Just an underbar for the variant? That would work for me, I think.
I was thinking underbar, yes.
The relevant part of the original version of this module is:
When a player enters the courtyard, the closest droid approaches him and says:
“I am empowered to sleep and then give damage to you unless you leave now! I would not even give this warning, but my master has so agreed to protect youths like yourself. Your reply must be immediate, or I will attack with all my powers.”
GM ONLY: The droids throw a Sleep spell 2nd round, after giving their message 1st round. The 3rd round they throw hits.
So the original version has
sleep as the spell. We could make it a SLA I suppose, but that doesn't seem right.
How's this:
Variant Guardian Droid - Protector Droid
Many variant models of guardian droids are possible. The most common is the protector droid. This droid appears identical to a standard guardian droid, but in addition to the lethal option of its laser it has a sleep projector that allows it to harmlessly sedate living creatures.
Sleep Projector (Ex): A protector droid has a built-in projector with a 120 ft. range that produces a 10 ft. radius burst of soporific radiation. Any living creature within this area must succeed at a DC 12 Fortitude save or be affected. Affected creatures fall asleep for 1d3 minutes unless they have more Hit Dice than the droid, in which case they are dazed for 1 round instead. Sleeping creatures can be awoken as if they were affected by a
sleep spell. The save DC is Constitution-based.