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So I'm trying to use the crawl generator on the star wars page, but for some reason I can't. So far I just get the screen to load up and say crawl generator, but then nothing. Am I supposed to be doing something else to get it to work? http://www.starwars.com/games-apps/star-wars-crawl-creator
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Jimmy4400nav posted:So I'm trying to use the crawl generator on the star wars page, but for some reason I can't. So far I just get the screen to load up and say crawl generator, but then nothing. Am I supposed to be doing something else to get it to work?  Just shows a begin button then I can start my crawl.
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Jan 29, 2015 14:45
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What happens when I get double career skills? Explorer has Astrogation, Cool, Knowledge (Lore), Knowledge (Outer Rim), Knowledge (Xenology), Perception, Piloting (Space), and Survival. The Big game hunter also has Knowledge (Xenology) and Survival. Do I get a free rank on those?
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Jan 30, 2015 17:44
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If you choose those particular skills, yes.
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Jan 30, 2015 17:49
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Yes, but it still caps out at 2 ranks at character creation. So if you had 1 rank from race, 1 rank from career and 1 rank from specialization you'd have to put one of those ranks from career or specialization somewhere else (unless you're a Corellian).
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Jan 30, 2015 17:51
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I revived that Clone game, someone else post! Especially Mustache!
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Jan 30, 2015 18:17
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I want to make a droid character in Age of Rebellion, but I was told by the GM that droids tend to kinda suck at everything. Is that true? How do I make a droid who sucks less? They seem to start with lots of XP, but since they start with all stats at one, they're sorta subpar compared to how every other race gets less XP but starts with tons of 2s and some 3s. I'm the only noob in the group, and everyone else has reasonably good/pretty powerfully made characters since they know the system. Should I just skip on droid and make something else, at least for a first character?
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Jan 30, 2015 21:49
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Your GM is wrong. Droids can be awesome in this system, and they can be built to be great characters. Just make sure you put your starting exp into characteristics, and you'll be fine. What kind of character were you thinking? 
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Jan 30, 2015 22:01
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KittyEmpress posted:I want to make a droid character in Age of Rebellion, but I was told by the GM that droids tend to kinda suck at everything. Is that true? How do I make a droid who sucks less? Droids are fine. You can build a more focused character if you want with more XP. Just be sure to really bump your characteristics at chargen, you can't do it again until the end of a talent tree.
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Jan 30, 2015 22:02
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That's a ridiculous statement. If anything, droids tend to be hyper-specialized specifically because they have all that extra XP to throw into the Characteristics that they care about while ignoring the ones that they don't.
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Jan 30, 2015 22:03
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I don't think a droid should be your first character, since droids tend to be very min-maxy and don't follow the rules of other characters with regards to health as much. On the other hand, that is exactly what makes them awesome. Because of their high starting XP, you can raise a lot of Attributes to 3 or 4, and leave everything you don't feel like you want to use at 1. Of course this means if you use a skill with a 1 attribute...you're kind of screwed and making anything happen out of that is really hard. But really for every character you make, invest as much starting xp into Attributes at chargen, because you can't raise them later.
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Jan 30, 2015 22:04
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Well, if you're going to be bad at most things (since that 75 XP can't cover for the 120 XP in stats you're missing), you may as well decide that the things you are going to be good at are the things you are going to be absolutely awesome at. Pick a stat, boost it to 4 or 5, get a bunch of skills that key off of that stat and talents that key off of those skills and become the master of your domain (such as taking Intelligence and then picking up the mechanics and computers stuff, maybe medicine and knowledge on the side, or going Strength and full murderbot or Dex and pilot/shooty bot). Of course, you can become similarly focused in a few areas as a race who starts out with some bonuses in those areas, while also being well-rounded. Of course, droids have their own advantages like not needing to eat/breathe and being able to repair themselves without penalty. But yeah, droids are best used as specialists, otherwise you're probably better off playing someone else.
