(Saga Edition): Star Wars Classics

[Ambrus]

The Replica Droid write-up in Threats of the Galaxy says they're playable as droid heroes; there's a sidebar statting them up as a species.

That's interesting; which other droids are available as heroes in TotG (or anywhere else)?

I'm trying to gauge which R-series astromech the Q7 is most similar to based on its background. I figure I could use the appropriate R-series as a starting template upon which to base a Q7. From what I can see the Q7 appears to have been in production by Industrial Automaton at roughly the same time as the R4 but with the military purpose of the R3. Perhaps the R2-R would make the best comparison.

 

[drothgery]

That's interesting; which other droids are available as heroes in TotG (or anywhere else)?

In TotG

R3, R4, R5, and R7 astromech droids are specifically listed as playable as droid heroes (R2-R droids are an oddball in that it's not explicitly stated that they can or can't be).
GH-7 Medical droids
EG-6 power droids
DRK1 probe droids
M-3P0 military protocal droids
TC protocol droids
PK worker droids

I know there's a sidebar in KotOR for playing an HK series (though neither the stock HK-24 nor the stock HK-50 are playable).

Other playable droids in KotOR
ET-74 communications droid
T3 utility droid
GE3 protocol droid
GG hospitality droid
Kellenech Technologies sentinel droid
R-8009 untility droid

in the Clone Wars
EW-3 droids
IM-6 medical droids
SP-4 analysis droids
LE repair droids
P2 astromech droids
Pit droids
5YQ protocol droids
IG-86 sentinel droids
FA-5 valet droids
FX-6 medical asistance droids
FA-4 pilot droids

Force Unleashed
Q7 astromech droids
BD-3000 attendant droids
Junk droids (but not Brute or Behemoth junk droids)
IT-0 interrogator droid
RA-7 protocol droid
R-1 recon droid

 

[Ambrus]

DRK1 probe droids

Ooh! The Dark Eye is playable? I love those. I played one in an old PBP campaign. Might it be possible to know how they're stated up? Pretty please?

 

[Shalimar]

HRDs can be played as droid heroes, as was pointed out, they are listed in threats of the Galaxy.

There are generally a few droids in every source book. You would have to go through every one to find them all.

As to whether or not droids can take a level of Jedi, they are allowed to, they just cannot take their first level in Jedi because then they would automatically gain the Force Sensitive feat as a starting feat which they are not allowed to have. As drothgery pointed out, there are official droid characters built with levels of jedi. Droids that take a level in Jedi after first have two options, to take Weapons Proficiency (Simple), which they already almost certainly have, or to take Weapons Proficiency (Lightsaber). Stella took the second option and then reprogrammed the feat into Weapons Proficiency (Advanced), paying 1000 credits for the privledge.

The reason why a droid would want to take Jedi levels is that Jedi have the best talents for melee combatants, like Elusive target that grants them an effective +5 to their reflex defense when they are adjacent to enemies, or acrobatic recovery and the various other gaurdian talents.

 

[Shayuri]

Okay. Character concept progresses.

I'm actually seeing my character as a Noble turned Scoundrel. A force-sensitive from Aldaraan who sensed the oncoming doom of her world and when she couldn't convince anyone else, she fled alone. Plagued by uncontrolled visions, by the trauma of the shock in the Force of Aldaraan's destruction, and of her own guilt for not having been able to save anyone important to her, she went a bit over the edge into a confused semi-delusional state. She's been living as a 'scoundrel' on another world since she fled, making little to no use of her entitlements...though she retains her ID, so could if she chose to.

I don't want to overplay the madness angle, but I thought it'd be fun if she was...odd.

 

[Shalimar]

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In TotG

R3, R4, R5, and R7 astromech droids are specifically listed as playable as droid heroes (R2-R droids are an oddball in that it's not explicitly stated that they can or can't be).
GH-7 Medical droids
EG-6 power droids
DRK1 probe droids
M-3P0 military protocal droids
TC protocol droids
PK worker droids

I know there's a sidebar in KotOR for playing an HK series (though neither the stock HK-24 nor the stock HK-50 are playable).

Other playable droids in KotOR
ET-74 communications droid
T3 utility droid
GE3 protocol droid
GG hospitality droid
Kellenech Technologies sentinel droid
R-8009 untility droid

in the Clone Wars
EW-3 droids
IM-6 medical droids
SP-4 analysis droids
LE repair droids
P2 astromech droids
Pit droids
5YQ protocol droids
IG-86 sentinel droids
FA-5 valet droids
FX-6 medical asistance droids
FA-4 pilot droids

Force Unleashed
Q7 astromech droids
BD-3000 attendant droids
Junk droids (but not Brute or Behemoth junk droids)
IT-0 interrogator droid
RA-7 protocol droid
R-1 recon droid

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There are too many droids too count in the Clone Wars Campaign guide, though very few of them are playable droids.

Scum and Villiany
RX Series Pilot Droid
Industrial Automaton K-Series Spaceport Control Droid

Legacy Era droids wouldn't be around yet

 

[Ambrus]

Wow. Thanks for that comprehensive droid heroes list drothgery.

So, the Q7 is actually already stated up in Forced Unleashed as a playable hero? Now I just need to get the stats for it.

 

[Shalimar]

Ooh! The Dark Eye is playable? I love those. I played one in an old PBP campaign. Might it be possible to know how they're stated up? Pretty please?

They are playable but almost entirely unsuited for playing if that makes sense. They are non-heroic 3 so they start with 12 hp. And they don't have the capacity to speak, so they can't do much if any interacting woth anyone. With 4 levels to play with you'd be able to make it not quite so fragile, and it'd be much harder to hit. You'd even be able to buy and install a vocabulator with all your cash, but you would quickly run into the issue of only having a strength of 8 as a limiter on your ability to add new systems.

 

[drothgery]

So, the Q7 is actually already stated up in Forced Unleashed as a playable hero? Now I just need to get the stats for it.

Well, the Q7 is statted, and it's stated that they can be played as droid heroes; they're no harder to play than anything the core rulebook that's playable as a droid hero. Replica droids are probably among the easiest droids to build a PC from, becuase they're statted a species rather than a droid model.

 

[Shalimar]

Your better off just designing a custom droid than playing a droid that has non-heroic levels as that is going to make you incredibly fragile, and very easy to hit since non-heroic levels don't add to your defenses, not to mention you'd be losing out on a few talents and feats.

If your going to play an Astromech your best bet is to play one with only heroic levels like an R2-R. With 14,000 credits you can purchase the hovering locomotion if you want it, as well as buy a few other upgrades. I'd put a vocabulator on the top of the list though since not even the other droid would be willing to let on that she is able to understand binary