skills 'n' that in mgt: connects, packages, etc

[BytePro]

Yeah, some rule mechanics seem a little too roll heavy...

REF: You see a door.
Player A: <roll> I ignore it.
Player B: <roll> I try to open it.
REF: Give me a Mechanics(Doorknob) check...
Player B: Got that - level-3... <roll> darn!
REF: You spend <roll> two minutes pulling on the knob to no avail.
Player B: <roll> I try again. <roll> crap!
REF: You push on the knob for <roll> three minutes to no avail.
Player B: <roll> I give up.
REF: Okay. <roll> Three minutes later <roll> the knob turns, the unlocked door opens <roll> inward, and <roll> a stranger walks through...​

 

[McPerth]

Yeah, some rule mechanics seem a little too roll heavy...

REF: You see a door.
Player A: <roll> I ignore it.
Player B: <roll> I try to open it.
REF: Give me a Mechanics(Doorknob) check...
Player B: Got that - level-3... <roll> darn!
REF: You spend <roll> two minutes pulling on the knob to no avail.
Player B: <roll> I try again. <roll> crap!
REF: You push on the knob for <roll> three minutes to no avail.
Player B: <roll> I give up.
REF: Okay. <roll> Three minutes later <roll> the knob turns, the unlocked door opens <roll> inward, and <roll> a stranger walks through...​

Should I be the referee, this could well be the result of a misshap while trying to open the door, should the task be safe: a somwhat embarrassing situation with no true ill consequences, except for the character pride.:devil:

 

[BytePro]

I sure hope it doesn't take 12 rolls in your games to open an unlocked door!

Though, in character, it can be fun to play with TL assumptions - considering that a given PC may not actually know to turn a door knob... :devil:

 

[McPerth]

No, usually it takes no rolls, but if it takes one and he rolls a misshap, while being a safe action (no security breaking or so), what you told could be a good result.

And yes, TL may be a good mess in either direction. I wouldn't know how to use a high TL computer, but neither a too low one (e.g. one that works with punched cards).

 

[BytePro]

Hehe. I once had some players try all manner of 'techniques' to gain entry (mostly destructive in nature, of course) through a heavy duty, very securely locked, door.

Only to have an NPC just open the door from the inside - having heard the PC's inadvertent 'knocking' ...

 

[77topaz]

Yeah, some rule mechanics seem a little too roll heavy...

REF: You see a door.
Player A: <roll> I ignore it.
Player B: <roll> I try to open it.
REF: Give me a Mechanics(Doorknob) check...
Player B: Got that - level-3... <roll> darn!
REF: You spend <roll> two minutes pulling on the knob to no avail.
Player B: <roll> I try again. <roll> crap!
REF: You push on the knob for <roll> three minutes to no avail.
Player B: <roll> I give up.
REF: Okay. <roll> Three minutes later <roll> the knob turns, the unlocked door opens <roll> inward, and <roll> a stranger walks through...​

The "inward" roll was a bit unneccessary... unless the door might have been locked (because the PCs had been trying to pull it outward and that didn't work, so the door must be inward-opening).

 

[far-trader]

The "inward" roll was a bit unneccessary... unless the door might have been locked (because the PCs had been trying to pull it outward and that didn't work, so the door must be inward-opening).

On the contrary I can see requiring a third roll as the player tried pulling the door sideways to slide it into the wall the way "normal" doors work on ships :devil:

 

[77topaz]

On the contrary I can see requiring a third roll as the player tried pulling the door sideways to slide it into the wall the way "normal" doors work on ships :devil:

Sideways doors generally don't have knobs.

 

[BytePro]

What? No accounting for doors that fold down or up? :devil:

(In one of the Firefly TV series episodes, I seem to recall a character 'attaching' a doorknob to unlock a door -plenty of RP fodder there...).

 

[77topaz]

What? No accounting for doors that fold down or up? :devil:

(In one of the Firefly TV series episodes, I seem to recall a character 'attaching' a doorknob to unlock a door -plenty of RP fodder there...).

Maybe it's a rotating door! :devil: