To keep it balanced, an example of how I'm thinking about this a labor droid only can be retrofitted into a labor droid chassis and not retrofitted as a combat chassis. I think thematically it would make sense as well since a tinker type mechanic is always going back and making improvements to their inventions and repurposing old tech. That leads me to think, what if a player could retrofit a droid chassis based on the type? Similar to reprogramming a droid, their is no cost for credits but it would take time. However, it's not as straight forward with a already built chassis. Obviously, I can treat them as individuals for initiative slots but that defeats the purpose squad rules or minion groups which make gameplay much smoother.Īlso to touch on reprogramming droids, I think the ability to reprogram a group of minions to all the same programming would make sense and is easy to manage since you just multiply the time it takes by the minions you are trying to reprogram. But again, the crafting or diverse nature of droids makes it extremely difficult. I would like to have something similar for droid minions. So as a GM, when I have multiple minion groups and they start to drop, I like that I can remerge the individual or small groups of minions into a new group to make them still potent for the encounter or be able to adjust the difficulty if the encounter is too easy. That is why I love FFG's scaling with minion groups which actually makes them viable for their cost. Once that minion group starts to diminish, the minions are next to useless. It wouldn't be too much of an issue if droids in minion groups didn't drop like flies but they do if there is any serious kind of threat or a weapon with blast is introduced. Also if a player had a lot of credits they would probably build a better droid chassis like specialist or advanced combat which can't be used in

How it works in our games and I think in majority of other people's games, is that droids are acquired through gameplay discovering them as prebuilt NPCs or added to the character gradually as they get enough resources to craft one a new one. When building a group of minions, even if it's just a monotask chassis at the lowest-end of 600 credits, it would still be very expensive to build them in a batch. However, in our games we keep the players hungry and they don't have a huge amount of credits or find enough scavenged parts to do so.

I like the straight-forward option to do a onetime crafting check for the group.

Edge of the empire droid types