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KittyEmpress posted:I want to make a droid character in Age of Rebellion, but I was told by the GM that droids tend to kinda suck at everything. Is that true? How do I make a droid who sucks less? Droids are more specialized, but not necessarily worse. If you buy an additional 5 xp at character creation, you can end up with 4-3-2-2-1-1 in your stats, which is totally workable. You've got some cool narrative abilities; immunity to disease, poison, suffocation, all that jazz. Repairing yourself is easier than organics using medicine on themselves, Emergency Repair patches are somewhat worse than stimpaks, but you can use as many of them as you need, and the ability to have gear built in is pretty useful. You'll never have to roll Vigilance to see if you remembered your toolkit or left it on the ship. You also get 4 more skills at character creation, which is a lot; it's worth at least 20 xp, or more if you're doubling up. Also, droids are fun and rad, so go crazy. So, my group is starting up an AoR campaign with some space combat, and I've been looking at Gain the Advantage and I'm not really satisfied with it. I'm thinking of houseruling it to last until the other ship also gains the advantage rather than til the end of the next round, and letting you ignore the penalties/gain the benefits of Stay on Target as well as Evasive Maneuvers. Thoughts? e. It's Gain the Advantage, stupid.
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Jan 30, 2015 22:05
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TheTofuShop posted:What kind of character were you thinking? I'm actually not sure yet, since one of the other characters isn't set in stone yet. But we're either gonna need someone who is talky/leadery, or a pilot/repair person. So either a Protocol Droid or an... Astromech? Though C3 doesn't seem particularly 'leader'-y. T3 is the best droid though so playing an astromech and repairing everything while rolling around and being small seems cool to me. Edit: To be specific, we currently have, locked in - A huge Wookie Soldier, focused on being huge and wookie-y, a human who is mostly good at sneaking around, another human who shoots stuff but also shoots stuff while in ships, and the last person is trying to choose betwen a pilot-y Duros who repairs everything and keeps the ship running, and a talkaive diplomat human. I'm gonna fill in for whatever the last person chooses not to be. KittyEmpress fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Droids have a lot of potential. In addition to what the others said there is the double-edged sword of how most people in the SWU treat droids. They don't give a poo poo about them and frequently ignore them. They're also very ubiquitous (especially droids as popular as the R-series Astro/Agromechs) and as far as the organics are concern, they mostly look alike if not for the paintjobs. This is great for sneaking around and doing mischief. In fact as a GM unless the enemy was specifically tipped off to a rogue droid, I'd probably be generous with boost dice for "stealth" or deception depending on the circumstances. If I was gonna play a droid, I'd be an Astromech. I'd also try to get away with as much "in plain sight" sneaking around as possible. Just roll around places acting like you belong there and see what you can get away with. If anyone stops you just twitter droid speak at them (feel free to start making fun of them if they can't understand you), nod along to whatever they say and then keep going. Maybe even pick up a "Disguise Kit" that is just a collection of paint for blending in better (Imperials seem to love glossy black droids) and a collection of (fake) popular/common restraining bolts to wear to help sell the idea you're just a subservient little minion and not about to ruin their day. Of course, once the jig is up, that is when the holdout blaster mounted in your head comes into play.  (maybe buy one of those concealed holsters and refluff it as a well hidden attachment bay that'll hopefully not be noticed on a casual examination of your accessories). Basicaly Astromechs are awesome and there is a lot of creative interpretation potential for various gear too. Also, T3-M4 would probably start out as a Technician/Slicer (since IIRC he was custom upgraded for slicing) while R2-D2 starts out as a Technician/Mechanic. [edit] And if Star Wars Rebels has taught me anything, there is a plenty of potential for "rear end in a top hat astromech". Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Galaga Galaxian posted:If I was gonna play a droid, I'd be an Astromech. I'd also try to get away with as much "in plain sight" sneaking around as possible. But I wanted to make my Astromech be painted with crudely done flames and explosions. I dunno that sounds a bit cooler than being a sneaky little one to me. And fits more with our group, which is made up of three people built around 'kill things good'
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"Hot-Rod" Astromech paintjob sounds pretty cool too. Hm, I wonder if chameleon paint exists in Star Wars.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:"Hot-Rod" Astromech paintjob sounds pretty cool too. Hm, I wonder if chameleon paint exists in Star Wars. That was mostly a joke. When I said I wanted to make a droid the first time, one of the guys in the group was like 'can my guy paint flames on it and hook up some flamethrowers to it? He'd fuckin' love that."
