Hello forum-goers,
A player of mine wishes to create something very specific. Before I continued; I understand that the player's idea in question might be overpowered in some manner but I wish to make this work, hence why I'm coming here for advice on how to deal with this. With that said, look below:
My player wants to play with a character who uses a blast shield of some kind (ei. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gungan_personal_energy_shield ) and be able to deploy a turret droid of some kind as well. I've told him I'm willing to go through with this but will simply give him a disabled/damaged turret droid to begin with and a working but weak energy shield. His end-game idea is that he'll be able to set up traps with 3 or so of these droids when he can, using the shield to close distance on ranged targets to engage in melee combat (or eventually ranged combat).
The shield is the item I would like help with but any ideas for a tiny turret droid would be nice. So far, I've concluded the shield can only ever be used against ranged opponents, melee or brawl combat will have to be done normally. My question is, how should I stat the shield? With defense or add talent 'Reflect' or both? I plan to let him modify it as the game continues on. Thanks for your help in advance.
Just a FYI, I only have EotE core rule book, so I do not have access to any other books.