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Few other thoughts I had for this android character
creation. Obvious hindrances would be stuff like susceptible to EMPs or
some such, very noisy (clank!, clank!) & maybe oddball body types (labor bot
being a treaded mini bulldozer critter with huge pincers for hands). Of
course, certain body types would negate some or all of these
problems.
Heh-heh, be real nasty & come up with a complete 54 suit
chart for body type & have as a potential 2S, "android tech spirit is housed
in a lab central computer network. You have no mobile features, but all
mental Traits are D12s...."
Jeff S
my junker's familiar is an andriod. the
powers balance out well since you can't have any other arcane background, and
nix makes for an interesting character. of course, anyone who wants to
repair an android will have to use the same skills a body doc has. Oh,
also, a good suggestion i've gotten is to make the focus the chest. i
think the character should choose between head, upper guts, and lower guts for
their focus.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:43
PM
Subject: Re: [HOE] Android Edge
-interesting idea. have you play tested it with
anyone yet?
~rob
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:22
PM
Subject: [HOE] Android Edge
i promised a full edge with a table, so here
it is.
BTW, anyone that's read my story can maybe
understand better where nix came from.
Android
5
Your waster's one of those andriods that had an "awakening". In
truth, what usually happened was that a tech spirit wandered into the AI
programming for an early andriod and it now has all the benefits of
personality and free will. yipee! What this means in game
terms is that you suffer wounds like harrowed, only a shot to the head
will destroy you. then, your tech spirit self is blown all to hell.
unless you have the smarts to evacuate the body(it takes about 5 minutes),
that means you're gone forever, no hunting grounds for you.
another
disadvantage of this is that the AI still has a small but noticable grasp
on you, lowering your spirit die type to a maximum of d6. plus, you can't
buy any other arcane background. ow. but, being part tech spirit and
all, you can use ANY of the powers that your browser spirit type has at
level 6(still costs chips, look at the junkman cometh). in addition,
you still have a link with the hunting grounds and may help direct tech
spirits to a junker, giving said junker a +3 to his science:occult
engineering roll for building a device. oh yeah, choose a tech
spirit type, so you can determine which powers you can use.
Android Table:
2:you're an early
android. not so well-built. your maximum die type for any
corporeal trait is d10.
3:A labor 'bot is where you made your
home. all corporeal traits gain a die type to a maximum of d12, but
all your mental traits lose a die type to a minimum of d4.
4:You found
a maid robot to inhabit. nothing changes.
5:You found your way
into a pleasure 'bot. gain the edges purty, the voice:soothing, and
raise your mien a step to a maximum of d12. also, you get the randy
hinderance.
6:Your body is that of an infiltration android. gain
3 levels of sneak and raise your nimbleness by a die type.
7:Yours is a
pit fighter. Gain the hinderances bloodthirsty, vengeful, and mean
as a rattler, but raise any two corporeal traits by a die
type.
8:You've got a teacher bot's body. Raise your knowledge by
a die type and gain your choice of any acadamia at level 5. The
problem with this, however, is that your body wasn't built to fight.
subtract a die type from your strength, vigor, and quickness.
9:You
made your way into a tactical droid. gain leadership at level 3, and
raise your smarts by a die type.
10:A scout droid seemed good enough
for you. Get 3 levels of search and trackin', and raise your cognition by
a die type to a max of d12.
j:Your body is a hazardous-materials
'bot. Raise deftness by 2 steps, and vigor by one.
q:You found a
soldier bot to enter. Raise stength, quickness, and vigor by one die
type.
k:Lucyily enough, you got a late-model assasin android as your
body. get sneak at level 4, raise numbleness by 2 die
types.
a:You got into a junker-built android. You probably asked
him to do it for you, too. choose another browser
type:you can use both of their powers now.
jr:your spirit is really
human. how you got mistaken for a tech spirit is for you to figure
out. but, remove the restriction on your spirit, and raise it a step
from what it was before you reduced it, to a maximum of d12. You can
choose what kind of body you want.
jb:your robot has a
malfunction. let your GM worry about what it does to you, she can be
really nasty about it
too.
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