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This is something I was thinking of earlier. Would it be possible to create an animal droid? I don't want to use special custom rules or anything except RaW if possible. Let's use the Corellian Sand Panther for this example. It's on page 107 in Threats of the Galaxy. IMO, I think you apply the droid traits to it and you'd be OK, probably bump the CL up a level or two to reflect the added danger. Now, if you could do that, who's to say this droid sand anther couldn't have a hidden blaster that pops out of it's sides, similar to the Super Battle Droids with the wrist mounted blasters? Obviously these are probably not going to be the big rotating barrel blasters cannons, but probably some of the smaller rifles (with miniaturized added in). If you cna go along with all that, then what if it was a replica droid of that animal?

It seems odd to me that I haven't been able to find something like this in all of the EU...er, Legends. It seems odd that not one pirate, or crime lord, or anybody for that matter, would attempt a droid like this. Yes, it would be expensive, probably a bit more so than a regular droid of the same type. I did note there was the option to add extra legs, but I don't think that is quite the same. What say you? Is this idea a bit overpowered? It's not for a player, just something that the GM side of me thought might be a cool/neat/fun challenge for players. We've all use guard dogs, why not droid versions?

Edit I: Let me also ask, that if you would allow such a thing, would you use the droid scale chart as is? In other words, would you allow the Sand Panther to remain a medium droid, same as the Sand Panther's entry in the book, or would you demote the droid size to small? I'd be inclined to say leave it medium.

Edit II: Also, I would treat them as (I believe it was Scavanger's?) that had the owner spending actions for the droid to take an action.

Thanks. That's sort of what I was going for. I had two things come to me for this, one was fooling around with rules for n entirely different system, for two different things, which then made me wonder about these animal droids. I then got to thinking, what if a tech oriented guy - or pilot, or mechanic, or whatever - Took an astromech or pit droid, and put them into a small animal body? Like a monkey or something. It would be small, but able to help out. Likewise, it works well for just about any creature you want to make a droid of. It's just an idea, but overall seemed like something that might give some neat scenes for a game.

This thread has given me an idea; a Replica Droid with the Mechanical Martial Arts talent

Awesome.  Post when you finish.

Awesome.  I like it, although the unarmed damage should be d8, not d10.  Claw appendages deal 1d4 base damage, hand appendage does 1d3 base damage.


As for Lady Deathstrike's fingerblades, you could just fluff and say 'Awesome finger blades!', or you could look at the SD-X Stealth Battle Droid (SGtD page 138), who uses vibro-fingerblades as part of it's armament, and then you could do the Martial Arts Enhancement on the following page for more ideas.

Don't see why not.  Just figure out what chassis traits and accessories need to change, if any.

As I see thing the "extra legs" accessory only needs to consider the crunch allowing you to carry more weight.  If you ignore that, and any stability bonus that multiple legs could give, I see no reason that a droid can't physically have four legs yet be treated as if it only has two.  If you throw on "arms" that could appear as legs it becomes even easier to make that visualization work.

In a similar form I do not believe a droid actually should need multiple "legs" just to get the benefit of multiple legs.  If the cost is paid it could be possible to reinforce legs to carry more weight and add other stability measures that would produce the same effect as multiple legs.

If you want a droid that vaguely resembles an animal there shouldn't really be any issues with doing that.  I mean except for CON and a few other things a droid in Star Wars can easily be treated just like you'd treat an organic creature at least when it comes to combat.