I need clarification on how this would work as an armor upgrade for Android? Does this increase the hitpoints of the android? Or does it help prevent severe wounds and/or limbs from being broken off the body?
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UPGRADE SLOT
Androids have a single armor upgrade slot in
their bodies. Regardless of whether androids
are wearing physical armor, they can use this
slot to install any one armor upgrade that
could be installed into light armor.
TENSILE REINFORCEMENT
When calculating your armor’s hardness and Hit Points (see
page 409), treat it as if its item level were 5 higher.
The assumption would be that they wouldn't benefit from this upgrade at all. Androids aren't objects, so they wouldn't benefit from increased object hardness or hit points.
It's definitely something that needs to be clarified by the rules writers, because it's guaranteed there will be more armor upgrades introduced in later books.
A literal reading of the RAW would make it affect whatever armor you end up wearing in addition to the the normal mods installed in that armor.
A literal reading of the RAW would make it affect whatever armor you end up wearing in addition to the the normal mods installed in that armor.
This is the way I read it as well - there's no text in the Upgrade Slot racial ability that suggests the armor upgrade affects the android specifically.
I would rule that an android with the tensile reinforcement armor upgrade would apply the effect to its armor when it was wearing armor and the upgrade would do nothing if the android was not wearing armor.
A literal reading of the RAW would make it affect whatever armor you end up wearing in addition to the the normal mods installed in that armor.This is the way I read it as well - there's no text in the Upgrade Slot racial ability that suggests the armor upgrade affects the android specifically.
I would rule that an android with the tensile reinforcement armor upgrade would apply the effect to its armor when it was wearing armor and the upgrade would do nothing if the android was not wearing armor.
That's the way I'd rule it too.
I think we've had 3 posts about this since it's one of four possible armor upgrades at level 1 for androids and androids' description, namely as not-quite constructs that can have multiple unique souls possessing the same body, poses some interesting metaphysical questions.
Owen recently answered this question in another thread:
An android is not armor, so even if they install that armor mod, it has no effect. RAW it would increase their armor's HP and hardness, since that's what the upgrade says it does, but that's fairly silly.