Ride Schticks (Action)

Heroic Action Role-Play

Drifter

Inherent

You spend a lot of time on the road, and have a tendency to just happen to be there when it happens. Any time another character needs help, you can show up if it's at all plausible. If you have a hard time coming up with a plausible explanation, everyone present can offer an explanation for how you happened to arrive in time; you get to pick the one you like best.

Fast Hero

You are a lucky guy; people tend to leave their cars empty with the motor running near you. At any time when it makes any kind of sense in the story you can find vehicles suitable for a chase ready and waiting for both you and your opposition, turning an ordinary scene into a chase scene. If an enemy makes a getaway you will generally find a suitable vehicle to chase them with, but sometimes villains are meant to escape and no pursuit will be possible.

Phat

You may not be in the best of shape. Too many hamburgers, to few steps outside the car. But in the car, you dance like a ballerina.

Normally, the effective Speed of a driver and his vehicle is the lower of the two Speed values. You can ignore your own Speed when you are behind the wheel, using only the Speed of your ride.

Signature Ride

Inherent

The schtick applies to a single, actual ride; if your signature ride is a purple Cadillac with zebra print seat covers, fuzzy dice and a genuine mink steering wheel, you only get the bonus in that particular purple Caddy: No other Cadillac (no matter how purple) gives the bonus. Unique Signature Rides have a form of script immunity, a villain may steal if from you, but it will always pop up somewhere later in the story. It will never become permanently lost or destroyed. A signature ride is very precious, and can be held hostage if someone manages to steal it.

A signature ride has three Fortune points stored in it, that you can only use when driving it. You don't have to use those points to actually drive the car; they can be good for other things you do while driving, such as impressing chicks. You just need to give a vaguely plausible explaination.