Ok so I have a 9th lvl cleric who just picked up the craft construct feat with the aim of building my own medium construct with the hopes of upgrading it to construct armor.
Now I want to use the rules in ultimate Magic in order to build my own construct to serve as a shield guardian with the hopes of modifying it with both of the bio-construct modifications as well as Construct armor.
(A challenging undertaking, i know.)
The problem i'm running into is that the rules are very vague and mention nothing as to what the Caster Level a new construct is suppose to be and mentions nothing as to how CR equates to CL.
Yes I can make a construct and have all i need to "loosely" price it out but I have no idea if I have the spells required or the caster level the golem will have.
The abilities added will be Golem immunity to magic, Shield Guardian, and the ability to be healed by Lightning Bolt. (We have a lightning wizard in the party.)
Now how the heck do i figure out what spells are required for immunity to magic, and healed by lightning? and how do i determine if I meet the caster level and up to what CR i can price it at?
can you only create a golem up to a CR of equal to your level?
Obviously I'm in over my head but think these things need to get clarified and think it still will be worth while.
any help would be appreciated.
The shield guardian is a variant that it "tacked on" to an existing golem.
From the sounds of it, it sounds like you want a Shield Guardian variant of the Flesh Golem. In which case, I'd go with the requirements of those entries: bull's strength, limited wish, animate dead, geas/quest, discern location and either shield or shield other... oh, and a heal or craft check of DC 13 to stitch him together, heh.
Bioconstruct modification makes sense with this one, considering the source, however the Construct Armor just gives whole new meanings to disgusting. Maybe that's your bag though.. a necromancer getting all silence of the lambs here.
Since I'm guessing you are looking more at "Iron Man" then "Serial Killer", what you might want to do is start with the basics: What are you making this golem out of. Is it metal? Stone? Clockwork? Once you've got that figured out, you can look at existing things to hammer out the creation methodology (forging metal, stitching corpses, engineering steampunk), and then look at weaknesses and benefits.
The nice thing is that the Shield Guardian seems to just slap onto whatever you are making, so that part at least is easy enough to handle.