weapons made of heavy dark iron is treated as though it was one-size category larger than in reality, although the wielder suffers no penalties for improperly-sized weapons, neither is the damage increased, nor can he wield the weapon with two hands if it is not typically sized adequately. Therefore, a kunai is wielded as a Medium weapon, and a Katana or Greatsword requires the Monkey Grip feat to be used at all.
If the character cannot use both hands to wield the weapon, or throws the weapon, he suffers a -4 penalty to attack rolls; the Monkey Grip feat negates that penalty. Heavy dark iron weapons weigh nine times as much as normal items, and overcomes dark iron damage reductions.
Crafting items from heavy dark iron requires dark iron tools to avoid suffering a -8 penalties to crafting checks. Regardless of the tools used, crafting heavy dark iron weapons takes 6 times the normal amount of time because of the immensely heavy and resilient metal.
Nonlethal Weapons: These non-lethal versions of standard weapons are usually made of
wood or less dangerous materials. They have the same size, damage type and damage as the original, but weigh only a quarter of the natural weight, have a purchase DC 3 points lower (minimum half the original product) and can deal nonlethal damage without penalty, though dealing lethal damage with a nonlethal weapon incurs a -4 penalty to attack rolls.
Boken and Shinai are typically nonlethal weapons. Some weapons cannot be made nonlethals (such as any kind of explosive or firearm), at the GM's discretion. A nonlethal weapon has the hardness and hit points of a wooden weapon.
Silver: With the special process involved in making silver into armor and weapon, it can
On a successful attack with a silver weapon, the wielder takes a -1 penalty to damage rolls (minimum 1). Silver fashioned into armor has no other special quality than a reduced weight.
Silver items weigh only three quarters the standard weight of normal items, and have 10 hit points per inch and a hardness of 6.
Thorium: This silvery-gold colored, semi-rare metal has the special ability to accept and
focus chakra more easily. When worked like steel, thorium can be used to create amazing pieces of armor and other items as well.
The maximum Dexterity bonus of an armor made of thorium is increased by 1, and its armor check penalty is reduced by 2 (minimum 0). Furthermore, a character wearing a thorium armor gains a +2 equipment bonus to Chakra Control checks made for the purpose of converting Chakra to Hit Points.
Items made of thorium weigh half as much as normal items. In the case of weapons, the lighter weight does not change a weapon's size category or allow it to be wielded more easily.
An item made primarily of metal isn't affected by being crafted with thorium. Thorium has 30 hit points per inch of thickness and a hardness of 10. It also bypasses damage reduction of the appropriate type.
The table below shows how the Purchase DC of an item is increased (or decreased) by crafting it of special material. This applies to both the material cost and the purchase DC.