FATE Da Cool Shit! Skill: Ride

Overcome: Ride is the equivalent of Athletics when you’re on a mount or comparable vehicle - you use it to successfully accomplish movement in the face of difficult circumstances, like rough terrain, small amounts of clearance, or stunt riding. Obviously, Ride is also ripe for contests, especially chases, races and stunts.

Create an Advantage: You can use Ride to determine the best way to get somewhere on a mount or comparable vehicle, and a good enough roll might allow you to learn features of the route that get expressed as aspects, or declare that you know a CONVENIENT SHORTCUT or something similar. Advantages created using Ride often revolve around getting good positioning, doing a fancy maneuver (Did a Barrel Roll, anyone?), or putting your opponent in a bad spot.

Attack: Ride isn’t usually used as an attack skill (though stunts can certainly alter this). If you want to ram with your mount or comparable vehicle, you can attack with Ride, but you typically take the same shifts of harm you inflict.

Defend: Avoiding damage to your mount or comparable vehicle in a physical conflict is one of the most common uses of Ride. You can also use it to defend against advantages being created against you or overcome actions of someone trying to move past your mount or comparable vehicle.

Example Stunts:

• Hard to Shake. +2 to Ride whenever you’re pursuing another mount or comparable vehicle in a chase scene.
• Pedal to the Metal. You can coax more speed out of your mount or comparable vehicle than seems possible. During speed-focused contests or challenges, any tie made with your Ride roll is actually treated as a success.
• Turn on a Dime!. When in mounted or vehicular conflict, all else being equal, you can make tighter turns and dodge quicker. You can attack and defend with Ride at +2 in any environment that narratively contains terrain hazards.