Voidrunner Drones

From tiny friendly orbs to autonomous death machines, drones are simple mechanized creatures that dutifully carry out their digital orders. They may be shiny and new fresh from the package, or they may be sentinel drones patrolling long abandoned facilities on forgotten worlds, collecting data for creators that no longer exist.

Most drones are linked to an accompanying device, typically a datapad or a wrist mounted data screen, that acts as the drone’s control device that requires the use of a free hand to operate. A creature wielding a drone’s control device can use a bonus action to command the drone to perform a simple action such as “attack”, “scout and report back”, or other easily processed tasks which it does to the best of its ability on its next turn in initiative which is always immediately after its controller’s initiative.

If a drone’s control device is destroyed (AC 14, 10 hit points) or the signal between a drone and its control device is jammed the drone becomes confused as per its malfunction feature.

Equipment, such as armor and drone ports, and some class features may alter the nature of a drone’s control, such as allowing for actionless verbal commands or other benefits or alterations to drone controlling. The statistics for all drones are detailed in Chapter 9: Alien Bestiary.