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The Deadline for the 2018 One Page Dungeon Contest is May 1st, by midnight UMT

Visit dungeoncontest.com for more details, and grab a free copy of the submission guide HERE.

The One Page Dungeon Contest Ate My Life!

So I had hoped to put out the vehicle rules for The Wasted Hack by now, but I have been incredibly busy with managing the 2018 One Page Dungeon Contest that I haven't had a chance to work on anything else (with one exception as noted below). 

We have a lot of sponsors this year, and a treasure trove of prizes, so if you have not submitted an entry, this is the year to do it! 

You can grab a free copy of the submission guide HERE, and check out my www.dungeoncontest.com website for more information regarding the contest.

The deadline is May 1st, by midnight UMT. There is a handy countdown clock on the website to let you know just how much or little time is left to get a entry sent in.

The contest judging and the awarding of prizes should wrap up around mid-May, and then I will be able to devote my time to wrapping up Bubb's Diner, and the vehicle rules.  In the meantime, I have about five hundred new ideas that I simply can't spare the time to explore, but I am looking forward to diving into all of this soon.

I was able to put together the print edition of "The Unearthed Hack" before the contest went full blown, and it has been sitting in "your entry has been sent" limbo for what feels like forever. However, it did finally get approved, and I will be sending off for a print proof copy.

-Aaron

Armor Plating Rules for "Ten Liter"

The page featured in the image covers Armor Plating and Armor Dice, which need to be degraded by heavy damage before a vehicle starts to take damage to its Hit Points.

Armor Plating also negatively affects a character's attempts to control a vehicle (by making drive (DRV) tests, which is a new derived stat.

I originally had two separate categories, Speed and Handling, and each were tracked independently as bonuses or penalties to a characters DEX test to drive, but tracking and calculating all of that was a pain in the butt, so I abstracted everything down to a simple DRV modifier.  A vehicle will have a total DRV modifier based on its stock value and any modifications that have been made, and this total value can be negative (a bonus to DRV test) or postive (a penalty to DRV tests). 

Driving the armored compact car featured on the page would not be pleasant, with +2 penalties on every DRV test (used to escape pursuit, catch another vehicle, avoid damage, inflict damage with ramming and hard mounted weapons, etc.)

Wasted Hack Vehicle Rules: New Cover Image Process

Pulling sketch in from Clip Studio to Illustrator and

re-drawing it with the pen tool/ adding pistons and rods.

Pulling into Photoshop, outlining and filling blacks with 

white in prep for cover.

Adding the new image to the existing cover file/ tweaking the size

and arrangement of text.