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garhkal
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Playing a droid involves a series of trade-offs. The droid character tends to be better than starting PCs in one or two areas, and has some nice built in functions. attachments that other characters can't get, and the ability to "buy up" skills and get additional attachments in the future, but pays for it with some low attributes codes, inept at everything outside of it's field of expertise, requiring a skilled tech for repairs and learning new skills, and status as somebody's property. |
Don't forget, even if they do all those upgrades. unless they get them hardwired, so they are perm, they lose them in a memory wipe... Had that happen to a pc droid in a game i was playing our resident ship joc...
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Esoomian
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I believe anything they've had to spend character points for is counted as hardwired, and of course physical upgrades cant be 'forgotten' although I suppose the software to run them could. That would be a pain.
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garhkal
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I see nothing in Cyndabars that says their improvements are considered traitware (hardwired), but many areas it mentions skills (software)...
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ccatkins
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| Chesh, would you mind posting that link again as its expired? |
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cheshire
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It's on my 4shared now.
http://www.4shared.com/document/JCoAqGja/Droid_Damage.html
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GMgreatness
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Nevermind!! Thanks!
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ccatkins
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Cheers matey  |
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Praxian
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I had read (I think in Cynabars) that if a droid -didn't- have software that upgraded his skills to at least +1D that he could not spend character points on upgrading them.
I'll have to look around when I get home and see if I can find that again, but would be something to keep in mind. I know I've made a droid NPC for the characters in my home game that is "Spying" on them. It's a variation of the Protocol droid, has the languages thing going for it, etc.
One of my players wanted to play it, and I said sure, giving the "modified" stats for it to the player (because part of the droids programming only takes place @ certain times - it doesn't actually record what it does at that time). So it in essence, blacks out.
Anyways, long story short, he wanted to spend points on skills and I told him no, and pointed out in Cynabars why he couldn't and he was annoyed, and went and made an actual "real person" character.
Definately reccomend getting Cynabars if the player playing a droid is going to be a long-term thing. |
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bobenhotep
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im not much for " you cant do that". in SW, you can do almost anything, but it will cost you. I'd allow droids to learn new skills, but at higher cost.
i handled droid damage same as characters, except they have "ionized" boxes instead of stun. droids self-deionize at the same rate that bios lose stun. anything that is wounded or greater requires repairs. now droids can have pieces blown off and continue to function...
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