Advanced Movement

These are optional rules, primarily intended to enhance Ship Combat, but can also be used to supplement regular Movement rules.

VARIABLES

• distance - bonuses/penalties, multipliers/dividers
• stealth - sneak, hide, prestidigitation
• combat - duck, attack, flank
• Movement bonuses can be applied to:
  • add base movement distance
  • reduce distance dividers
  • reduce stealth penalties
  • reduce combat penalties

CIRCUMSTANCES

Circumstances are described by the applicable distance/stealth/combat affects.

• line of sight effects: distance or duck penalty
• physical fit effects: distance or duck penalty
• physical accuracy: prestidigitation check
• small obstacle effects: distance penalty or prestidigitation check
• large obstacle effects: line of sight + small obstacle + cover

EXAMPLES

Typical Bar

• The entryway in most bars is brightly lit and open so that beings coming and going are more obvious. Normal movement, -10 sneak/hide.
• Sections of empty tables/chairs slightly impede movement but offer visual cover. Agility difficulty of 5, or half movement. +5 to sneak / hide for beings <= 100 kg.
• Milling crowds severely impede movement, and visibility, but can be either helpful or hindering for stealth depending on mood. Agility difficulty of 10, or half movement. Average +7 sneak for beings similarly sized to the crowd, up to +10 for significantly smaller beings, or down to +4 sneak for larger beings. Friendly crowds can offer +10 to hide, hostile crowds can point out where you are causing -10 to hide. Also, low-awareness crowds can provide cover, while high-awareness crowds will simply get out of the way for incoming attacks.
• Large structural members and doorways can provide cover. ...

Movement Multiplier

• Only really available for maneuverability movement.
• Movement distance multiplier becomes negative to duck.
  • X2 movement reflects -2 to Duck
  • X3 movement --> -3 to Duck
  • etcetera
  • maximum is X10 movement and fully prone with -10 Duck
    

This may be too permissive.  An exponential scale may be more appropriate.

• Line-of-sight limitations might also be multiplied.