That sounds interesting! I can’t really picture a droid spec tree, but having “species” for different droid could be great!
I can’t believe this hasn’t been thought of before. That’s a great idea to have several Droid species instead of just one.
Protocol, Astromech, Labor, and Assassin perhaps? You could easily adjust base Characteristics and Thresholds on those alone. Then add a granted skill for each at rank 1?
Protocol gets Presence bumped up, Astromech Intelligence, Labor gets Brawn, Assassin Agility, that sort of thing. Then Protocol gets granted Knowledge and/or Charm at rank 1, Astromech gets both Mechanics and/or Astrogation, but gets a movement quality penalty (wheels vs legs). Assassin gets at least one combat skill at rank 1. Labor perhaps gets no skills at all, but has a boost in Wound and Strain thresholds and the “Heavy Lifter” quality?
Just thoughts with the morning coffee.
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Yes, I think droid species along the lines of the old “droid degrees” would be great. In addition to different starting stats, they could start with different default gear and/or talents for the different chassis types. It would be great to get stuff to address things like repulsorlift mobility, extra arms, etc. without having to reskin gear like the Utility Arm Armor Attachment, Foot Speeder and other stuff like that.
For specs, taking a page from Scavenger’s Guide to Droids, talents that free a droid behavioral inhibitors, lifting capacity for labor droids, targeting systems for combat droids, and so on.
It would also be great to get new special rules for droids like we saw with the Astromech Actions.
Lucasfilm will relent and rehire Gina Carano, they’ll admit that the 30+ years of pre-Disney buy out is better Canon/Lore, They’ll hire a voodoo priest and resurrect Carrie Fisher, throw out the ST and start again… yeah, right!
I am no longer the target audience for movies but I did enjoy the majority of Mando - even the frog husbad/wife story line was a lovely, side quest whimsy. I’m not holding my breath for anything after the GC sh**storm tbh. I’ve seen Geode and The Vessel youtube vids… I’ll stick with the rpg… speculating on the rpg? Stuff really I’ll buy but hardly use 
Star Wars 5e Has this. Droids are separated into around 6 classes that determine things such as size, purpose, etc…
Maybe repurposing this to this system could be a good thing?
The current system is flexible enough for this. You want to play a mouse droid, go for it. You get silhouette 0 and move by wheels. That’s gonna be a lot of setbacks in the Dune desert
Did someone say… Mouse Droid ???
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One of my Star Wars RP characters has one, his name is Vermin, he’s basically a mouse Droid version of Chopper
Well…whattaya know? 
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But nothing in terms of a forum to post our thoughts on or anything {or even running games}
Well we do have this one…
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Well they specified that no forum. So I guess that’s the best we get, at least we have an answer. And this forum (and probably the 2 others) will still operate.
Hopefully the US reprints are going to come to Europe too
It would be nice if Edge also had a process for getting the game designers to answer questions about the rules.
But I’m not holding my breath for that … 
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I agree with that. But I hope just to get information about SWRPG in general from Edge.
Somebody posted an answer dated 09/05/2021 in the Dev Answered Questions topic.
Yeah, I did wonder how they got an answer in May, when I thought that all support had been closed down at the end of January.
Maybe it’s the designers/developers clearing a backlog of questions?
Checks FFG website
Huh. FFG’s Rules Question Form still lists the EotE, AoR, and FaD product lines. I wonder how long that will last, particularly if the SW designers start working for Edge. Or maybe the SW designers will end up freelancing for both Edge and FFG, designing for the former and answering questions for the latter? Unless they really love their games, I doubt that there’s much motivation to answer questions for free.
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I believe that uses the American dating style, so it’d be September.
It may be that they’ve already been moved to Edge, and FFG is just rerouting the emails to them. So you’re asking FFG, but the question is going to Edge.
@tank0625, do you have anything to add to this or clarify?
Yes. The answer was received on Sept. 6th from FFG. I sent the question on Sept. 5th from their website. Under the Customer Service tab and Rules Questions tab.
Additionally, I have since sent another question about a week ago and haven’t heard anything from them. So I’m not sure if I got lucky on the first question or they are still answering questions.
I wish I could be more helpful.
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