There are many different aspects of Shadow Run that allows for GM interpretation. Frankly, that's part of the awesomeness of the game. However, I'm curious to see how everyone else handles this particular aspect of our favorite RPG.

~ Vehicle Combat ~



OK, I love this game. Everything from the setting to the interplay between attributes and skills make me a happy camper. Now I'm reading up on vehicle combat (since that came up this past game) and I find that we could be WELL through shooting everyone behind the wheels of the other cars before we could perform ANY more stunts! And even if you COULDNT kill off the opposition, your PCs are stuck for 20 TURNS before you have a chance to get away?!

EDIT: WAIT!


Bolding is mine.
You seriously expect people to wait 60 COMBAT TURNS AT LEAST to escape? Even if that's a reset button, I'm not seeing it.

Ok, I fully believe that I've missed something. I'm misinterpreting the rules somehow. How do you all handle this?
Did I miss something?
Do you house rule via "Rule of Cool"?
Do you skip some number of combat turns?
Discuss!

Generally speaking, you don't mix combat and chase combat turns or movement - you're either in one or the other. If you've got a passenger or a rigger using weapons, they're in chase turns as well. So, no shooting at the other vehicle 120 times while breaking off.

The chase combat turn = 20 combat turns is only particularly useful if you've got both going on simultaneously because of a split group or similar.

I suppose I can get behind that line of thinking due to this block of text. So for all intents and purposes, I'm just taking Combat Turns and extending them to 1 minute each. Sure, why not

Same issue I had this past session and that's the same conclusion I came to. I think the 20 combat turns is just there are reference.

So, what I did was just run a normal combat turn, except each was 1 minute long. The driver got to do his stunt each turn (which means it could take a minimum of three minutes to break off), but each player got his normal IPs worth of action. Just that it was spanning a minute.

Right. i even think it is pretty reasonable. As a cybered dude with say 3 IP's you get to shoot (semiautomatic) 6 times. in 60 seconds. That is pretty ok in a chase. You know, all this stunts, traffic, dodges... you can get a clear shot every 10 seconds is ok. And if you think about it. With acceleration and such. Three minutes till the better car is gone is realistic too, i would think. (Of course not if you drag against a dude on a moped with a Westwind on a clear freeway... then 10 seconds should be enough *g*)