[Torg] Jumping in Torg

[Kansas Jim]

Benjmain Grant wrote:

> Interesting - so if we use the speed value minus 5 as the basis, than a
> flash style super-speedster character going say 7500 mph (his max speed)
> would be a speed value of around what, 23?  23-5=18, meaning a jump distance
> of 4000 meters or about 13,125 feet (about 2.5 miles) long jumping.

I would hesitate to apply the same rules to a speedster. Even in the
comic books characters who can run at supersonic speeds don't usually
get superhuman long jumping ability to go with it. They probably do jump
farther than normal humans but nowhere near a couple of miles like your
example character. The superhero RPGs I'm familiar with don't give
speedsters anything special for their jumping distances either.

Off the top of my head, what I might do for speedsters and jumping would 
be to let them use the Power Push rather than the Speed Push chart but
still apply the normal human limit value to their jumps. So they'd have
a limit value of 3 like normal people but because of their enhanced
speed they can potentially take that up to a distance value of 9 (with
a max +6 power push result) instead of only a 5.

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