Hey all!

My team has a Gonk droid that they found and they want to keep him with them. I was thinking of a way to make the Gonk fun and useable, as they're literally everywhere. They're slow and cumbersome, but look sturdy. I wanted to make them a low level rival to make life fun for them. This is what I came up with:

GNK Power Droid

B1/A1/I1/C1/W1/P1

Soak- 5

Wounds- 11

Talents:

Ponderous (like the hutt talent, limiting maneuvers and adding Setback to Athletics and Coordination)

Recharge- Player can negate an out of ammo despair by spending a maneuver at the Gonk droid to re-charge their fuel cells. Only Useable once per encounter. Add +B when assisting with mechanics checks to repair ship System Strain

Skills:

Computers 1

Mechanics 1

My reasoning for the 2 skills is the fact that they are power droids, and while not good on their own, they can do rudimentary commands. Being essentially walking power generators, I feel like borrowing from their usage in Battlefront (granting ammunition) and their utility as a power generator (Repairing system strain) gives them utility, and a way to use them beyond just plugging them in and letting them be a generator.

Thoughts? I originally had their Wounds at 15, but I thought that made them a bit TOO sturdy.

If you're using them to refuel ships (recover strain) you might want to give them INT 2, maybe increase their Mechanics skill to 2 and give them a rank or two of the Fine Tuning talent. You could restrict it so the talent could only be used when refuelling a ship, if you want to keep the power droid flavour.

I had imagined them as a small walking power core. I would say they could recharge anything that uses electricity (power packs but not blaster packs if you want to be more realistic) or directly power up to Silhouette 2 or perhaps 3 items. Landspeeder is dead? It can jump start it. E-web (or other large piece of gear) power pack goes down? It can help out. A small walking fusion plant. A dumb walking battery. I wouldn't give it much in the way of mechanical skills. Perhaps diagnostic, but the thing is never shown to even have arms or a data socket that I recall.

Unless it’s used as a Rebel spy to transport data to the cell on Lothal.

If you're using them to refuel ships (recover strain) you might want to give them INT 2, maybe increase their Mechanics skill to 2 and give them a rank or two of the Fine Tuning talent. You could restrict it so the talent could only be used when refuelling a ship, if you want to keep the power droid flavour.

To keep the "dumb droid" flavor, maybe bump mechanics to 2 instead? That way their actual intellect can stay low, but their SS repair stays high. I like the idea of fine tuning, since they are helping boost power.

So, keeping their specs the same, we'll keep it

1/1/1/1/1/1

Mechanics 2

Computers 1

Soak- 5

Wounds- 11

Talents:

Ponderous (like the hutt talent, limiting maneuvers and adding Setback to Athletics and Coordination)

Recharge- Player can negate an out of ammo despair by spending a maneuver at the Gonk droid to re-charge their fuel cells. Only Useable once per encounter. Add +B when assisting with mechanics checks to repair ship System Strain

Fine Tuning 2

Thoughts on the reloading?

Unless it’s used as a Rebel spy to transport data to the cell on Lothal.

I'd love to see a Gonk droid that is sick and tired of being taken for granted and ignored and becomes a serial killer. And nobody ever suspects that the plodding thing is what is crushing people to death in their sleep.

Ponderous is for the Droid to never exceed 2 maneuvers in one turn. Awkward is the ability to add 3 setback to Brawl, Melee, and Coordination checks.

Check out the Venerable Hutt Stat block in LONH pg. 47.

Is it established that Gonk Droids are low intelligence anywhere? I never figured they'd be...

Is it established that Gonk Droids are low intelligence anywhere? I never figured they'd be...

"Gonk", say it out loud and listen to yourself: Does it sound like someone solving partial differential equations? Not to me.

Is it established that Gonk Droids are low intelligence anywhere? I never figured they'd be...

"Gonk", say it out loud and listen to yourself: Does it sound like someone solving partial differential equations? Not to me.

Same could be said for Gank. Or Jabba. Or Sheev...

Just because no one went through the expence of installing a vocabulator in them doesn't mean they necessarily have low INT. It just means that they don't need to talk to non-droids in order to do their jobs.

Astromech droids are relatively intelligent even though they sound like electronic canaries.

Unless it’s used as a Rebel spy to transport data to the cell on Lothal.

Or how about a jukebox conversion !

It may not say they're stupid in cannon, but in legends they're described to have only simple AI.

Ponderous is for the Droid to never exceed 2 maneuvers in one turn. Awkward is the ability to add 3 setback to Brawl, Melee, and Coordination checks.

Check out the Venerable Hutt Stat block in LONH pg. 47.

Thank you! I thought I messed something up. I'll make sure I add that in when I'm back home.