Submission: Getaway Car

Name: Getaway Car
Cardtype: action modifier
Cost: none
Capacity: none
Discipline: none
Clan: none
Requires a minion with a vehicle.
Minions without vehicles or celerity cannot block this action.

Flavor text: Sure, it only goes like 50 mph. Can you run that fast?

Art notes: Bunch of angry people with weapons trying to catch an icecream truck speeding away.

World of Darkness reference: uh, none.

How does this card address a compelling game need?: Just giving an extra reason to play with vehicles.

Created by: Mikko Moisander

seems a little much to me... maybe this instead: "Minions without must burn one blood to attempt to block this action."

But i do like where your head's at.

Yea, "cannot block" is rough, you can give Beatrice Trembley and the sun pharoah hawgs and have them hack/strike with conviction for large unblockable bleeds.

To be unblockable, Id say it needs to tap a minion with a vehicle and be a non bleed. Also, wouldnt a getaway only help once youve done something? Like, you get caught trying to burn a powerbase, having an exit strategy doesnt help much, and leads to the premise where this card is either like Zephyr or As the Crow.(which woupd work, but maybe cost a pool or make the vehicle burn or something where the minion takes damage or is only untapped to block, etc)

Cool art notes though...

Whisker wrote:

Name: Getaway Car
Cardtype: action modifier
Cost: none
Capacity: none
Discipline: none
Clan: none
Requires a minion with a vehicle.
Minions without vehicles or celerity cannot block this action.

As well as the power problems other people note (which is not a trivial problem), thematically it seems wrong. A getaway car is about getting away afterwards, whether you succeeded in your bank heist or not, not actually getting the thing done in the first place. The security guard can still shoot you, the vampire with Auspex still knows what you're going to do and can be in the right place at the right time, and so on.

I like the idea of helping vehicles.

How about:
Burn a vehicle on this minion to give minions without celerity -1 intercept against this action.

The idea being you drive around the slow people.

kpram wrote:

How about:
Burn a vehicle on this minion to give minions without celerity -1 intercept against this action.

As most vehicles will be equipped with actual actions, this is very expensive. If you change it to "Tap a vehicle on this minion to...", it would be less aggravating. However, Suppressing Fire is functionally pretty similar and doesn't see much top tier play - according to a quick search on SL, it's in something like 2 TWDA entries ever, one weenie deck, one Palla Grande breed deck. I wouldn't expect this to do much to enliven decks.