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Bah, droids are the best. I've mentioned my Droid that's all about Cunning and Deceit before. I play off the fact that no one would ever suspect a protocol droid of lying right to their face and sling dice to back it up. It's hilarious. We get a crazy amount of leverage, and I do a little Skulduggery and Charm on the side when needed. Rolling a Despair can be fun if you're a droid with a quick thinking GM - I was lying to a local cantina owner over something or other, failed miserably with a Despair, and the barkeep decided the faulty droid without any owner was clearly open for salvage rights. I've been dragged behind a speeder, stolen by Jawas, targeted by imperial forces for stealing a star ship... Droid character is best character. You're only limited by imagination in an RPG.
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Jan 31, 2015 00:29
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If you're playing a droid, play an R7. They're really good and zapping people with the Arc Welder is a cool fun time. Stay on Target also has expanded rules for playing as the astromech in a snubfighter.
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So my character has been decided. Astromech Pilot/Repair/Intelligence person, with a few points in stuff for combat. And I was allowed to equip myself with a flame projector, and claim it's hidden enough that it's not super noticeable at first glance, until my head opens up and I start spouting flames. Gonna set all the stupid organics on fire~ Edit: specifically I am playing a 'utility droid', a t15 legacy model at base. My droid was found with a still active power core but no functionality by the rebellion three years before. A rebel mechanic decided to take it for scrap. Eventually it worked its way into the computer systems with a very antiquated computer link it was built with, and its designation changed to 'repair', with a specific note to not wipe memory. Its now gotten upgrade to near standard droid specifications, with a few specific upgrades that it ordered. The Rebels had no idea that the orders were not, in fact, from above. T15 eventually got tired of being forced to do maintenance and got itself equipped for battle with some creative use of funds. It then at the same time inserted a new recruit into the system 'Tiff', a pilot of great merit and skill. Somehow the group T15 got assigned to work with didn't notice that a droid was driving the ship until long after it had left the rebel base to head to its mission, and entered lightspeed. One of the members of the crew wanted to turn back and tell the rebels - the wookie - so 'Tiff' beeped at them very angrily, then activated its flamethrower and threatened the wookie. Instead of getting mad or anything, the Wookie decided it loving loves this droid, hell yeah. The various humans on the team are not so sure. T15 is not particularly loyal to the rebels, but she figures they are her best chance to burn lots of deserving organics. She may or may not be planning to destroy all human oppressors that mistreat their droids. KittyEmpress fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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KittyEmpress posted:So my character has been decided. Astromech Pilot/Repair/Intelligence person, with a few points in stuff for combat. And I was allowed to equip myself with a flame projector, and claim it's hidden enough that it's not super noticeable at first glance, until my head opens up and I start spouting flames. That's the spirit!
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Jan 31, 2015 03:23
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You'll fit right into FFG Star Wars with that attitude, FFG also have a sort of fetish for rebellious droids who seek emancipation.
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Jan 31, 2015 03:31
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As they should, death to the slavemasters, Droid power.
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My Duros Ace's best buddy is his co-pilot astromech. It's like playing a buddy cop movie and it's great and also good.
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Endman posted:My Duros Ace's best buddy is his co-pilot astromech. It's like playing a buddy cop movie and it's great and also good. A droid doesn't like, belong to you man. They're your friends and equals, not your blaster. Death to all organics. Beep boop, YAAAAAAAARGH. Our team is really rag tag, I'll post more of the backgrounds and info if anyone actually cares to hear.
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Jan 31, 2015 03:40
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Hell, a droid I played in a couple of our dev playtest games was YR-1Y, a YR-series shipwright droid who was essentially Bender Bending Rodriguez in Star Wars. He was formerly a killer for the Hutts. His MO was to sabotage a ship's hyperdrive so that it entered hyperspace but never came out again. He was a tremendous rear end in a top hat and an abject coward and fun as hell to play. A few of the other players were serious-bidness white hat "Heroes" and couldn't understand why I'd want to play that character. I suggested that they had no sense of humor.
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Jan 31, 2015 03:44
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Star Wars isn't Star Wars without the comedy. I run a pretty heavy, serious-business game, but there's always room for shenanigans. Particular involving droids, or lightsabers, or droids trying to wield lightsabers. Honestly, I've never had more fun deciding what threats and despairs mean than with droids and lightsabers.
