p, 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.)
- 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.
Alternate Racial Trait: Repairing Nanites - Replaces Nanite Surge.
- 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.
Some androids 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 Barbarians despite their immunity to fatigue. The exception to this is the Mooncursed archetype, which replaces the morale bonuses to rage with transformation into an animal (But mostly tiger, since they get pounce meaning they are clearly better than the other options by a long mile). Bards, 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.
Examples of androids in Warhammer Fantasy and AOS
Examples of androids in Warhammer 40k
In the 40k lore, mankind once had to wage war against its mechanical creations, Terminator Judgement style but on steroids. After that, humanity is so paranoid of this happening again that they totally forbade the creation of AIs. They create human-like robots though, at least in the sense that their shape resembles a humanoid being. The best exampe of this are the titans, massive war machines that praise the holy human form by resembling the shape of a human (two arms, two legs, a head. That's it. So much for holy human form). In general, though, the Imperium relies much more on cyborgs, both in the way of servitors and the Adeptus Mechanicus. Chaos could in theory create some form of automata, but they rather make chaos s-THINGS! Yes!
Anyway... Outside of Mankind, the other factions that use their own shape to make artificial beings. In general, any faction that's vaguely humanoid builds constructs that resemble human forms. The best example of an android in the traditional sense are the Tau, who use massive amounts of robots and can create AIs good enough to pass as living, thinking beings. The Necrons are a particular case, due to the living Necrontyr used as a platform for the C'Tan to turn them into the mechanical Necrons. Due to this, they are technically neither cybo