Editing Android (section)

===Pathfinder===
[[File:Android PotS.png|thumb|200px|Android doctors recommend drinking eight glasses of nanites a day.]]
[[Pathfinder]], being more willing to embrace the more gonzo and [[Science Fantasy]] aspects of old-school D&D, has a subsetting called Numeria, which is basically a glorious homage to the aforementioned module with a dash of [[Conan the Barbarian]]: it's a region of [[Golarion]] where a hyper-advanced spaceship crashed centuries ago. As such, the region is crawling with robots of various shapes and sizes, whilst androids - artificial humanoids who're basically super-realistic [[warforged]] in practice - are a player race that emerged from that region that are usually hunted by the Technic League, a clan of techno-slavers who seek to use the ancient tech for their own evil ends. Androids don't sleep, but they do eat, drink, breath and excrete: "Though they have secondary sexual characteristics and can engage in and enjoy intercourse, androids have no functional reproductive organs and cannot procreate." (Starfinder, for some reason, requires they sleep but does not require them to breathe, even though they're supposed to be the same species.) 

Instead of sex, Androids "reproduce" by a process they call "Renewal". They go into a special Rejuvenation pod that restores their bodies to a showroom-ready condition. During this, their soul leaves the body, effectively dying and journeying to the Boneyard with all the other souls, while a new soul will come to inhabit the freshly-overhauled body to begin a new life. This also means that, as long as they get regular maintenance (and don't get killed), an Android can live as long as they want to. 

::'''Ability Scores:''' +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, -2 Charisma
::'''Size:''' Medium
::'''Base Speed:''' 30 feet
::'''Alert:''' +2 racial bonus to Perception checks.
::'''Emotionless:''' -4 racial penalty to Sense Motive checks. Can never gain moral bonuses. Immune to fear and emotion-based effects.
::'''Exceptional Senses:''' Darkvision 60 feet, Low-Light Vision.
::'''Constructed:''' Androids count as both Humanoids and Constructs for effects that target creature type. +4 racial bonus on saves against mind-affecting effects, paralysis, poison and stun. Immune to fatigue, exhaustion, disease and sleep.
::'''Nanite Surge:''' 1/day, as an immediate action, an android can trigger its nanites before making a D20 roll to gain a (3 + character level) bonus. When this ability is used, the android's circuitry-tattoos glow, causing them to give off light equivalent to a torch for 1 round.(Starfinder Androids lose this ability, but instead gain a free upgrade slot built into their bodies that can use any suitable armor upgrade. IOW, they lose the Tron lines, but can get a built-in forcefield or jet pack, for example)

Alternate Racial Trait: 
::'''Repairing Nanites:''' The first time each day that an android with this trait has taken an amount of damage greater than or equal to twice their Hit Dice, their nanites activate. They give off light equivalent to a torch for 1 round and heal a number of hit points equal to twice their hit dice. Replaces Nanite Surge.

Some androids [[Loli|look like children but have adult minds (and thus presumably still "enjoy intercourse")]]. They have small size and immortality but are otherwise identical (including 30 foot move speed and lack of strength penalty).

Since Androids can't benefit from morale bonuses, and rage is based on morale bonuses, Androids make shitty [[Barbarian]]s despite their immunity to fatigue. The exception to this is the Mooncursed archetype, which replaces the morale bonuses to rage with [[Transformers#Beast_Wars|transformation into an animal]] (But mostly tiger, since they get pounce meaning they are clearly better than the other options by a long mile). [[Bard]]s, oddly enough, don't give out many morale bonuses, only the bonus against charm and fear, the late gained Inspire Heroics and some (good) spells are morale bonuses. This means they make pretty good bards if you use the Chronicler of Worlds (which replaces Inspire Heroics with a non-morale bonus effect) archetype to make an intelligence based Bard. Otherwise they make good [[Wizard]], [[Magus]] and [[Witch]] as well as most skill monkey classes, especially so for child androids as they get all the benefits of small size with few of the drawbacks, and Nanite Surge can provide a massive boost to rolls again Spell Resistance.

====[[Pathfinder Second Edition]]====
The Androids did return again for the second edition of Pathfinder as part of the "Lost Omens Ancestry Guide", being one of the more novel races to have been made playable. That said, the transition has not been very kind, as they've lost all their immunities, making them feel less like machines in the shape of humanoids and more like humanoids with synthetic skin. Even with the various feats available, all you'll get is the ability to critically succeed certain saves if you pass them by any degree rather than just not bothering with them.

::'''HP:''' 8
::'''Ability Scores:''' +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, +2 to any other ability score, -2 Charisma
::'''Size:''' Medium
::'''Base Speed:''' 25 feet
::'''Senses:''' Low-Light Vision
::'''Constructed:''' Your synthetic body resists ailments better than those of purely biological organisms. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against diseases, poisons, and radiation.
::'''Emotionally Unaware:''' You find it difficult to understand and express complex emotions. You take a –1 circumstance penalty to Diplomacy and Performance checks, and on Perception checks to Sense Motive.

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*'''Artisan:''' You were originally built to create art and maintain machinery. You are proficient in Crafting and the Specialty Crafting skill feat for one specialty.
*'''Impersonator:''' You were created to more easily blend into human society. You are proficient in Deception and can pass off as a human without needing a disguise kit, plus an additional +4 bonus in order to impersonate being human. None of this applies when trying to impersonate someone else, though.
*'''Laborer:''' You are capable of performing hard labor for extended periods of time. You are proficient in Athletics and gain the Hefty Hauler skill feat.
*'''Polyglot:''' You are a translator, already programmed with knowledge of many languages. You know two additional languages out of the ones you can potentially know, and you can learn three extra languages when taking the Multilingual feat.
*'''Warrior:''' You were originally built to be a soldier and are skilled in many forms of combat. You are proficient in all simple and martial weapons.
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