jumping

[kevsurp]

ok this came up at my last game session

how do you handle jumping without great leap?

my players were trying to jump over a trap section of floor and none of them have great leap and the skill doesn't allow default use.

[arma]

Ah, been meaning to get back to this.
You can just use great leap from the principle of it, but the problem for defaulting is that defaulting normally applies a result level modifier, and that can't really applied to rolls without difficulty numbers. So the question is what to use.
Maybe apply initiative penalties when defaulting only, or Harried, or a flat modifier.

[galafrone]

i define the distance in meters [(high + long) then add
+0 if the player has a decided for a RUN move (he doesnt do that, he just jump with some start)
or
+ 1 if he has chosen a simple move (same as above, the move is in effect the jump)
or
+ 2 if he has to jump with no start (like he is surprised by a trap or something like that)
as the difficulty number
that difficulty number is the object of a DEX roll (with modifiers for initiative penalty)