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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elephant" data-source="post: 5091859" data-attributes="member: 17431">Which I am -- and sitting at 12 HP behind a comparable biological PC, thus my concern on this count.Only having the Saga core rulebook, I can't take things like Superior Tech into account.  I can crib notes from other books on game days -- some of the other players have exhaustive SWSE libraries -- but on the whole, I'm ignorant of fine details of expansion material.  The exception is KOTOR stuff, and that's mostly familiarity with concepts from playing the video games.Organics can get shield generators, too, so I don't count that as a bonus in the droid's category (see KOTOR).  Besides, even if shields are only available to droids, they're prohibitively expensive.  OTOH, I think the KOTOR personal shields require armor proficiency, and they run out of charges, so droids do have a long-term advantage on that count.  Still, considering survivability through a single combat, they come out equal.With Jedi healing in the party, I think the droid repairs will actually be slower.  Good point about repair speed vs. natural healing speed though.*sigh*  "House-rule it" is unhelpful advice when you give it to a player.  And the GM's response when I brought this issue up was "you can take armor plating."  :'(Anyway, aside from that last bit, thanks for the info!</blockquote>