More vehicles. More. More!

[Vamptastic]

So, there's a couple of cool modes of transportation in Golarion, but I'm thinking there could be more. How would you guys build the following? What advantages would they give? Any disadvantages? Skills required to use them? What's going on? You catch that Lakers game? What's wrong?

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Bicycles

Skateboards

Actual combustion engine vehicles, like cars and motorcycles

Jetpacks

Pogo sticks

Stilts

Hamster Wheels, for Smaller characters.

Hang Gliders

Snowboards

Mount-like Constructs that you pilot

Trains/Monorails/Subways/Rail-related Vehicles

Etc?

[Vamptastic]

Oh! And rollerblades.

[Lincoln Hills]

I was about to say something scornful, but since I once built a series of adventures around a massive submarine-like vehicle from a lost age, I realized that I can't get on my high horse if you want a pogo-sticking paladin.

Also, you forgot ornithopters. And swamp hovercraft. And Big Wheels.

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Permanent gust of wind in an box. Excellent motor/power source for all kinds of fantastic machines.

Or take two rocks. Enchant one to stay extremely hot. Enchant the other to create water. Put them both in an adamantine cylinder with only one opening. Poof. Fantasy steam engine that'll never run our of energy.

[Protoman]

For bikes, skateboards, and other non-powered vehicles, maybe check out D20 Modern SRD vehicles. I think they have rules using 3.5 Balance skill (or PF it would be Acrobatics).

[Gavmania]

Orcs on skis make for an interesting encounter.

How about a steampunk campaign with flying ships powered by steam elementals?

[Vamptastic]

If I'm gonna go steampunk, I'm gonna keep all that magic business out of the technology.

Mind you, people could then -mix- magic and technology, but I'd want it to initially be independent of magic and not require it to function.

[Silent Saturn]

Someone else around here was trying to stat up a bicycle. I thought it could be a pretty cool idea, but in the long run it's just not viable incombat, only for covering short to medium distances quickly.

[Xzaral]

Wasn't there a 1st or 2nd edition adventure for high level characters that featured a giant robot the PCs had to climb? (earthshaker I think it was called?). That's a vehicle, right?

[Vamptastic]

@SilentSaturn: I don't see why it wouldn't be viable in combat. Is it because of the difficulty involved in riding it? I figure you'd have to train at it much like someone would have to train themselves at riding a horse.

Also, Xzaral, that sounds pretty cool. And yeah, I totally count that as a vehicle.