Damage Chart for Droids

[CRMcNeill]

I've been meaning to do this for some time, but never quite got around to it. However, someone over on the FB group asked about it, and I had some free time, so here it is:

Damage Chart for Droids:
0-3 = Ionized / System Shock (-1D to All Skill and Attribute rolls for the remainder of the Round and all of the next Round. No permanent damage).
4-8 = Lightly Damaged (Can take no action for the rest of the round, -1D to all Skill and Attribute rolls until repaired. A Lightly Damaged Droid that takes damage again becomes Heavily Damaged.)
9-12 = Heavily Damaged (Can take no action for the rest of the round, -2D to all Skill and Attribute rolls until repaired. A Heavily Damaged Droid that takes damage again is Critically Damaged.)
13-15 = Critically Damaged (Can perform no actions until repaired. A Critically Damaged Droid that takes damage again is Destroyed.)
16+ = Destroyed (Some critical component of the droid has been irreparably damaged. Even if enough of the droid remains that it can be rebuilt with replacement parts, it will begin as a new character, having lost whatever individual essence it might have acquired over the course of its existence.)

The way I figure, a Critically Damaged Droid can literally be blown to pieces (see Threepio in ESB), but still not have suffered sufficient damage to be rendered unrepairable, as the damage inflicted didn't damage his CPU or whatever critical software components compromise "him".
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[cheshire]

This seems pretty straight forward and makes sense to me.
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[Whill]

[CRMcNeill]

[Bren]

[CRMcNeill]

I tried to stick as close to the standard Damage Chart as possible, and that's effectively the same result as Mortally Wounded for a PC (as in, if you're mortally wounded and you take damage again, it kills you). At that point, a droid may potentially be rebuilt by installing undamaged components and a new CPU, but at that point, any personality the droid may have developed is gone / reset to factory settings. Think of it less as the same droid being repaired and more of a different droid receiving donor parts.
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[Bren]

OK I think I get it now.

You are using the same table and effects for droids as for living characters, but swapping words like "damaged" for words like "wounded."

You are saying that critical damage = (or could equal) blown to pieces, but the CPU is still intact and that is what happened to 3P0. And killed = CPU is significantly damaged or destroyed and that that didn't happen to either of the two droids at anytime.*


* I suppose one could suggest (as an alternative to an intentional memory wipe) that 3P0 took CPU damage sometime before ANH and that is why he seems to have forgotten the name Skywalker.

[CRMcNeill]

Essentially, yes. The threshold for death is different when it comes to droids; there is at least one circumstance in the EU where a droid survived having his CPU destroyed (Bollux, in Han Solo at Stars' End), and was subsequently uploaded into a completely new body.
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[Whill]

[Bren]

[CRMcNeill]

That would depend greatly on how complex a droid AI is, and whether or not even the most subtle variations in coding that are the roots for a unique personality might remain in place even after a memory wipe. Nature vs. nurture might just have its own equivalent in droids.

For that matter, what if “memory erase” isn’t a “hard reset” but more of an electronic equivalent of permanent amnesia, with the droid retaining all of its acquired skill knowledge, but losing any knowledge of personal experiences that might have contributed to those skills. Considering most droids likely begin their conscious existence with a purpose, skills, and required equipment pre-installed, the droid wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between that and a fresh memory wipe.

Also, it’s possible a droid’s personality might be copied prior to a mission and left in a safe place so that it could be uploaded to a new body in the event of the old one’s destruction. The stumbling block there would be whether or not a droid’s personality is too complex to simply be copied onto a hard drive somewhere, but given the fact that even data storage formats have an aspect of AI built into them (Holistic Data Transfers, essentially virtual droids with super-specific Knowledge skill sets), data storage hardware in the SWU would likely be well up to the task.
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"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

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[Whill]

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