How many limbs can an SRO have?

[BurnJ]

"SROs do not have a unified appearance, and many are at best vaguely humanoid in shape, while others have shapes designed purely to assist in their primary functions."

Is there a universal rule somewhere where it states all races have 2 functional legs and 2 arms unless the race specifies otherwise? Android has specific races the Android could resemble, therefore letting you know your leg and arm count.

Is this 100% up to the GM? What's a reasonable amount to ask my GM for? Obliviously multiple armed races have a augmentation and item wielding advantage.

[Xenocrat]

There's no rule I can think of, but you should operate on the standard assumption of two. Every variation from two is called out as a special racial trait. SROs have no such racial trait, so.

If you want more get the augmentation for it at higher levels or go polymorph spell and add the racial traits for extra arms for a while. Or polymorphic envoy to have the option permanently.

[Claxon]

Agreed. Extra limbs aren't a huge benefit in SF like they were in PF1, but still pretty useful.

Any other race extra limbs are specifically called out where beneficial.

I would assume an SRO only has two arm like devices for "free".

[Dracomicron]

They can have as many as they want, but all but two are useless, and they only have two arm and hand slots for augmentations.

Flavor is flavor; mechanics is mechanics.

[Corsair17]

What about an Android using the ability to look like a Kasatha or even a Skittermander?

[Ventnor]

Corsair17 wrote:

What about an Android using the ability to look like a Kasatha or even a Skittermander?

An android with the Xenometric Android alternate racial trait in the Character Operations Manual can indeed have 4 arms, if they choose the Kasatha option. There doesn't appear to be a skittermander option, though.

[Third Strongest Mole]

There is a general rule, though it took until alien archive 2 for it to be written, it seems.

P. 4 of Alien archive 2 under "Racial Traits and Alien PCs"

"While there is a preponderance of nonhumanoid aliens with strange morphology, all playable alien races are considered to have two hands for the purposes of holding or wielding weapons and other equipment (unless otherwise noted)."