Talk:Repair drone
Reason for merging
“[...]Repair drones of all makes can be found scattered across Golarion; two types of repair drones are detailed below.
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This book uses 'repair drone' as a collective term to refer to the octopod mechanic drone and repair robot (the latter of which has an almost identical stat block with the repair drone in Fires of Creation p. 24-25). - HTD (talk) 07:59, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Missing context: Repair drones are described in Fires of Creation as having three legs; repair robots are described in Construct Handbook as having four. FoC drones do not wander from their stations with other drones repairing each other as they go, CH robots do. FoC drones are described has having a single glowing eye, CH robots are described as having multiple. FoC drones speak Androffan and do not speak Common, CH robots speak Common and do not speak Androffan. -Oznogon (talk) 23:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- Are there any other differences that you can find? It isn't uncommon for individual constructs of the same type to look slightly different, and they were designed as different variants of the same thing. I've noticed that on the wiki the usual thing to do in similar cases is to put the differences in a Variants section. - HTD (talk) 23:46, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
- If you want to merge, use {{Merge}}. The variant would be longer than the repair robot article and describe something that would be different in every respect but the mechanics, which aren't canon. Either way, I don't have anything further to add to this discussion. -Oznogon (talk) 02:06, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
Reason given above: the subjects of these two articles are too similar to each other, and the usual thing to do in these cases is to put them on the same page, under a Variants section, which I imagine will look like the following:
“The humans of Androffa built their own variant of repair drones, which have three arachnid-like legs, vaguely humanoid torso, arms (with four-fingered hands), and head. Their face has a single illuminated red light that resembles an eye, and they stand about 5 feet tall. Unlike normal repair robots, they are not known to wander from their stations to congregate with other repair drones, and sometimes misinterpret actions, such as searching through debris, as an attempt to cause damage. A few of them came to Golarion via the Divinity, a spaceship that crashed on Numeria. Many continue to operate near the ship in varying states of functionality, and one was retrieved from the remains of one of the Divinity's habitat domes by Khonnir Baine, a councilor of Torch, who brought it to his workshop within the Foundry Tavern.
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