In tonight's session, the heroes were trapped within an automated mining facility that had been taken over by a crazed central control droid. After a harrowing climb down a turbolift shaft, the PCs reached the command centre. They came to a large blast door and instead of attempting to "hack the door controls", the mechanic thought it best to hot-wire the doors. They managed to unlock the door, but threat meant the doors still needed to be pried open. As a result, the droid in the party (with the highest brawn) attempted to open the door. During the session I could see things were a little too easy for them, and I decided to up the ante and have the door be electrified. Now that was great and all, but no sooner had the words passed my lips did I realise that I had no idea how this would be applied using the rules. Was it like fire, noxious atmosphere or other damaging terrain where I would apply the damage? Or was this an actual attack?

I decided that the droid controlling the facility would make an attack - using the door - with a base damage of 6, and using its Computers skill as the attack dice pool. The difficulty I made Easy (single purple die) as the droid was engaged with the door. I also made the damage stun.

The players seemed happy with this and the attack had the desired effect as it knocked out the droid.

Does this seem a reasonable way of dealing with this kind of a situation or have I missed something in the rules.

Cheers!

The players seemed happy with this and the attack had the desired effect as it knocked out the droid.

Seems like a good call then.

Stun is a good effect to simulate electric damage.

I'd just give the door a stun 3 rating—touching the door inflicts 3 strain, bypassing soak. If you want it to be stun damage, then bump it up to 5—the equivalent of a light blaster shot—and apply soak as normal.

Either way, no attack roll needed, just touching the door inflicts the damage.

That being said, the way you did it works great, too!

-EF