The Crippler Vehicle in Urban Arcana | World Anvil

The Crippler

Requires Attunement

Portable

Its collapsible design enables you to pack it up or pull it out whilst on the go using your bonus action.

An Extension of the Self

You and your wheelchair are one: consider it a part of your body. It is affected by your character’s spells and potential wild shaping.

Slanted Wheels

These allow for easy passage over Coast, Forest, Grassland, and Mountain terrain. Other types of terrain are considered difficult. The inward slant of the wheels disperses weight evenly, giving you good control. Spokes are protected by wooden covers to prevent debris from getting tangled in them.

How Tough is the Chair? 

The Combat Wheelchair doesn’t have hit points. It can withstand 3 consecutive (in the same encounter) critical hits before it must be repaired using either Tinker’s Tools or Smith’s Tools. You can also pay for someone else to repair it at a cost of $100. Once repaired, the chair is good as new. The attacking creature must announce that they are aiming for the chair before they roll to attack. If the roll is not a critical hit, the attack misses. The chair must take 3x the amount of critical hits it can withstand consecutively (in the same encounter) in order for it and any Upgrades it has to be rendered completely broken and unusable. It can no longer be repaired when completely broken.

Pouches

About the outer frame of the chair are 3 small pouches, near the armrests. One of these is a water skin holder and the other 2 can be used to hold your weapon(s) or carry more gear.

Seat Tilt Lever

When pressed as a reaction, this lever releases a lock mechanism that tilts the seat up, making getting in and out of the chair easier.

Self-Propulsion Variant

The chair is imbued with a low-level pulse of transmutation magic. This appears in the form of a Dwarven rune engraved into the frame. You are now able to use telepathy to command the chair’s movements and it responds accordingly. This telepathy doesn’t require concentration, relying on your quickly passing surface thoughts instead. The chair will only respond to you and no one else.

Seatbelts

These belts are affixed to the chair’s seat and strap about the waist, thighs, shins, and ankles, to hold you in the chair correctly and prevent you from falling out whenever the chair is struck, thrown, or handled roughly in combat. The belts all have clasp buckles which can be done up or released as part of your reaction.

Emergency Brakes

Located on either side of the seat pan, you can use your action to apply these brakes and slow the chair down by 15ft per round. Can be used with a bonus action. This can be done telepathically in the Self-Propulsion Variant.

Ascending and Descending Stairs

By tapping your fingers or hand against the beacon stone twice, the chair is alerted to assist in helping you go up or down stairs. The chair begins to hover 2ft off the ground and you guide it forwards or backwards on the stairs, tapping the stone another two times to ascend, or just once to descend. The chair can only be activated at stairs as it sends out a small wave of magic to detect where the hazard is. It will only hover in this manner until it detects that it has reached the end of the stairs where it will lower back down to the ground. You then continue to guide or push your chair as normal. If you are using the Self-Propulsion Variant, you can telepathically communicate with the beacon stone to activate and use this feature in the same manner.

Power Generation

Beacon Stone. These stones are hand made by artificers for the sole purpose of using them in wheelchairs. They are magically imbued with a very low level pulse of transmutation magic. Specifically, they carry about the same level of power as a cantrip – enough for a little boost and nothing more.
Rarity
Rare, this is a mix of TL2 and magic components
Weight
43#
Speed
35
Cargo & Passenger Capacity
carries 1 person

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Author's Notes

  1. This wheel chair was created using the material provided by Sara Thompson ‘mustangsart’ who has graciously shared this with the world here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IKrFAbRlQrDiEQD_VX8wfp8D5Wc7Ba9g/view?usp=sharing.
  2. Character images generated in Hero Forge


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