I'm new to the game, have only read the rules and haven't played it, yet. I was wondering if it would be cool to play a Droid or wether Droid PC will be too limited due to their starting attributes of one and "only" 175 XP.

Now I have read in various threads that there are many Droid PC. Please feel free to post them here and to convince me that a Droid will be a cool PC.

What kind of droid are you interested in playing? I can roll you one up in two shakes of a lamb's jiffy.

I'm interested in all kind of droids already in play.

175 honestly isnt all that bad. You can pull off stuff like this

Well rounded: 3,3,3,2,1,1

Specialized: 4,2,2,2,2,1

Super specialize: 5, 2,1,1,1,1

And several variations if you take 10 more EXP from obligation.

The thing is, for droids they have a valid excuse to have a 'dump stat' that ends up as 1.

Why does a protocol droid need brawn or agility?

Why does a combat droid need presence or knowledge?

etc

For Droid NPC in my game I used the Well rounded option. Droid was a sneaky inflitrator and thus didnt need presence or brawn.

Another option is to check out the various droids in the Adversaries section, which gives you a basic idea of the stat line for various droids. Stick to Rival and Nemesis level versions to provide a good reference. The stat line of a basic battle droid likely isn't a good example, but if you want to play a spunky astromech, you're likely investing in intellect, and cunning mostly... Protocol droids would be Intellect and Presence, where combat-focused droids would be more brawn/agility...

PC droids, of course, will have higher stats and skills, but the stats on page 410-412 of the core rulebook would at least give you a guideline of where to start.

Our PC droid thinks she's human so she went with very well-rounded human-like stats, even though they are supposed to be specialised.

One thing also, with a cyberware rating of 6, you can get a lot of cyber-mods. You can get +1 to Brawn, Agility and Intelligence if you have the money. And the extra skills seem to make a big difference initially.

And that's just mechanics - you can make great stories too. BeeDee is a 'companion' droid turned shadowrunner, an expert slicer and mechanic. Who writes trashy romances on the side and dates human guys. Leah has her voice down perfectly too, a really nice role-playing opportunity.

My friend is playing a super-speciailzed (Int 5, Brawn 2, Willpower 2, rest 1) Imperial torture droid retrofitted for technical and slicing work and upgraded with an R3 droidbrain. Technician Career, Mechanic Specialization but he's talking about buying into Slicer and maybe Doctor in the future. So far he acts a bit like The Robot from Lost in Space.