From:	Brian Moore <mooreb@****.FAC.COM>
Subject:	Re: Defaulting (was Summer Time)
Date:	Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:39 -0400

David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> said:
> ...
> Who's had this happen? You're GMing and the PCs want to do something
> that nobody has the skill for. And it's a high TN. Someone defaults
> and pumps in as much dice pool as they can, spends Karma to re-roll,
> and ends up with a gazzilion successes. Bleurg :(

IIRC, you can't use dice pools unless you have the right skill. The
reasoning is probably related to the standard rule about only being
able to use as many pool dice as you have skill. If your real skill
is 0, you can use 0 dice from an appropriate pool. The same thing
may apply to Karma dice, since you can also only add as many karma
dice as you have skill.

I think the standard rules also mention that defaulting doesn't give
you the same results as using the actual skill. For example, someone
could theoretically install cyberware by defaulting from INT. Most
GMs would laugh if their players ever tried this. Adjust the results
as you see fit.

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