For the most part, these devices simply make a pedestrian faster, and as such, they should follow all the normal rules for pedestrians.

Skill Rolls:
Sometimes it is necessary to see how well a skater can stay upright. To do this, a skill roll must be made. The target number is 7, with a +1 per level of skill the user has. There might be additional modifiers as well. This number must then be rolled below on 2d6 for the user to succeed.

Counter Sizes:
None of these items of equipment increases the size of a normal pedestrian counter.

Half Inch Movement:
For devices that have a 5 mph speed (such as the In-line skates with their speed of 25 mph), then simply move the pedestrian 2 1/2 inches when their are moving at full speed. Manoeuvres cannot be made on this half inch of movement.

Acceleration and Deceleration:
All items can get to their top speed in 2 turns. The first turn takes the item to 10 mph, the second turn takes the pedestrian to their top speed.
Slowing down is the same. A pedestrian may slow down up to 15 mph per turn.

Facing and Turning:
When travelling at 10 mph or less, a pedestrian doesn't have a facing and may turn in any direction desired.
However, when travelling faster, a pedestrian does gain a facing and suddenly the types of turns they do becomes a bit more important. At this point, a pedestrian is treated like a mini-vehicle and must be moved with the Turning Key. This is done exactly as normal.

Because a pedestrian doesn't have a handling class, they may attempt manoeuvres at a D class of less than or equal to their skill rating. These will always be successful. For greater manoeuvres, a character must make a skill with a target number modifier of (D of manoeuvre - skill rating of character).

Turning 180^o and moving backwards:
Skaters have the ability to make suddenly turn 180^o and start travelling in reverse as it were. To jump backwards requires a skill roll with a target number modifier of +6. Then travelling backwards is handled as normal, although their is no speed restrictions. All manoeuvres are at a +1 modifier, as normal.

Falling:
When a character fails a skill roll, then it means that they plummet to the floor. This results in the character taking 1d6-5 damage (body armour does protect against this type of damage). In addition, the character will skid along the floor a distance of 1" per phase per 10 mph (or fraction) of speed that they were travelling. At the end of this skid, the character is lying on the floor, stationary.
For example, if a skater was travelling 20 mph and then fell, they would skid 1" for two phases.

Travelling through dropped weapon counters:
Pedestrians aren't usually effected by dropped weapons, but there are always exceptions.

• Spikes/Explosive Spikes: a pedestrian will not set these off.
• Mines: usually a pedestrian will not set off mines. They are usually set for car weights, not pedestrian ones.
• Oil: A pedestrian travelling through oil on any on the equipment listed here has the same hazards as a vehicle. If they make any manoeuvres, then they must make a skill roll with a +2 modifier to the skill target number.
• Flaming Oil: functions as normal oil, and the pedestrian also takes damage.
• Paint and Smoke: this functions as normal. If a pedestrian flies through a paint cloud, then they suffer all the effects of paint. If they are wearing goggles or glasses, then this only until they remove their goggles (requiring a firing action). If they aren't, they could be permanently blinded at the Referee's decision.

Pogo Stick Movement:
Pogo sticks are a little different than normal skates. They bounce. In game terms they make one bounce a phase, The first time they bounce, they bounce up to 1/2' in height, with every additional bounce doubling that, up to a normal pogo sticks height of 2' and the powered sticks height of 7'. A character may control the height that they bounce and thus don't have to bounce the full distance. One game effect of this is that they can bounce over some dropped weapons. Treat the bounce starting at the beginning of a phase and ending at the end of one. Anything in between the starting and finishing counter positions can be considered to have been bounced over and will not effect the character at all.

However they are not fast and the bouncing effects probably won't allow them to vault over dropped weapons, although trip wires are a certain possibility.

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Combat:
Shooting weapons from faster devices, is of course, one of the main reasons for investing in them in the first place. The other is being fast enough to avoid being hit.
A person wearing powered boots, roller-skates, in-line skates or on a skateboard has both hands free. Thus, provided they have at least 1 in their skill (10 skill points), they may use two handed weapons which don't have much recoil (thus no LAWs). If they have less skill, then they may only use 1 handed weapons.

A person using pogo sticks or scooters may only use 1 handed weapons.

There are no additional penalties for using firing while on these items of equipment.

Targeting the Mobility:
Sometimes, you don't want to just shoot the person, but you want the satisfaction of seeing them fall as well. In this case, you want to shoot the wheels that keep the person moving.

Shooting the wheels is at a -6 (which includes the -3 for shooting a pedestrian). A successful hit is usually a bad day for the pedestrian. All mobility equipment has a certain number of DP, just like a vehicular component, although it is not treated as a vehicular component for purposes of being damaged.

Item	DP
Powered Boots	1 (each)
Skates	1 (each)
Skateboards	2
Pogo stick	2

As soon as an item takes the required damaged to destroy it, it no longer works and this will cause the pedestrian to fall.

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New Skills:
There are several new skills required for success use of the new equipment listed here.

• Skating
• Skateboarding
• Pogo

Each level of skill gives the user a +1 to the skill roll number needed to avoid a failure.