Movement House Rules

[Dr. Bidlo]

This thread is a spin off of a discussion of the Movement rules from the 2E R&E RAW and how, while easy an convenient, they result a bit of a jarring staccato of motion by forcing all mo events into the span of a single action.this means an average human could travel up to 40 meters in the blink of an eye during a single action within a 5 second round. I have been working on some of my own house rules, but wanted to open discussions to see if anyone else has been working on any house rules for Movement. I will share what I have after some initial discussion.

[CRMcNeill]

I have some thoughts here, but I don't consider them fully formed enough to be worth posting. This post is mainly to help- me find this topic again in the future should that change.
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The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[Whill]

[Dr. Bidlo]

Here is my first attempt to fully write out my house rules for Movement. I used the language from the RAW to the greatest degree possible (inconsistent as it is at times) and added or slightly amended where needed to explain my house rules. This version applies specifically to characters and after I get the text for these rules refined and finalized, I will do the same for vehicle movement.

Realistic Movement and Movement During Actions

Cautious Movement: This is a slow walk for a character: she moves at half her Move either at the same time as any non-movement action or as a movement action (a human with a Move of 10 would move five meters).

In Very Easy, Easy, and Moderate terrains, cautious movement is a "free action": it's not considered an action and the character doesn't have to roll her running skill.

In Difficult, Very Difficult, and Heroic terrains, roll the character's running skill, but reduce the difficulty one level (Very Difficult terrain is Difficult to cross; Moderate terrain is Easy to cross.)


Cruising Movement: Cruising movement is walking speed for a character (a human with a Move of 10 would move up to 10 meters).

The character may move at her Move speed at the same time as any non-movement action or as a movement action.

Moving at cruising speed counts as an0 action, but the character can automatically make the move for Very Easy, Easy, and Moderate terrains. A character must roll her running skill for Difficult, Very Difficult, and Heroic terrains.


High Speed: High speed movement is running for a character - she moves twice her Move speed (a human with a Move of 10 would move up to 20 meters).

The character may start a high speed movement at the same time as any non-movement action as long as she has a least two actions remaining or as a movement action. The character must move her full Move speed (a human with a Move of 10 would move up to 10 meters) during the action in which she starts moving.

During the character's next action, she must move again any distance up to her Move speed (a human with a Move of 10 would move up to 10 meters) and may take an action at the same time if she has any remaining actions.

High speed movement uses one action even though it is taken over the course of two actions and at the same time as one or more non-movement actions.

The character must roll her running skill for Very Easy, Easy, or Moderate terrain. When moving at high speed, Difficult, Very Difficult, and Heroic terrains, increase the difficulty by one level: Difficult terrain becomes Very Difficult to cross, Very Difficult terrain becomes Heroic to cross.

All-Out: All-out movement is running at an all-out speed for a character - she moves at four times her Move speed (a human with a Move of 10 would move up to 40 meters).

The character must move her Move speed during first and second actions (a human with a Move of 10 would move 10 meters during each action).

The character must move any distance up to her Move speed during third and fourth actions (a human with a Move of 10 would move up to 10 meters).

All-out movement uses one action even though it is taken over the course of several actions.

Characters making "all-out" movement may not do anything else in the round, including dodge or parry!

Increase the difficulty one level for Very Easy, Easy, and Moderate terrains. Increase the difficulty two levels for Difficult, Very Difficult, or Heroic terrains.

[garhkal]

Seems nice.. Are you going to edit the "characters can only speed up or slow down, to 'speed' levels?
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[Dr. Bidlo]

[garhkal]

So looking at it..
Example A: Players John, Jerry and Karl.

Enemiies are a six pack of storm troopers, range 45 yards.
Jerry declares 3 actions (move cruise, shoot twice).
Karl declares 3 actions (move double speed, shoot twice)
John declares an all out move.

Rebels win.
Action 1; ALL three pcs, move 10ft, John is only one needing to roll since the terrain is moderate. BOTH KARL and Jerry can also Shoot, WHILE moving?
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[Dr. Bidlo]

[garhkal]

Copy that.
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[Whill]

[Dr. Bidlo]

[Whill]

Here's the thing about the round. It is not exactly five seconds. It is up to five seconds. If all the actions taken in a round shouldn't take five seconds, then for dramatic reasons the round should end and move on to the next round. I've still maintained the premise that moving the full distance for each speed requires the whole round for simplicity's sake, despite the fact that rounds are variable lengths of time. I think of the highest number of actions declared in a round determining the 'time segments' of that round, so the fraction of time each turn of actions takes is variable.

But for any GMs that have movement rules like ours and are set on limiting the number of actions in a round, I would say four actions based on All-Out being four moves in Blue Vader. However I personally am fine with the variability.

In my SWU, a "round" is an in-universe colloquialism for 1-5 seconds. So like a "moment".
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[garhkal]

I've never understood the whole "Five sec" thing for rounds, especially with someone supposedly dashing 40 yards.. That's almost olympic level sprinting...
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