Just looking at character creation for Droids, not something I've looked at much before to be honest.

I notice that all their Ability stats are all at 1, then in the Special Abilities section it states "Droids have a cybernetic implant cap of 6 instead of their Brawn rating". Does this mean that they can allocate these 6 points to their Ability scores however they wish (which would give them a total of 12 points in starting abilities, the same as all other species, or does it mean that the Abilities have to be increased by the purchase of cybernetic implants?

Cheers!

Normal characters can't have more Cybernetic Implants and Replacements than their Brawn score.

Droids may have 6 Cybernetics, regardless of Brawn score.

Some Talents/Items can increase this cap.

You can spend XP at character creation to increase your Abilities. Some Cybernetics (which are generally too expensive to buy at character creation) also increase Abilities.

Droids are good at specialising in one/two areas. Living races are better generalists.

Droids start with more starting xp but have 1s in the characteristics to start.

Ah ok that makes sense... That’s why they have the extra starting XP, so it can be spent on abilities.

Cool... Thanks both 👍

On 8/3/2019 at 3:08 PM, AceSolo5 said:

Ah ok that makes sense... That’s why they have the extra starting XP, so it can be spent on abilities.

Cool... Thanks both 👍

They also get more free skill ranks at character creation - a free rank in six of the eight skills from their career, rather than four, and three of the skills from their first specialisation, rather than two.

On 8/6/2019 at 3:34 AM, Dafydd said:

They also get more free skill ranks at character creation - a free rank in six of the eight skills from their career, rather than four, and three of the skills from their first specialisation, rather than two.

Which does kinda run counter to their statline encouraging a specialized, almost min-maxed character. *shrug*

All those skill ranks help build a Specialist in their field:

"Astromech Droid"

B1 A3 I4 C2 W2 P1 (180 XP, need +5 XP from extra Obligation.

Technician (Mechanic)

Free Career Skills: Astrogation, Computers, Discipline, Mechanics, Perception, Piloting (Planetary)

Free Specialization Skills: Mechanics, Piloting (Space), Skulduggery

His dice pools are:

Mechanics: YYGG

Astrogation, Computers: YGGG

Piloting (Planetary/Space): YGG

Discipline, Perception, Skulduggery: YG

Obviously better with Intellect skills and decent with Agility.