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I was making my combat drone and had a few questions on its construction and ability to use certain weapons.
The first (and arguably more important) question is based on the following information provided in the drone chassis section:
"Initial Mods reductive plating, weapon mount or melee weapon arm (up to 2 in any combination), weapon proficiency
Does this mean I can create him at level 1 with one weapon mount and one melee weapon arm?
The second question (two parts) if the above is true, is based on the following passage:
"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."
By default this is true for any drone. Now as I am new to Starfinder (and pathfinder) i'm not fully sure on the weapon proficiency importance.
Can my drone have a ranged weapon in one arm using the default small arms proficiency and then a melee weapon using the weapon proficiency mod? Or does he get basic melee proficiency like all characters?Final question:
Can my drone use advanced weapon proficiency from the weapon proficiency mod and then small arms proficiency from the drone proficiency thing in the second question? Or would he have to take basic melee as the either/or proficiency option and then advanced melee proficiency from the mod?
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#1 yes, he could hold both a hand gun and a one handed melee weapon without having to buy additional mounts.
#2 he doesn't automatically get any proficiency not explicitly stated. So he either comes with small arms or basic melee, he has to take the mod for the other if you want to get it.
#3 you have to meet the prerequisites, so to get advanced melee you need basic melee. You could take basic melee, use the built in extra proficiency to get advanced melee, and then take the proficiency mod a second time to get small arms. It's a pile of mods I know, I'm making a heavy weapon drone and I have to take longarm proficiency even though I won't use them to get heavy weapons.
#4 yes, you have to meet any requirements.
Good luck with the drone, I like them though there are some rough edges. You should get the manipulator arms when you can so you can hold and steal the weapons you disarm from people. :)
#2 in the drone description it says that they are proficient with your choice or small arms or basic melee page 74, and the combat drone includes an extra mod for weapon proficiency. So yes you can have both right off the bat. For the mod you can get I would sugest impruving the armor to a +2
Taclashes are Advanced Melee Weapons, so spending a mod on Advanced Melee Weapon proficiency would also be a good idea.