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From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: Defaulting (was Summer Time)
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:19:23 -0600
Brian Moore wrote:
/
/ 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.

<sound of David banging his head against a wall> #@$$%!!!

Well. I'm feel rather sheeeepish. And a very stupid. <sigh> Oh
well, only been doing it wrong since SRII was published. Gaa.

-David
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