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On Tue, 2/23/16, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Trawling for 'ice'?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 12:41 PM

 On 2/23/2016 11:29 AM, tmr0195@comcast.net
 wrote:

 > With my luck
 the ship's fuel purification system will not work or
 the
 > contaminates will do something
 nasty to the ship.

 Perhaps, but IMO that's a card that should
 be played sparingly - I mean,
 that's
 what the system is FOR.  If it's not reliable, then you
 get the
 players rolling their eyes
 ("oh look, the transporter/holodeck/ whatever
 is broken again because lazy writing I mean
 REASONS") and the characters
 wondering
 why they spent the credits and volume on something that
 never
 works.

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My experience has always been that skimming/refueling/refining is, just like a simple basic jump, pretty much a 2-12 on 2d6 for success.
The only time a failure happens is for the same reason a jump failure happens & we all know how that comes to be...

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