Shard

[garhkal]

[wolfe]

[garhkal]

[Raven Redstar]

[Raven Redstar]

Now, my next question is. I've been looking through the already drafted templates, and I'm trying to decide how much money to allow the player to work with on the droid body. I was thinking about giving him somewhere along the lines of 3000 credits, this is to have the main body, and then whatever else to upgrade. We already picked out the droid body he'll use which is 2500 credits.

[wolfe]

[Raven Redstar]

Ok, so I finally managed to get in contact with my player. We haven't had too much time to discuss the template itself. Right now he's decided on how to spend his last D, but it looks like we're going with:

Knowledge: 4D
Mechanical: 3D
Perception: 3D
Technical: 6D

Control: 1D
Sense: 1D

My player is still torn on whether he wants to increase the knowledge at the cost of mechanical. He seems to be leaning more toward 5D knowledge and 2D mechanical.

Also, as I stated before, the player and I are going to work with 3000 credits to make the droid itself. At this point I'm not charging him anything extra for the shard integrator. The droid chassis is 2500 credits. Which is going to leave him with 500. He's going to have either 2D in dex or str, and 1D+1 in the other. Or he can level it out to 1D+2 in both.

Move is going to stay the same. And I'm working on some custom rules for integrating the advantages and disadvantages of D6 space. He's going to get a few of those, such as Cultural unfamiliarity (R3) which will give him at least a -6 to many social situations and information skills. In addition to the inability to attempt skills that are not trained up by at least +1, if things start looking off, I may up that to +2 or +1D, not to mention there will be GM ruling on whether it's appropriate for his character to know it. Also he's getting the Prejudice(R1) disadvantage. Because of his droid appearance, droids are somewhat distrusted, and considered to be only property, which will also give him some penalties in social interactions, but likely only -2 or -3.

With a 6D technical, he is going to be a beast when it comes to computer systems and any sorts of repair rolls. Which is what the player wants. He has decided that he really is not interested in becoming very competent in combat, only learning just enough to be able to stop things from trying to harm him.

Currently I'm not really too concerned because is most combat situations the other players will be able to shine, However this character will be very useful for any of the crew's technical and hopefully informational needs eventually.

[Raven Redstar]

Got a chance to talk with the player again, he's decided to go for a more well rounded. So the above stats stand, Decided to keep his Mechanical up, just in case.

Based on the Jedi master who's accompanying him and training him, I've come up with the following skill list for the template:

Dexterity; Dodge, Lightsaber, Running
Knowledge; Alien Species, Cultures, Languages, Planetary Systems, Scholar: Jedi Lore, Willpower.
Mechanical; Astrogation, Communications, Repulsorlift Operation, Sensors, Space Transports, Starship Shields.
Perception; Hide, Persuasion, Search, Sneak
Strength; Climbing/Jumping, Lifting
Technical; Armor Repair, Computer Programming/Repair, Droid Programming, Droid Repair, Lightsaber Repair, Repulsorlift Repair, Security, Space Transports Repair, Starship Weapon Repair

Now, this is just the list for the template itself, as I said before, the player won't be able to attempt these skills until he trains in them.

I'm still waiting to hear back what he plans to do with the decision about his Dexterity & Strength attributes.

Any feedback, comments, or questions about the selection of skills I'm allowing him to place his starting dice in?

[Rerun941]

One twist you may want to consider is that the droid is basically acting as a powersuit. You might want to have to make him roll Powersuit Operation on occasion (and add it to the template).

Oh, and make sure he roleplays the cultural unfamiliarity and social awkwardness to the hilt, even with his Jedi Master. A shard would not understand non-verbal communication, idioms, or slang. Heck, it may not even understand what a lie is (at least at first).

Just my two credits.
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[Raven Redstar]

Exactly. I think my player is up to the task. He's played a complete "alien" to society before. This shouldn't be too much different. As for the powersuit operations. I'm not sure if I will, because it will wind up giving him a higher attribute to work with. His Dex is going to be 2D, and Str will be 1D+1.

[wolfe]

I wouldn't use power suit operation.
You wouldn't make your characters get a walking skill just to take a step.
How about a breathing skill.
The droid physical attributes will work fine as is.

People seem to be bent on way over complicating a rather simple character concept.

The shard is just a droid with a sapient operating system.
As the WEG book says: Shard characters provide a way of including "droids that aren't really droids" in the campaign and providing "droid" characters with more free will and autonomy then ordinary droids.

[garhkal]

[cheshire]

These stats seem pretty beefy. If I were trying to add a bit more balance into his character (also so he doesn't start showing up everyone else in the group) I would make him and his droid body "share attributes," if you know what I mean. There's no need to get a stock droid. Make him take a bit of a hit to his technical for his droid body's dexterity. That's my thought.

This is one of those characters that I hear so many people talking about in their dislike for D6. That is to say, someone got a hold of a species/concept that allowed them huge dice pools and completely overwhelmed everyone else in the group.
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[Raven Redstar]

[garhkal]