{"id":452,"date":"2023-05-30T05:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:21","slug":"vehicle-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Commander (Twilight: 2000 4th Edition House Rule)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Something that’s always bugged me about Twilight: 2000’s vehicle combat is the relative lack of anything meaningful for the person in the vehicle commander’s seat to do. Sure, many of them have their own pintle-mounted MGs, but there’s no command<\/em> function. This recently came up in a Kaserne on the Borderlands<\/a> session and my table had a brief discussion about it. Here’s what we came up with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vehicle Command:<\/strong> As a slow action, the vehicle commander may coordinate the actions of his vehicle's crew.  Make a Command check.  With success, this counts as help (Player's Guide, p. 46) for each other crew member's actions this turn.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Timing wasn’t an issue because of our house rules on initiative<\/a>.  The table agreed that the commander should act first to determine success or failure on granting the bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the interest of balance, we restricted the benefit to actual crew positions, not passengers.  There was some debate about whether human cargo using firing ports should benefit, but I felt that was excessive.  If you want an in-game rationale, assume that only the actual crew seats have jacks for the vehicle’s intercom.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This seemed to work well as implemented.  The commander’s player felt his XP investment in Command was being rewarded, and the gunner appreciated the extra +1 to offset penalties.  The driver was a NPC, so he didn’t have opinions, but the bonus was there when needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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