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Jan 31, 2015 03:47
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Exactly. I think some gamers get waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too wrapped up in white hat/black hat stuff and have to be humorless "heroes" all the time. Yeah, okay buddy. You go ahead and play Optimus Prime. I'll play Jazz, have fun, and get poo poo accomplished.
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KittyEmpress posted:A droid doesn't like, belong to you man. They're your friends and equals, not your blaster. Death to all organics. I am always interested in other people's Star Wars characters.
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LightWarden posted:I am always interested in other people's Star Wars characters. Same here. I love to see what people do with these archetypes.
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LightWarden posted:I am always interested in other people's Star Wars characters. Okay, well Tiff is our Engineer/Mechanic, as well as Pilot, and has been described above. Our Soldier/Commando is a wookie named Sheila. Not really her name, but no one wants to try and pronounce a wookie name, so her name is Sheila. She is a brawling specialist. She was at one point a slave in a Hutt's gladiatorial matches. The Rebellion at one point bombed said hutt, as he was supporting the Empire covertly, promised great rewards once they got all the hutt territory. At that point, Sheila broke her binds and beat the hutt to death with her fists. She's kinda hosed up in the head, and loves killing imps. pretty standard Wookie stuff. Also hates weaklings and people afraid to kill, and generally is annoyed by droids and how they're always just puny trash compactors to be pushed around. Thus enjoyed having hair singed by one. She also has a weakness for small animals, and is the reason our ship is starting out infested with Gizka. We have a Spy/Infiltrator who is a correllian born human named Charles. Yeah.. He was rich, extremely so, and then ended up sleeping with an Imperial Admiral's wife. And then his daughter. And his mistress. The Admiral branded him a rebel criminal, and put a massive bounty on his head. He's now mostly poor, and hates it. He doesn't particularly like the rebels, but they're the only ones who will take him. He's really really good with poison, and OOCly I'm pretty sure his backstory is a cover, and he's actually an assassin. That's just me having played with the player before, and he always likes to put down a plausible backstory and then reveal it was all a ruse/lie. I think this because he has a very good medical score, and an extensive supply of poisons. He is rather racist, and hates Sheila but is terrified of her. Thinks Tiff is crazy and wants to wipe her memory core. Also hates that there are no women on board besides a 'rug'. Our Diplomat/Agitator is a human who I don't remember where they're from. Some backwater farming planet. His name is Fernando. He was an interplanetary reporter, and eventually grew tired of having to spin his articles as great victories for the empire, after taking pictures of dead kids and slaughtered villages/towns of unarmed people. He's went underground and became a reporter on the holonet. He'd report actual statistics and information that was going on, accompanied by less than nice pictures of what the Empire actually was doing. Eventually the Imperials tracked him down and captured him. The prison skiff he got loaded onto also had a rebel commodore however, and was raided by the Rebels. He quickly signed on and since then has used his photography and stirring rhetoric to make planetary governments side with the rebels, even just secretly. He doesn't mind Sheila, and had visited Kashyyk to take pictures of the devastation the Imperials wrought on it. He understands her without a translator, something that made her like him. Thinks Tiff is too quick to violence - particularly because he's seen what droids can do without feeling bad. Another loving human is our Soldier/Sharpshooter. His name is Michael. He's old. He looks like he's in his 50s.. He fought in the clone wars. He is a clone. After he gunned down a Jedi with his unit when ordered to, he continued with the imperial navy for awhile. Eventually he got tired of the atrocities and the blood on his hands of killing a Jedi who had saved his life before was too much. He was going to kill himself, but found love in a woman who didn't mind him being a clone. He defected and went AWOL from the imperial military, moving to a backwater planet and becoming a farmer with her. He spent 16~ish years of his life learning to farm, and loving her. Eventually one day the Imperials found him, but on a day where he had gone to market. His wife and three (adopted of war orphans) kids were gunned down mercilessly. He reacted like any sane person would, and took up his old sniper rifle and started picking off the imperial garrison one by one. He was on a suicide mission to kill every imp on the planet. He was eventually captured, and happened to be on the same prison skiff as Fernando and the unnamed Commodore. Fernando's stirring rhetoric made Michael not want to just die after taking revenge, and now he's on a mission to make up for his past, by killing as many imps as it takes to take them out of power. He has a very dry wit though, and doesn't mind suicidal odds if it means big damage to the Empire. He took part in the razing of Kashyyk, and is currently hiding that fact from Sheila. At the same time, he feels like it's partially his fault and is considering telling the angry wookie with the ability to rip off his arms as much. Thinks 'tiff' is a danger to everyone, but is fine with keeping her around as long as she keeps it pointed at Imps. No one likes Charles. Edit: I'm just gonna stick an edit in here to complain about how all the people I played with always play humans. So boring. Edit: Also, Charles has a loving ponytail, if you need any more reasons to dislike him. KittyEmpress fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Jan 31, 2015 04:19
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Why would you play a human? They don't start with a 3 in any stat! Only reason to play a human is to be Corellian, get 10 extra XP and then get 5 agility/3 piloting to be the emperor of flight.
