Driving

Driving
Driving is your ability to operate a car (and potentially other vehicles). Day to day, it’s pretty easy and shouldn’t be rolled unless circumstances call for it (such as driving fast through busy streets, or in the rainy dark without headlights). With a high skill, you can pull off stunts you usually only see in the movies. Stunt men, mafia chauffeurs, and cops have a high Driving skill.



Chases
''Driving inevitably leads to car chases—one of the major trappings of this skill. In a chase, your Driving skill is used to close the distance between you and the car you’re chasing (or increase the distance if you’re the one being chased). It’s also used to bring quick resolution to the issues brought up by terrain and other obstacles. Car chases are usually handled using one of the extended contest options. ''

  

One Hand on the Wheel
''Trying to do something in a car? Roll Driving, simple as that. If you are trying to do something fancy, like driving and shooting at the same time, Driving will restrict the skill being used. Note that this trapping generally applies to physical acti ons that you can conceivably do while driving. Since Driving only restricts your other skill, there’s no way you could become better at doing something while you’re also driving a car—your aim won’t suddenly improve because you happen to be driving while you shoot at your target! ''

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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Other Vehicles
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">''<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If your background reasonably suggests experience operating a vehicle other than a car, then Driving may be used to operate those vehicles as well, making this the skill for piloting boats, aircraft, and other motorized vehicles. ''<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Street Knowledge and Navigation
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:24px;">''<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The modern city can be a confusing maze of streets and alley-ways, and being adept at Driving means you know your way around cities you’re familiar with (both behind the wheel and on foot). Under pressure, Driving is the skill for getting from point A to point B as fast as or faster than you need and for figuring out the best course. If you’re not familiar with a place, Driving is treated as Mediocre for the purpose of navigation. ''<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">These Boots Are Made For Walkin’
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:48px;">''<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If your character doesn’t take the Driving skill for some reason, that doesn’t necessarily mean that he don’t know his way around the city—he might just have to get at the information some other way, by using Contacts, Investigation, or Scholarship. All we’re suggesting with the above is that if you drive around a city long enough, you get some knowledge of how to get around it by default, and that knowledge would also apply when you’re not in the car. ''<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

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