
TreeMouse |
Do drones need to fulfill the prerequisites required for feats in its feat list? Or, is it the case that my mechanic's drones can simply choose from any of these feats in the available list?
I want to have a drone that can lay down suppressive fire with small arms that it is not proficient in. Or a drone that has shot on the run but is not proficient with small arms because I want to take a camera mod at first level.

Wikrin |

Wikrin wrote:You know they get proficiency in either small arms or basic melee weapons for free at first level, right? I don't think they can ignore prerequisites, but hell if I know.Only if you choose combat drone I believe and I'm going with a stealth drone.
Nope. Combat drone gets the Weapon Proficiency mod (for Longarms or Advanced Melee Weapons) for free, but they all get the choice between small arms and basic melee weapons.
Your drone is proficient in your choice of small arms or basic
melee weapons, and it gains specialization in that weapon type
once you reach 3rd level.
Second paragraph, under Drones.

TreeMouse |
TreeMouse wrote:Wikrin wrote:You know they get proficiency in either small arms or basic melee weapons for free at first level, right? I don't think they can ignore prerequisites, but hell if I know.Only if you choose combat drone I believe and I'm going with a stealth drone.Nope. Combat drone gets the Weapon Proficiency mod (for Longarms or Advanced Melee Weapons) for free, but they all get the choice between small arms and basic melee weapons.
Quote:Second paragraph, under Drones.Your drone is proficient in your choice of small arms or basic
melee weapons, and it gains specialization in that weapon type
once you reach 3rd level.
Awesome! Thank you. I wish they just put it as part of the chasis' table across the models so we wouldn't have to hunt elsewhere in the text

HammerJack |
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Drone Base Statistics
Your drone’s abilities are determined by your mechanic level (or the level you assign to it through your control net ability) and the mods you select for your drone. Table 4–3 on page 76 determines many of the base statistics for your drone. These base statistics modify the starting statistics determined by the drone’s chassis. The terms used in Table 4–3 are as follows.
Class Level: This is equal to your mechanic level. If you have the control net class feature and assign fewer levels to your drone than you have, the drone’s base statistics are determined by the level you assign to it.
Hit Points: This is the drone’s maximum number of Hit Points. For the purposes of spells and other effects that rely on Hit Dice or level, your drone’s equivalent Hit Dice or level is equal to your mechanic level (or the level you have assigned to it with the control net class feature). Drones do not have Stamina Points.
That reads to me like you would treat the assigned level as the drone’s character level for both prereq (from the class level part) and effects (from the hit points part).