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Is it just me, or do the Construct Armour and Construct Limb (on pages 114 and 115 of Ultimate Magic) strike anyone else as ever-so-slightly mecha and cybernetic -ish?
If a party of five adventurers all get their own colour-coded Construct Armour and form magi-mecha sentai team alpha! or something, can they merge into an even bigger suit of Construct Armour? '... and I'll form the head!'
... Just sayin' is all... ;)
Is it just me, or do the Construct Armour and Construct Limb (on pages 114 and 115 of Ultimate Magic) strike anyone else as ever-so-slightly mecha and cybernetic -ish?
If a party of five adventurers all get their own colour-coded Construct Armour and form magi-mecha sentai team alpha! or something, can they merge into an even bigger suit of Construct Armour? '... and I'll form the head!'
... Just sayin' is all... ;)
You got you're zord in my fantasy setting.
Do it as a synthesist summoner! Then you're a guy within a demon within a robot armour wielding a metal snake as weapon.
Now I'll have to play that. For Numeria!
The modification that lets you wear your contruct like armor does specify that it has to be the same size category that you are. This prevents Voltron/Power Ranger Shenanigans.. though still allows you to use it like Power Armor. Which in my opinion is actually quite cool. Keep in mind, that with the price that anything like that costs, it far outweighs it's usefulness.
Futhermore, you can cast Magic Vestment on it, so you're not even losing out on enhancement bonuses.
Nope. Even though it's a harmless spell, Magic Vestment allows Spell Resistance, and thus the construct armor is immune to it.
Also, I'm not sure if you gain all of the Construct's abilities. I'm pretty sure that you do not and you simply use them as a buffer against damage and that's about it.
If you really wanted to argue mechanics, you can alter the Constructs' AC by enhancing it's armor straight off the bat. Whether or not you gained the bonus is up to your DM though, as it specifically states it counts as a normal breastplate.
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The modification that lets you wear your contruct like armor does specify that it has to be the same size category that you are. This prevents Voltron/Power Ranger Shenanigans...
Although that's nothing more than a 'requirement' which, as we all know, in Pathfinder is just a +5 to the DC to ignore (it even re-states this under 'Building and Modifying Constructs' on page 111 of Ultimate Magic). So, gnome in Colossal sized Construct Armour? Ooh... that'll be a +5 DC... harsh... ;)
The question of what the heck Contruct Armour actually does for you is a little trickier, it seems. On the one had the last paragraph states...
'... The contruct's wearer retains his base attacks and saves. Construct armour counts as breastplate armour for purposes of determining AC, weight, Dexterity modifiers to AC, and the chance of arcane spell failure.'
... On the other hand, earlier on it states...
'... So long as the creator wears it, the construct performs no independent actions, remaining under the control of the creator, and any attacks directed at the wearer first target the construct...'
Which, to me, prompts two important questions:
Firstly - why do you need to know the AC or Dex bonus to AC for the thing if it always gets attacked first? Unless that's just there for when the Construct Armour is 'killed' yet you're still stuck in it?
Secondly - what constitutes 'the control of the creator'? If you're 'controlling' it, does that mean you can use/direct all its own abilities? You retain your 'base attacks' - does that mean 'attacks based on BAB' or 'all the attacks you can do' (meaning, in effect, that it doesn't restrict any of your attacks)... or does it mean you can't use the Construct Armour's own attacks... in which case - what's the point of donning (for example) an 'Iron Golem Suit' if you're just making the Iron Golem worse by spending more time, money, and effort on creating it, and combining it with your own abilities..?
Construct Limb, on the other hand, counts as a heavy steel shield, retains any melee attacks it has, and the creator can use any of its special abilities 'as if she were the construct'.
By 'retaining' its melee attacks, does that mean that when wearing a Construct Limb the creator gets those attacks in addition to his normal BAB, etc., based number of attacks?
It's far from clear (to me at least) how these things work, but it seems as though in the case of Construct Armour you don't add the construct's attacks to your own, but you 'control' it so can direct those attacks in place of your own (but using your own bonuses / penalties to do so); while with a Construct Limb you get the construct's attacks as well as your own (a bit like having a Dancing weapon released). How does that seem?
If the Contruct Armour does let you swing away with its own attacks, then those caster classes which can cast in Medium armour (like higher level Magus characters, or Bard Arcane Duellists, or various Cleric types) are suddenly looking at a new favourite Item Crafting Feat me'thinks... ;)
Tell me you're kidding... you realize how f'ing powerful construct armour is!? It's god's gift to clerics.
Well, they're clerics. They're doing the gods' work. That sort of work has its benefits.