Conversion - Scavenger's Guide to Droids

[cheshire]

I did some tweaking with this. I'd like comments.

[cheshire]

[cheshire]

Another one that I tweaked with. Some feedback would really be nice on these things.

[Tem_Starrunner]

Is it just me or is the Personality Downloader just seems a bit to easy to use (munchiny). Shouldn't it be a bit more difficult then just rolling a characters programming/repair skill vs. droids perception. I do understand hardest part of the Downloader can be actually getting it on the droid but most droids only have perception of 1D-2D vs. a character who normally would have double or more than that in their programming/repair.

As alternative would a base difficulty plus the droid's perception be better to roll against. My thought is it takes a base programming/repair roll to access the droid programming if a PC were to hack the droid. So it would make sense for the Downloader to be a bit more difficutly to use.

The other alternative would allow the droid to make multiple attempts to resist. Not to many maybe one per minute.

Just my thoughts.

[cheshire]

The original text stated that once every ten minutes the droid and the attacker re-roll. I thought it seemed a bit odd, though that might be a way to do it. However, even with a perception of 1D-2D, it still isn't much of a contest. How about it is Easy, PLUS the droid's perception, AND the droid may re-roll every 10 minutes against the original attack number? It just never made sense to me that the attacker also re-rolls every ten minutes.

Do you think that adding these two components together makes it balanced, or does it skew it too much in the droid's favor. I think it may be wise taking the enormous cost of the device into consideration.
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

[cheshire]

Okay, this is just a bit of a vent or a rant on my part. I've converted some pretty strange equipment and weapons since doing my share of the conversion books, but Scavenger's Guide to Droids really takes the cake! A tape dispenser for crying out loud... I'm converting a friggin' TAPE DISPENSER!!!!

*sigh* Sorry, this book is really hard to make good progress with because I am having the hardest time getting into any of the ideas behind the stats that I'm generating.

Rant over, putting the book down for the night, and I'll pick it up tomorrow. I'm going to go practice my rapier drills now.
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

[Tem_Starrunner]

Cheshire, I had a chance to look at Scavenger's Guide. The Personality Downloader is definetly a hard piece of gear to convert. The description has a lot to be desired for.

I think the best way to deal with it after looking the book over is this. Use a programming/repair vs droids perception to start the Downloader. Then every 10 minutes the droid has the chance to fight the Downloader against either a preset die total or easy/moderate difficulty. The availability might also may need to be tweaked from 3 to 4 because it a custom built device.

The simplest built Downloaders would have a preset difficulty while more advanced designs could have a Die code and the most advanced would have a droid brain to do all the work for a PC against the droids Perception. Just threw that bit in for anyone that might want to design their own.

[cheshire]

Thanks, I really really appreciate your input, and I've made changes accordingly.

Here's another one that I changed a bit. They have an astromech translation unit that costs 250 (plus software), and I upped the cost of this thing from 20 to 150 just to make it fit more in line of what's already established.

[cheshire]

[cheshire]

The lameness kills me. So I added a bit of a Star Wars duct tape joke. The thing about the attacks is straight out of the book. I didn't make that up.

[Forceally]

[cheshire]

The only joke in there is "the tape has a light side and a dark side." Granted, the language in the actual book doesn't say "surround" and "bind" but I decided to use those words to bring it closer to Obi-Wan's speech in E IV
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

[cheshire]

I thought I would post the Remote Receiver Jammer in comparison to something that we converted for Galaxy at War. I thought it would be best for things to remain as consistent as possible while still accounting for flavor text and described game mechanics. I'm willing to take suggestions as to how to tweak. Should I make it more consistent with what was written earlier, or just try to stay true to the text that was presented?

[jmanski]

I vote keep it as is. They seem similar yet different enough to warrant the differences.
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Blasted rules. Why can't they just be perfect?

[Forceally]

Yeah. From what I read, the remote receiver jammer is essentially a comm jammer specifically attuned to disrupting only droid signals.