(A) Engineering

[Kytross]

Does anyone know if there's any documentation out there for permanent modification of a weapon/ship/equipment using the (A) Engineering skill? If so, can you direct me to them via link or download or what-have-you?

I know the rules for using the regular repair skill to jury-rig equipment with the increased chances for failure. I've got a character who wants to be a droid engineer who builds his own creations and it would be nice to know if there are rules from WEG out there before I homebrew something.

[tetsuoh]

There is not. The only book that made details of the Engineering skill was Hideouts and strongholds and only went into detail on the Architectural one.

Currently our rp group is working on figuring out systems for both weapon and armor engineering, as well as modifications and material beyond standard. Afterward we plan to make a pdf guide out of it but atm there is no timeline.

Also we hadn't planned on doing Droid Engineering yet. If you decide to come up with something, may I have a look at it afterward?

[Kytross]

My quick and dirty idea was to modify the jury-rig system but replace the Repair skill with the appropriate (A) Engineering skill and remove the chance for the weapon to malfunction if the roll is successful.

Additionally the (A) Engineering dice can be added in for regular repair rolls. So if a character has 4D Technical, 6D in Blaster Repair and (A) Blaster Engineering 2D, they'd roll 8D on a normal repair roll, 6D + 2D.

Let's say to increase a blaster rifle from 5D damage to 5D+1 you'd need to make an easy repair roll of 7, plus the costs of the components. So substitute your character's skill in (A) Blaster Engineering instead. Let's say that's 2D. You roll an 8. The blaster rifle is now at 5D+1 damage.

How does that sound?

[Raven Redstar]

[tetsuoh]

yeah in our system we use engineering for designing new weapons or assembling ones from mere parts. Our modification rules use the repair skill, though that is an interesting idea to allow engineering to be added to repair.

engineering is for things like - drawing out plans to design a blaster that uses a different fuel source, our that starts at its highest possible dmg, or that is so balanced that it grants attack bonuses.

Repair can be used to convert weapons to the same as above but usually adds penalties, where as engineered designs won't but will take far longer and require the assembly of an entirely new weapon.

[Hellcat]

The only documentation for modding weapons I've seen is in the 2nd edition R&E listed right before the TECH skills. Galaxy Guide 6 Tramp Freighters has modding rules for ships. The only place I've seen rules for (A) Engineering has been in Hideouts and Strongholds
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[garhkal]

Yup. Regular mods would be limited to the +1d+2 max. BUT with just engineering, i could see trying to make a flat NEW weapon doing more.. but the diff would be based on how much more than the baseline it is.
EG taking a blaster pistol (4d damage is standard) to a Thunderer (6d+2) would be at least a very difficult (A) engineering roll.

Each additonal thing beyond that, like say having a blaster 'ranged for a skilled marksman, similar to how the blaster pistols made by the 'black sands of socorro (sp)' group Calli-merced does (someone less than 6d in blaster suffers a 1d penalty, someone with 6d or more gains a 1d bonus) would say add a 10 to the target number rolled.


I also use Engineering for actual Switching out items on a ship with no complication possibilities. So taking your X2 hyperdrive out to make room for that new (stolen) X1/2 drive you acquired, would normally be around a diff repair roll, but flubbing it (1 on the wild) would give you some sort of complications when using it. If you just went with engineering vice repair, you don't have to worry about that (unless you roll NOTHING but 1s on your dice... then the fates have decreed you suck!
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[Kytross]

Thank you all for the responses. I'll be using different suggestions and trying them out over the course of the campaign.

My player wants to be an exotic alien droid engineer but doesn't want to be a Sluissi or Verpine or even a Jawa. We'll see what happens.

[garhkal]

Why not have him go squib.
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[Kytross]

Squib don't get any technical bonuses.

I was presenting him with races that get huge bonuses to technical, as that would be the only way for him to really get what he wants from a starting character.

It's not too often I can give a player all the ridiculous things they ask for and still follow the rules. Now I can and the player doesn't want any of the super options I'm giving him.

[Raven Redstar]

What about an Anomid, they get an extra 6D to play with in Technical skills. Even though their attribute maxes at 4D.

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[Lancil]

lol that is friggin awsome. I want that pic. where can i get it?

[tetsuoh]

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*pats Lancil* Its okay, we all have those moments.

[Hellcat]