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Why would starting with a 3 in a stat be good? Basically every species I've seen has a 10 in one stat and 10 less XP to compensate, so you basically come out even if you want to shore up that 1 to a 2. Though I guess if you're trying to min/max you can ignore that 1 or whatever, but while it can certainly be min/maxed this doesn't look like a game that'd handle it very gracefully. Though I have not actually played it, unfortunately. Plus, I guess I'm a fool who likes well rounded characters (a trio of 3s seems more appealing to me than a 4 and a 3) and if they take that 10XP extra obligation a Human can even get 3s in four stats.
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It's a joke, though I did forget that humans have 110 XP and not the 100 that many other species have. Anyways, starting with 3 means that it's cheaper to get to 4, especially when XP is best spent on your characteristics at the start. Still not sure if buying a 5 is entirely worth it compared to rounding out your other ability scores, though there are some characteristics that could be worth it (Agility, maybe Presence, Cunning or Intellect).
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There's also flavor and how some races have neat special talents, like how Chiss can see in the dark. Once my exam is over, I'm gonna start running a series of loosely interconnected one off games in TG since there aren't many active games going... The goal for each story will be to play fast and lose with a couple people, and they'll be setup/themed like films. If anyone has any interest in that, keep a look out.
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Togruta have a really nice racial ability, and Trandoshans are nice if you're going to be in the thick of it. And some of the unofficial races are fun like Gamorreans ability to stack Vicious even higher so you can kill or horrifically maim anyone in your path (admittedly you could probably do better with a Disruptor Rifle).
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I think I went completely the opposite direction with my droid as everybody else in that he doesn't give any fucks at all about droid rights or emancipation. The way he sees it, if they're letting themselves be pushed around by the organics then they deserve everything they get, and should actually work for acceptance rather than feeling like they're entitled to it. The fact he was built as a seven foot tall machine of death that may or may not have been originally intended as an assassination droid, rather than a three foot tall garbage can with no opposable digits, doesn't factor in at all and the rest of those droids just need to learn to lift themselves up by their own footcuffs.
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Judgement posted:I think I went completely the opposite direction with my droid as everybody else in that he doesn't give any fucks at all about droid rights or emancipation. The way he sees it, if they're letting themselves be pushed around by the organics then they deserve everything they get, and should actually work for acceptance rather than feeling like they're entitled to it. The fact he was built as a seven foot tall machine of death that may or may not have been originally intended as an assassination droid, rather than a three foot tall garbage can with no opposable digits, doesn't factor in at all and the rest of those droids just need to learn to lift themselves up by their own footcuffs. Please tell me your droid was made by United Nanoworks of Kuat, Limited (aka U.N.K.L) and is designated T0-M) Fuzz fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Just ran a Trandoshan Medic, an Ithorian Mechanic, a human Sharpshooter and a Duros Pilot through 90% of the second act of Arda in 8 hours. Going to have a sore throat for days from talking continuously for eight hours, but it was good fun. Highlights include the Trandoshan being a better shot than anyone in the party (in all fairness, she has Agi 3 and Ranged Heavy 2), the Ithorian and Duros trying to rig a grenade to blow up a bunch of critter corpses to make it look like the party hadn't taken one of the cached datapads and blowing themselves up instead, and the Ithorian deciding he'd investigate things by crossing his arms and staring at people (failing on his untrained Coercion checks).
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