Drone transformer as personal mount, AKA Stupid Player Tricks, part 1 Options

[Modular Man]

I did write unaugmented body value (that is without bio/cyber/magic) and it will be a stretch to get BOD 11 gnome with just starting attribute + qualities.

Meh, ghoul, count him as a fat dwarf then and buy a bigger drone to sit in.

Giants on the other hand...

Okay. Still, without the genware and the ghoul, you can still get up to a natural attribute of 9 with Surge and Exceptional Attribute. Yes, this is more of a mathematical example than an actual character.
My point being: Dwarfes (and Gnomes, for that matter) are significantly shorter than humans or elves and still get a bonus to Body.
I'm okay with most suggestions here, I just wanted to point out that this seems a bit off:

0,5 square meter of space taken per 1 point of BOD? Ok, BOD 10 troll would take up 5 square meters of space, well, perhaps if he stands up and spins around with his arms flailing...

Or maybe I just didn't get your point.

We better get back to the topic (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Yerameyahu]

That's still not great, Dakka Dakka. You could be a big fat guy, Bod 1/Str 1. I'm saying that Body (and anything else) are *bad* choices for size/weight. Possibly worse than nothing. :/

[The Jopp]

That's still not great, Dakka Dakka. You could be a big fat guy, Bod 1/Str 1. I'm saying that Body (and anything else) are *bad* choices for size/weight. Possibly worse than nothing. :/

In that case i'd make it simple:

Small Drone= Normal Sized Metahuman
Medium Drone= Orc Metatypes
Large Drones= Troll sized

An orc in a small drone would have a -20% to top speed and acceleration
A troll in a small drone would have a -40% to top speed and acceleration

Minimum size would be small drone since the other are far to tiny.

For flying drones I say up everything one size (no, drones cannot carry trolls, not even heavy drones)
So minimum flying size to carry a person would be a medium drone

What do you think?

[Yerameyahu]

Agreed: best to just go with very generalized body size categories. Sounds like a good rule of thumb to me, though I might honestly bump all the sizes *down* (e.g., orc=large drone).

[The Jopp]

Agreed: best to just go with very generalized body size categories. Sounds like a good rule of thumb to me, though I might honestly bump all the sizes *down* (e.g., orc=large drone).

Well, i used the small drone as an example since there is already a small drone wheelchair so the size seemed apt.

[VykosDarkSoul]

What gets me about the whole mess is this. Under Bone Density Augment and Bone Laceing they both state that it ups the weight, but doesnt give a clear factor...so, yeah, your Ares step Van is fine for carrying a few trolls, but what happens when one of those trolls has Bone Density 4? a 300kg troll suddenly is a bit heavier than that, no?

[Modular Man]

Do you want to replace the list given in "Arsenal", p. 102?
This list, of course, doesn't account for the Transys Steed, the small drone wheelchair. It would have been easier to add in a "special machinery" modification to enable it to carry a metahuman.

[Yerameyahu]

Yeah, The Jopp, but I was going with the idea that such a drone has the secret mod 'Passenger Capacity' and/or 'Cargo Capacity' (I mentioned it earlier, but quietly). So, I'd say that small wheelchair has an effective +1 Size as part of its design?