Wardroid 6 (18)

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When technologically advanced military forces need heavy support, they sometimes bring in wardroids. These fearsome robots, standing about 8 feet (2.5 m) tall, are ruthless even by trooper standards and are known to kill innocent bystanders as often as they kill foes. It is said that when wardroids are unleashed, wise troopers fall back and take cover.

In a fantasy setting, a wardroid might be an inorganic creature similar to an animate statue or golem, or an improved kind of skeleton or zombie.

Motive: Maintain control, crush, kill, destroy

Environment: Anywhere

Health: 30

Damage Inflicted: Major wound

Armor: 3

Movement: Short; some models can fly a short distance each round

Modifications: Attacks as level 7

Combat: A wardroid attacks with a cluster of laser weapons, affecting three adjacent foes within short range and inflicting a major wound.

A wardroid regains 1 health each round.

Each wardroid has one additional capability. Depending on the needs of whoever deploys them, a group of wardroids may have the same ability or different, complementary abilities. Using this ability is an action. Example wardroid abilities include:

• Bullet Mitigator: All bullets (and similar non-explosive projectiles) fired within short range are telekinetically redirected upward, hindering such attacks by three steps.
• Corrosive Spray: Creatures within immediate range take a moderate wound on a failed defense roll.
• Disruption Field: Machines, technological devices, and machine creatures in immediate range fail or are stunned for one round if they are lower level than the wardroid. A PC can protect one device from this with a Might or Intellect defense roll.
• Grenade Launcher: Long-distance explosive fills an immediate area with shrapnel, inflicting a moderate wound.
• Nonlethal Chemical Agent: Living creatures within immediate range take a minor wound and are blinded on a failed defense roll. Ending the blindness requires a $non-rest recovery$.
• Poison Gas: Living creatures within immediate range take a moderate wound on a failed defense roll.
• Stun Beam: One living creature within short range loses their next turn if they fail an Intellect defense roll.
• Tankbuster: Long-range projectile inflicts a moderate wound (ignores physical armor, but not force fields, magic, or other unusual defenses).
• Telekinesis Beam: Moves a human-sized target within long range horizontally up to a long distance on a failed Might defense roll. If the target strikes a sturdy barrier as part of this movement, they take a moderate wound.
• Ultrasound Burst: Living creatures within long range take a minor wound on a failed Might defense roll and are hindered until they use a non-rest recovery.

Interaction: An unauthorized creature trying to communicate with a wardroid is ignored at best and attacked at worst.

Use: Wardroids are often deployed in groups of two or three to guard a vault or the entrance to a spacecraft, or to track down intruders aboard a space station or military base.

Loot: A skilled mechanic can sometimes salvage one or two manifest cyphers from the remains of a destroyed wardroid.

GM Intrusion: The wardroid briefly goes berserk, making three hindered attacks as its action, with at least one against the character.

Group GM intrusion: The defeated wardroid detonates, inflicting a major wound on all creatures within immediate range.