I'm interested in hearing how people play their androids and constructs in regards to explaining why skill checks, attack rolls, and things of that sort fail. Since the characters are essentially computers, is it chalked up to an algorithm they're still testing and debugging? Is their firmware faulty or glitchy? Were they designed with failure chance to better blend into biological societies?
Our own brains are computers too. They run on electricity but biological. How do we fail a skill check? The path ways in the brain aren't as established as we though and failure is method of learning. Would this not be the same with android that can learn and adjust to situation. Failure would be learning experience and next level another rank in that skill might be applied.
Who ever said machines are perfect? The fact that we still have jobs and that machines aren't doing them indicates they are not.
No one said such about our modern machines. And indeed the failures in these hypothetical artificially intelligent player characters do happen, and in the beginning of an adventure I'd assume quiet regularly. But what is the flavor you'd put to the character? How would you role play it?
I really like idea of a "destined to be perfect" organisim that inherited the experiences of a millennia of relatives and is still suffering growing pains. Dune had the genetic memory as the pinnacle of enlightenment, could it be the opposite and actually be a distraction?