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<blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 6863154" data-attributes="member: 31506"><p>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. </p><p></p><p>Perhaps when Edge premiered they had a niche as a specialist, but it seems the more races published, the more this erodes. Obviously if you want to play a DROID, droids are the best. 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. Similarly we're seeing more and more races with a pair of 3's in stats. Overall, this seems stronger from a rules perspective than an extra starting rank in your 7/8th skill pick. </p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>Before anyone gets all huffy and trots out the "roleplay, not roll play" chestnut, this is just about mechanics. 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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefe Bergenstein, post: 6863154, member: 31506"] 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. Perhaps when Edge premiered they had a niche as a specialist, but it seems the more races published, the more this erodes. Obviously if you want to play a DROID, droids are the best. 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. Similarly we're seeing more and more races with a pair of 3's in stats. Overall, this seems stronger from a rules perspective than an extra starting rank in your 7/8th skill pick. 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? Before anyone gets all huffy and trots out the "roleplay, not roll play" chestnut, this is just about mechanics. 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. [/QUOTE]
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