I have recently been rereading the rules for vehicle combat and rigging to resolve questions that occuring in current game. I have been encountering that many of the things allowed in game were actually HR of long standing. So the followign are a few questions to find the page numbers I'm looking for.

Vehicle Dodging - This needs its own section in the rigging chapters.

1] Can only riggers dodge while driving?
2] Can riggers use both combat and control for dodge tests?
3] Can they dodge vehicle maneuvers as well as ranged attacks?
4] Is the target number for a vehicular dodge test the handling rating or 4?

Only Riggers can dodge while driving, they can only use Control Pool, the TN is the Handling rating. Not sure about 3.

~J

Well, Control Pool is used for vehicular dodging tests, right? Only riggers have a Control Pool, so, even if there is no explicitly stated rule prohibiting non-riggers from making dodge tests when driving, they still can't because they lack the appropriate dice pool.

Didn't they change the -2*VCR level to just -VCR level?

EDIT: Or was that change for driving tests?

Yes, and he also gets to deal with the up to +8 from terrain and velocity factors.

Ah, Driving Tests have different modifiers than some of the others. Thanks for pointing that out.

On the other hand, keep in mind that as long as one avoids driving unfamiliar vehicles or excessively large vehicles of type, everything that adds to the dodge TN adds to the attack TN as well.

~J

Thanks for the page ref!

So riggers could use combat or control.

Without VCR driving could use combat.

Hideous target numbers could result from speed, terrain, and/or damage. VCR, natch, has advantage.

Am I missing something?

You are missing the fact that combat pool is never valid for vehicle dodge, yeah.

Er, wait. Wording is vague. Let me reread and get back to you…

Ok. It all hinges on what you think one part of what I quoted means. The relevant part: "Riggers may attempt to dodge[…]using Control Pool instead of Combat Pool". More specifically, the initial "Riggers may" and whether it is indicating the entire group of people who can dodge or simply specifying a special rule for a subset, and the use of the phrase "instead of Combat Pool", which could either imply that you could otherwise use Combat Pool or it could be phrased that way to make the difference from an ordinary non-vehicle dodge test clear.

I will have to think on this one.

~J

Where are you seeing in the rules that non-riggers are not allowed to dodge? Don't have my book but I'd look in the rules pertaining to Captain's Chair, Driving with a Datajack, and any cross references.

Dodging is obviously part of the Bill of Rights, it's all mucked up.

We hold these truths to be self evident ...death, incarceration, and pursuit by happy triggered SWAT teams.

This is why I allow non riggers a control pool equal to their natural reaction.

I'm not finding one. Looking, though…

~J

I'm not even seeing anything about "dodge tests" on page 133, like the quote refers us to, or anything in the errata that fixes that page reference.

It's a misprint. The real page is 113.

~J

Wow. So it is a referall to the plain old "Dodge Test" rules, not some wonky "Vehicle Dodge Test," like I was assuming. Huh. That's sort of a lean towards the "anyone can dodge when they're driving" interpretation, I'd say.

It seems pretty clear to me that the "instead of combat pool" part is included for the purpose of clarifying that you use the normal dodge rules on page 133 (where by 133 they meant 113), except you use control pool instead of combat pool.

Rigger 3 has a similar line on page 80. While this is in a section on optional rules for integrating vehicles into normal combat, note that there is a clarification involved that makes this quote relevant even if the option is not used: