Droids

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## Background

Droids are relatively new to the CDSM, one of the first droids ever created and allowed to interact solo in the world is S-ASOM-1. If you wish to play a droid, this could be possible but please consult with your DM first. Droids are as designed in SW5e, if there is anything which seems incorrect, please refer to the link which should take you to the relevant page for the "live" information.

## Droid Traits

* **Age*:*** Droids don’t age, though they require maintenance to retain functionality.
* **Alignment*:*** Droids tend toward no particular alignment. The best and worst are found among them.
* **Type:** Your creature type is droid.
* **Armor Integration:** You cannot wear armor, but you can have the armor professionally integrated into your chassis over the course of a long rest. This work must be done by someone proficient with astrotech’s implements. You must be proficient in armor in order to have it integrated.
* **Droid Resistances:** You are resistant to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage, and are immune to poison and disease.
* **Droid Systems:** You do not need to eat, drink, or breathe. Additionally, you no longer require a tech focus to cast tech powers.
* **Droid Vulnerabilities:** You are vulnerable to ion damage. Additionally, you have disadvantage on saving throws against effects that would deal ion or lightning damage.
* **Force-Insensitive:** While droids can be manipulated by many force powers, they can not sense the Force. You can not use force powers or take levels in forcecasting classes.
* **Maintenance Mode:** Rather than sleep, you must spend 3 hours performing routine maintenance during a long rest to gain its benefits, during which you have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks. Additionally, if your long rest would be interrupted, you only need to complete the long rest instead of restarting it.
* **Rapid Reconstruction:** You are built with internal repair mechanisms. As a bonus action, you can choose to spend one of your Hit Dice to recover hit points.

## Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies (referred to as classes) of droids:

### Class I

Class I droids are programmed for the mathematical, medical, or physical sciences. Subcategories of the first degree are medical droids, biological science droids, physical science droids, and mathematics droids. Medical droids, also known as meddroids, med droids, medical units or surgical droids are a type of droid designed to heal living beings, and are the most commonly found Class I droids.

* **Ability Score Increase:** Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Wisdom or Charisma score increases by 1.
* **Size*:*** Class I droids stand between 5 and 6 feet tall and weigh about 170 lbs. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
* **Spee:***.* Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
* **Knowledge Protocol*:*** You have proficiency in two Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma skills of your choice.
* **Languages:** You can speak, read, and write Basic and one language of your choice. You can understand spoken and written Binary, but you can not speak it.

### Class II

Class II droids are programmed for engineering and other technical sciences. They differ from class one droids because they apply the science to real-life situations. Class II droids are rarely equipped with Basic vocabulators, instead communicating through Binary. There are five subcategories of class II droids. Astromech, exploration, environmental, engineering, and maintenance droids are all class II droids.

* **Ability Score Increase:** Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Dexterity or Wisdom score increases by 1.
* **Size*:*** Class II droids stand 2 to 4 feet tall and weigh about 70 lbs. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Small..
* **Speed*:*** Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
* **Skill Protocol*:*** You have proficiency in two skills of your choice.
* **Undersized*:*** Your small stature makes it hard for you to wield bigger weapons. You can’t use heavy shields. Additionally, you can’t use martial weapons with the two-handed property unless it also has the light property, and if a martial weapon has the versatile property, you can only wield it in two hands.
* **Languages*:*** You can speak, read, and write Binary. You can understand spoken and written Basic and one language of your choice, but you can not speak them.

### Class III

Class III droids are programmed to interact with humanoids. They are said to be the most advanced droids ever invented. Protocol, servant, tutor, and child care droids are all class III droids. They are usually equipped with protocol chips which give them the cognitive functionality to engage socially.

* **Ability Score Increase*:*** Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Intelligence or Wisdom score increases by 1.
* **Size*:*** Class III droids stand around the height of humans and weigh about 150 lbs. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
* **Speed*:*** Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
* **Knowledge Protocol*:*** You have proficiency in the Lore skill.
* **Languages*:*** You can speak, read, and write all registered languages.

### Class IV

Class IV droids are programmed for military and security purposes. Such droids tend to perform tasks of violence or combat might be expected. Almost all class IV droids carry weapons. Armed combat droids are among the first droids ever created. Security, gladiator, battle, and assassin droids are all class IV droids.

* **Ability Score Increase:** Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength or Dexterity score increases by 1.
* **Size*:*** Class IV droids typically stand between 5 and 7 feet and weigh about 150 lbs. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
* **Speed*:*** Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
* **Martial Protocol*:*** You have proficiency with light and medium armor as well as two simple or martial blasters or vibroweapons of your choice.
* **Languages*:*** You can speak, read, and write Basic and one language of your choice. You can understand spoken and written Binary, but you can not speak it.

### Class V

Class V droids are programmed for menial and low-skill tasks. Such droids tend to perform basic tasks such as construction, lifting, maintenance, mining, sanitation, and transportation. Labor droids are fifth-degree droids.

* **Ability Score Increase:** Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Dexterity or Constitution score increases by 1.
* **Size*:*** Class V droids typically stand between 5 and 7 feet and weigh around 260 lbs. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
* **Speed*:*** Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
* **Manual Laborer*:*** You have proficiency in Athletics and one set of artisan’s implements of your choice.
* **Powerful Build*:*** Your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift doubles. If it would already double, it instead triples.
* **Languages:** You can speak, read, and write Binary. You can understand spoken and written Basic and one language of your choice, but you can not speak it.