Which means i am making a mechanic. I am liking the idea of using a goblin. I really want to make a boxing humanoid drone like in that one movie where the main can shadow box and the drone copies his moves. I was chosing jet boost as its first mod and cleave as it's first feat. I like improved initiative but I can be convinced of useing a different feat. I was thinking of hiding the goblin in a backpack on the drones back. But i am not sure it can be pulled off.
Basic need info level one goblin mechanic. That pretends that his or her drone is the main pc. So hiding might be a good skill? With a head jack. With the overclocking mechanic trick. If that works the way i think it does.
At what level would you take a dip? And what would you take a dip of? That would be improvement.
So its good? I should run with this idea?
You're starting this character at level 1? In my experience, melee drones at low levels are paper thin, and really only exist to buy a few rounds for the PCs to do damage.
Yep level one again. Is there anything stopping a person from putting their humanoid shaped combat drone in armor?
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Besides the rule that drones cannot wear armor of any kind, per CRB page 75?
Being level one bites. there is not enough wiggle room.
Is lvl one survivable at soloing atleast until one groups up with other party members? Its going to be survival until we bump into each other.
The range of the Drone seems to be 2500 feet which is 500 squares so i guess i could have the mechanic hiding and the drone ranging out that far finding safe routes. Or something.
Next is there anything that says you can not interact with doors or keypads while using battle gloves or a pulse gauntlet?
ghostunderasheet wrote: Next is there anything that says you can not interact with doors or keypads while using battle gloves or a pulse gauntlet? because i may need them as my drones weapons of choice so we can open doors.
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There's nothing saying a character wearing battle gloves can't use their hands. That being said, for what you're trying to do, you will need to ask your GM if they'll let you treat a battle glove on a melee weapon arm as a hand, or whether they want you to spend a drone upgrade on Manipulator Arms to get the manual dexterity.
You may also run into some significant problems with the need to repair your drone, if you're trying to not let people see you, and the drone alone, instead of the drone and mechanic together will be weaker in combat than every other drone mechanic, so you'll want to be very careful about getting in a fight without backup.
Well heres my thinking if its solo survival game until i can meet up with the party then its a robotic revolt which means my drone should be safe-ish or is a zombie apocalypse in which case my robot will not have fleshy bits to eat and my pc should be hiding until he or she can find a safe route.but then again i could be dead wrong. And in that case i will just roll with my alt pc.
It seems difficult to give advice on this for a few reasons.
First, I know your GM. I mean, I don't know your GM like we get coffee and talk about how to screw the players in your game, I just mean you've talked about it enough for me to say, with some certainty, that whatever you bring to the table isn't going to go like you wanted.
Second, I think any character, any race/class mixture, would have a super difficult time in a 'solo survival game' in Starfinder, without a super healthy dose of the GM making it so you actually... you know, survive.
Pantshandshake wrote: It seems difficult to give advice on this for a few reasons.
First, I know your GM. I mean, I don't know your GM like we get coffee and talk about how to screw the players in your game, I just mean you've talked about it enough for me to say, with some certainty, that whatever you bring to the table isn't going to go like you wanted.
Second, I think any character, any race/class mixture, would have a super difficult time in a 'solo survival game' in Starfinder, without a super healthy dose of the GM making it so you actually... you know, survive.
This is a new group where one of the ex players is guna try gming. Me and him may trade the gm title back and forth. I have been wanting to toss my hat into gming and i am hopeing to have fun.
I'm legitimately happy for you, then. It's about time every time you get a chance to come in here and it isn't some homebrewed horror show that doesn't follow any of the rules that you didn't know about until you had to deal with it.
In that case, here's what I've got:
I don't think any level 1 character can do a solo survival that isn't "I hope I'm slightly faster than these monsters until I find my friends." Because you're going to shot, it being Starfinder and all.
So you basically need either something you can actually survive unless you get powerful unlucky (like, a small handful of CR 1/4 things spread around the area you have to survive in) or basically a GM ex machina thing, where you were always going to survive and it's just a good excuse for some tense storytelling.
Something one of my GMs will occasionally do is, a few rounds after initiative begins, he'll describe the uncountable horde of monsters behind us. Then he'll put a ruler down on the map. Every round, that ruler gets closer. If a character can't fight through or figure a way around the obstacle in front, that character dies when the ruler gets to him.
I am powerfully unlucky. And i was thinking that a drone mechanic would be like playing two weak character where one could survive.
That and if the drone is damaged to the point of shutting down its just broke it has to take its worth of total hit points of damage into the negative to be destroyed. And repairing your damaged drone takes less time then it takes to build it from scratch.
So a drone that is at 5 health and takes 8 damage is at -3 is damaged and shut down. A drone at 5 health and it takes 15-20 is destroyed and has to be built from the ground up. Thats a difference of 10-30 minutes or spending 24hours to having a functional drone. Really what npc is going to go out of its way to continue attacking a machine that has stopped attacking them or is just walking by not bothering them.
Correct me if i have a misunderstanding. It would be better to ironing that out now. And not after i start playing.
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One who wants to tear through it for usable or sellable components, like PCS do to any robot they wreck?
They might do that if they are robots looking for spare parts. But unintelligent zombies and ghouls are just after a quick bite to eat and robots dont have any edible parts. Ghosts don't need anything physical so they would leave it alone. Animals for the most part with leave it alone for the most part. I am not sure what he has planned. He could have us surviving a demon incursion for all i know and demons and devils would do that just for fun.
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