Time for repair

[Purzelkater]

I'm not sure how to handle the time for repairing (droids, ship system, ...). On the rules, time for repair is stated with 15 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 2 days. And their are difficulty levels.

So what does this mean?

If the Jawa want's to repair a droid, I have to determine a difficulty number. Then the Jawa rolls his repair skill dice. If he has success at the first roll, it takes 15 min to repair the droid? If he fails, he have to roll again. If he has success on the 2nd roll, it takes 1 hour to repair the droid. If he fails again, the next roll will take 1 hour to repair it?

Note: Until now for this I have determined a target number like 60 and an in-game time span every roll takes, e.g. 1 hour. Then the Jawa had to roll his skill dice and collect his numbers until he beats the target number - say he has needed 4 rolls to get 60+. So the Jawas has needed 4 hours to repair the droid.

Thank you!
Purzelkater

[MrNexx]

A lightly damaged droid requires 15 minutes to repair with an Easy checl.
heavily damaged droids require one hour to repair with a Difficult check.
Severely damaged droids require two hours to repair with a Very Difficult check.
Nearly Obliterated Droids require two hours and a heroic check, since there doesn't seem to be any gradation above that.

I think your "adding until you get the total value" is a good method, though I would say use the above as your guide. If you're not a very good droid mechanic, you might not want to try a Very Difficult check. Instead, you try several Easy checks.... but each is going to cost 15% of the droid's cost, and you're going to need around 5 of them to total as much difficulty as a single very difficult check. I'd base the time for each check on the level of damage, though, so those Easy checks you're making will be 2 hours each. Instead of 1 Very Difficult Check that costs 35% of the droid's cost and two hours, you're looking at 5 Easy checks that cost 75% of the Droid's cost and 10 hours.
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[garhkal]

I've always seen it like Purzelkater does. If you fail, your next attempt shifts the time up one category.
So if it takes you 3 rolls (two failures and a success) to get the job done, then its 1 day, 1 hr 15 min to get the job complete.
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[Straxus]

Sorry for kinda hijacking the thread, OP, but it's sort of relevant..

I've been looking for a "hasty repair" rule, but haven't been able to find any. I want my tech-PC to be able to patch things up during starship combat, but using rounds, not minutes, so repair rolls can be a part of a dramatic chase. I'm thinking 1 round for light damage, and the repair will only hold for a little while. Kinda the equivalent to using your hand to stop a bleeding until you have chance to put on a bandage.

Does anything like this already exist? If not, I'll start a thread in the House Rules section with my suggestion.

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

[MrNexx]

[Kytross]

In cannon, R2-D2 is making repairs to Luke's X-Wing on the fly in the Death Star Trench run in ANH.

[Ning Leihrec]

Here's how I run jury-rigging for in-combat quick repairs:

- jury rigged repairs do not give bonuses, they only restore lost performance due to damage. Shields, maneuverability, etc.
- difficulty and time of jury rig repair depends upon the condition of the vessel:
shields blown: moderate / 2 rounds
lightly damaged: difficult / 3 rounds
heavily damaged: very difficult / 4 rounds
severely damaged: heroic / 5 rounds
- jury rigged repairs do not alter the condition of the vessel to improve the difficulty for further jury rigged repairs.
- no more than 1D of lost performance may be restored at a time.
- no more than 3D may be restored total.
- if a 1 is rolled on a restored die that restored die is automatically lost in addition to the results of the standard mishap roll.
- if a 1 is rolled on the mishap table not only does the vessel shut down but it also suffers damage equal to the most recent hit received... i.e. lightly dmg, heavily dmg, etc.

[Straxus]

[Bren]

I think some kind of jury-rigging makes a lot of sense both from what we see in the films but also from the perspective of giving non-combat, non-pilot PCs something to do during ship-to-ship action.

[jmanski]

I see quick on-the-fly repairs like first aid, its a patch-up that will get you through the next few minutes because it doesn't last very long and the real work happens later.
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[Giant Tourtiere]

FWIW that's exactly what I do with on the fly repairs: you can take one shot at a hasty patch job. If you succeed, it's duct-taped together and will operate for the rest of combat (unless the system is damaged again) but isn't actually *fixed*; permanent repair will require parts and standard time.

The jury-rigged repairs also give me something to do with 1s on the Wild Die - 'It's come loose again!'

I usually only allow one roll for this, and if you fail then basically your character can't see a way to patch it. Another character may be able to see a solution.
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[Straxus]

[tcschenks]

I would use the rules for quick-prepping a ship from Classic Adventures 4: The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal (page 15) or Star Wars Adventure Journal #1 (page 261)...only assuming the damage result was a light damage 15 minute job, and only useable once per particular hit, using Repair instead of Piloting.