#EDGE OF THE EMPIRE DROID TYPES PLUS#

Note that they get 6 ranks in their career skills, and then a separate 3 ranks in their specialty's skills, and THOSE are allowed to overlap.

Not a house rule at all - but it highlights that you don't understand the process. I'm still trying to figure out a minor boost, leaning towards just giving ranks and letting them train their bonus career skills to 3 at creation.

We were talking about how most people arent willing to chop off their leg for a +1 Agility, but its a non-issue for a droid. The cybernetics thing is also nice from a RP perspective. Is there something different in the special modifications book? We havent delved too much into that as we just got it. Their vibrobrain or whatever is too damaged to be recovered. Coupled with air its an iffy 10 points given you can get suits/rebreathers or whatever, but toxins might bring it up to par, particularly if the party uses it to their advantage (pump gas into a room or something).ДЄlso, unless it's specifically stated, droids 'die' the same as meatbags, on a roll of 141+ on the crit table. I'm sure there's probably one in a splat somewhere thoughДЇood and water wont be an issue in many games. If the stars align, they can get 2/2/2/1/1/1 in their career skills, but few specs have 3 overlaps from career. A non droid in that situation would have 2/2/1/1. So typically 2/2/1/1/1/1/1 in a spec that offers 2 same skills (pretty rare actually). Then when they pick a spec, they get one rank in 3 skills. I'm confused, is that a house rule? My understanding from the creation rules is they get one rank in 6 skills, not 6 skill ranks. I'm wondering if it would balance to instead let them get 3 extra ranks of skills, raising to 3 at creation similar to how corelians can raise piloting to 3.

#EDGE OF THE EMPIRE DROID TYPES PLUS#

We're seeing more races with a 3 in 2 stats (Toydarian, Weequay, Hutts, Chadra Fan, Selonian, Nemoidains plus whatever is in the F&D books) which the droid needs to spend 100 exp just to match.ДЄ droid basically gets 3 extra 1st ranks of skills they potentially already passed over, so essentially its just 15 exp. So right now, if you want to play a smart droid, you're shooting yourself in the foot. As more races with different stat combinations are released, the customization advantage of droids wanes even further. A drall with 4/3/2/2/1/1 has 60 *and* an extra starting 2. That smart 4/3/2/1/1/1 droid has 15 exp left. Given the starting skill limit of 2, there's next to no reason not to dump nearly all your points into stats. They are the hardest things to upgrade, and if you have multiple core concept skills in the same stat, you're certainly better off raising them at creation, since it gives you extra dice to everything.

indicates started 3, () indicates started at 1 up to 15 that 175 can be 190.Д¬ompare to a human's 110 with base 2's and ob-raised max of 125 People can have run RP'ing a character of any species, I don't see why someone should pay a premium to do it as a droid.ДЄdd to that that droids can add built-in equipment later on, especially armor. Would it unbalance things to give droids at least a 2 in a stat of their choice? Anyone else tinker (heh) with giving droids a boost?Д«efore anyone gets all huffy and trots out the 'roleplay, not roll play' chestnut, this is just about mechanics. Overall, this seems stronger from a rules perspective than an extra starting rank in your 7/8th skill pick.

Similarly we're seeing more and more races with a pair of 3's in stats. But if you just want to play a smart guy, it's really hard to ignore something like the drall with its 4 Intellect and overall better stats. Obviously if you want to play a DROID, droids are the best. Perhaps when Edge premiered they had a niche as a specialist, but it seems the more races published, the more this erodes. I'm preparing to run my first Edge of the Empire game, and one of the players was interested in playing a droid, but felt they were a little underpar mechanically speaking (no pun intended), given their starting stats of straight 1's and not enough starting exp to really compensate.

Edge of the empire droid types