Created Thursday 25 July 2013

A robot’s core programming and memories are contained within its central processor– its “brain.” The brain’s drive to survive is measured by the force of its personality, as represented by the robot’s Charisma. Whenever a robot is destroyed (reduced to 0 or fewer hit points), some brain degradation occurs. Each time its body is destroyed, the robot brain permanently loses 1 point of Charisma. The brain ceases to function and the robot “dies” if its Charisma drops to 0. As long as the robot has 1 point of Charisma left after its body is destroyed, its brain can be removed and transplanted into another robot body of the same size and frame. Removing and transplanting a robot brain takes ten minutes of work with an electronic tool kit and requires a successful Repair (Skill) check. The DC of the Repair check depends on the robot’s frame, and not having a tool kit imposes a –4 penalty on the check.

Robot Frame Repair DC Biodroid 30 Bioreplica 40

A robot that gains a new body retains all of the memories, skills (or skill software), and feats (or feat software) of its previous “life.” It also retains any class levels and mental ability upgrades, but loses any physical upgrades, armor, sensors, accessories or other improve-ments and additions to the destroyed body.

ROBOT RESURRECTION As described in Chapter 1, a robot’s core programming and memories are contained within its central processor– its “brain.” If a robot’s body is reduced to 0 hit points it is destroyed, but the central processor may be transplanted into a new body of the same size and frame. The robot’s drive to survive is meas-ured by its Charisma, which is reduced by 1 whenever the robot’s body is destroyed. As long as the core processor still has 1 point of Charisma left after being destroyed, it may be removed and put into a new body. This process takes 10 minutes of work, a mechan-ical toolkit, and a successful Repair check. Without a mechanical toolkit, the check takes a –4 penalty. The DC of the Repair check varies based on the robot’s frame: Robot Frame Repair DC Armature or Biomorph 20 Biodroid or Mechanoid 30 Bioreplica 40 A robot that gains a new body retains all of the memories, skills (or skill software), and feats (or feat software) of its previous “life.” It also retains any class levels and mental abil-ity upgrades, but loses any physical up-grades, armor, sensors, accessories or other improvements and additions to the de-stroyed body.