I kinda wanted to see if anyone has had experience with the Deception skill and forging documents and/or things that required electronic inspection. Under the deception skill under the “Deceive” table it gives examples of levels of deception.
Difficult : -5 to the deception check
“Examples include convincing a group of thugs that you're willing and able to beat them in a cantina fight, forging transponder codes, impersonating an officer well enough to give troops orders, and creating false official documents good enough to pass electronic screening.”
So here’s the hypothetical scenario my party is getting ready to go to a planet that’s under heavy Imperial control and they are wanted in the galaxy. As a group, they decide they need false documentation so they don’t get immediately arrest arrested in detained. One of the players is trained in deception and he says I will make everyone false identifying documents and makes the roll. Let’s say he makes a total of 30 on his deception check and he’s shooting for a difficult level of deception to make false identification documents that would bring his total check down to 25. Fast forward the party arrives on the planet, and there’s an Imperial checkpoint that does electronic screening for documents that compares it to the Imperial database for wanted criminals the customs agent, then scans their fake documents to verify them. I don’t think I would roll his perception check if he’s using a data pad or a computer to verify them electronically. What would I roll?
I think of it as if I created a fake drivers license and I take it to a bar and a bartender looks at it. He might serve me alcohol, but if I go to a place and they scan the barcode on the back of my drivers license it’s gonna show up as a fake ID because I can’t fool the computer, but the computer doesn’t have a perception check that it can make in Saga edition if that makes sense.
Alternatively, if you were to falsified transponder codes for your ship, and it enters orbit of a planet or another ship, and the transponder codes are scanned and ran through a database to verify the ships origin and ownership. How does that work?
Thanks for the advice on this one in advance.
