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So I've discovered that there's nothing more boring and flow-breaking than watching the group negotiator make a half-dozen rolls to pick up a piece of gear. And then do it again to pick up another piece of gear. And then do it again, and so on. Dice rolling can be fun sometimes, but high-threshold extended tests are dull.

Also I have trouble integrating team actions due to all the rolling -- it's easier to get one thing done at a time and then move on to the next person. And god forbid anyone other than the team Face tries to buy a hand grenade.

I find myself gravitating back toward the SR3 mechanic, where you worked your contacts to find a seller (one roll) and the success of that roll determined how long it would take before the sale. Then partway through you met the seller to finalize the price (one roll). Instead of having one character spend a solid, steady week tracking down a box of ammo, one character could arrange a bunch of buys and then the team would have to go and have all that cloak-and-dagger back-alley arms dealing fun.

Does anyone have a better way to do this?