[Torg] Jumping in Torg

[Kansas Jim]

Benjmain Grant wrote:

> Followup - what if instead of a human jumping we are driving a car jumping a
> gap - how far can we jump going 30mph?  How far going 100 mph?  What if the
> car has 1 ton of extra cargo in the trunk? Do limits values still apply?  Is
> the system by which this is determined consistent with the system by which
> we determine how far a human jumps?

There are no rules in the game for determining how far a vehicle can
jump, not even the expanded vehicle rules in the Kanawa Land Vehicles
Catalog mentions it.

The Mythbusters found that you could jump a car about 172 feet if it's
going 70 mph and uses a ramp at 30 degrees. (The car was totaled, but
of course that never happens in the movies!) In Torg terms that would
be a jump distance value of 9 while traveling at a speed value of 13.
That difference of four is only one away from the 'average DEX - 5'
rule for determining the long jump limit value, if we substitute a
vehicle's speed value for 'average DEX' maybe a 30 degree ramp is worth
a +1 to the jump distance? Or perhaps the Mythbusters got a +1 push
result on their jump attempt thanks to the DN being reduced a few points
for using a ramp?

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Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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