I have been asking the same questions... my gm lets me use my cannon holems cannon and his strength and dex. But I have not seen anything official
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to be honest, it sounds like a mundane version of the summoner's synthesist archetype ability:
A synthesist summons the essence of a powerful outsider to meld with his own being. The synthesist wears the eidolon like translucent, living armor. The eidolon mimics all of the synthesist’s movements, and the synthesist perceives through the eidolon’s senses and speaks through its voice, as the two are now one creature.
While fused with his eidolon, the synthesist uses the eidolon’s physical ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution), but retains his own mental ability scores (Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma). The synthesist gains the eidolon’s hit points as temporary hit points. When these hit points reach 0, the eidolon is killed and sent back to its home plane. The synthesist uses the eidolon’s base attack bonus, and gains the eidolon’s armor and natural armor bonuses and modifiers to ability scores. The synthesist also gains access to the eidolon’s special abilities and the eidolon’s evolutions. The synthesist is still limited to the eidolon’s maximum number of natural attacks. The eidolon has no skills or feats of its own. The eidolon must be at least the same size as the synthesist. The eidolon must have limbs for the synthesist to cast spells with somatic components. The eidolon’s temporary hit points can be restored with the rejuvenate eidolon spell.
While fused, the synthesist loses the benefits of his armor. He counts as both his original type and as an outsider for any effect related to type, whichever is worse for the synthesist. Spells such as banishment or dismissal work normally on the eidolon, but the synthesist is unaffected. Neither the synthesist nor his eidolon can be targeted separately, as they are fused into one creature. The synthesist and eidolon cannot take separate actions. While fused with his eidolon, the synthesist can use all of his own abilities and gear, except for his armor. In all other cases, this ability functions as the summoner’s normal eidolon ability (for example, the synthesist cannot use his summon monster ability while the eidolon is present).
Construct armor sounds cool, but the rules are incomplete.
If you start with a golem the 'base' construct...are you immune to magic (in the same ways golems are)?
Do you get the Damage Reduction?
Movement modes?
Can the construct armor be enchanted like armor?
Do you inherit construct traits (Immunity to all mind-affecting, bleed, disease, death, necromancy, paralysis, poison, sleep, stunning, ability damage/drain, fatigue, exhaustion, energy drain, nonlethal damage, massive damage) while the armor is intact?
Do Special attacks and Defenses transfer?
Or is it 'just' a HP sponge.
I agree the rules seem incomplete.
You aren't the golem, it is a seperate entity. Why would you get the immunities? Or the damage reduction? If they are attempting to damage the golem that is one thing those come into play.
Movement modes, you are able to command the golem to do things so you could command it to fly up, climb that tree, etc. So in a way you do get those.
Golems aren't armor, they are a creature so no you couldn't enchant one after the fact as far as RAW goes.
Certain defenses may come into play (an aura for example would be up and running) or things that the golem may activate (because you command it to) on other targets or in an area. The same for attacks.
You just need to remember the character and golem are two seperate entities.
There is a FAQ? Nice! Linkity?
I have looked into building golem armour extensivly as I think it looks awsome thematicaly, however I have ran into more questions then answers. Let me add to the list
1) size. Minor issue but most of the good golems are size large or larger. This means you have to run around in a permanced enlarge person. Can you legaly add the young template to your golem and reflavour it as minor or sumsuch? Probably a gm call, but I wantes to get it out of the way first.
2) It states that only the creator can wear it. Is it entirely unreasonable that he could create it for someone else and show them how to operate it?
3) Weight. A stone golem weighs 3000lbs. Does the wearer have to carry it like normal armour or does it support itself? Does the golem carry the wielder? Who's carrying capacity do you use, or do each get their own?
4) Magic immunity. Does the caster benifit from the golems immunities? I would imagine it would suffer from the drawbacks. How about the casters own spells?
5) Special abilities. Can a stone golem still use its slow attack? Can clockwork golem still use its grind attack? How about its wall of gears ability?
6) Special attacks. Can you attack with the golems slam attack or are you limited to your own attack forms? What about unique attacks like the cannon golems cannon?
7) Whose ablity scores do you use? I can undersand the mental ones but the physical ones are a little hazy.
Ah more questions I forgot to ask about.
8) What happens when you give the golem the brain modification, and subsequently, feats? Say you give him something you don't have like two-weapon fighting or precise shot, can you make use of them?
9) How exactly is AC calculated? The golem counts as splint mail and enchanting it is simple enough, but what if you have dodge? What if your golem has dodge? Do racial bonuses to AC and such come into effect? Whose dex do you use? Basicaly are you attacking the character or the golem, or a combination of the two?
10) How is CR affected? Is it treated like another character, oris it treated more like a class feature 'pet' in that it costs a significant porton of your wealth?
1) Legality isn't really the issue, *if* your GM allows this we're in GM fiat territory regardless. This a custom magic item and is pretty much completely up to the GM.
2) See 1. Personally I'd just make an appropriately sized golem and adjust the stats for the size change. No template needed.
3) Read the FAQ, the golem isn't just an inanimate object to be carried. Your carrying capacity shouldn't impacted just like your speed doesn't decrease it seems.
4) Read the FAQ.
5) Read the Construct Armor, the construct doesn't take independant action when worn. It can use the ability but must be commanded to (typically a standard action as it has no other action specified).
6) This one is a great deal less straight forward. I personally would allow use of natural weapons with the typical rules regarding manufactured and natural weapons. You are still limited to your own BAB and constructs typically don't have more than 2 attacks so you aren't really gaining that much.
7) You use your stats, the construct uses its stats when commanded to do something when worn or when you are not wearing it. Nothing in the write up hints at anything else.
8) Read the Construct Armor. The construct takes no independant actions when being worn. Using feats would be an independant action, as would granting you access to the feat. You could command the construct to answer or do something and it would use the feat or skills it gained from the modification.
9) It isn't splint mail, it is similar to breastplate for statistics (but isn't because it doesn't adjust speed). Nor is it armor, it is a construct, an actual creature. It can't be enchanted as armor. Your dodge feat would be active like normal. The constructs dodge feat would do nothing for the wearer. The wearer uses their stats, nothing points to you using the constructs stats (which incidentally would be acting independantly and so not possible). This isn't a 'combination' of the two like the synth, it is basically an item when worn and that can do specific actions when commanded by the wearer.
10) CR isn't affected if it is something the owner/character could afford.
This is indeed a good FAQ candidate, as a few of my players have shown interest in trying out a set of Construct Armor.
It's an enchanted suit of armor.
Can your full plate +5 take separate actions?
Can you use it's strength?
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Speaking as someone using this armor in games, it doesn't allow you take any actions at all with the construct until you ask it to Transformer into itself next to you.
Expect table variance, enjoy.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/magic-armor
Because you are looking it up in a site that has so many numerous errors that many people reject anything found on it, like me.
worn like armor by its creator ... Construct armor counts as breastplate armor for purposes of determining AC, weight, Dexterity modifiers to AC, and chance of arcane spell failure.
I've always assumed that if you are wearing "golem armor" you can use all your normal abilities, plus those of the "golem armor" ... think of it as a power armor suit..
You get all the abilities of the golem, and yourself. sort of like a synthesist.
Seems pretty straight forward to me.
I stand corrected. It's a modification made to an existing golem.
I guess it would function as normal, till you put it on.
At that point you're in complete control of the golem, you can use it's abilities, and it uses your BAB and saves.
The construct’s wearer retains his base attacks and saves.
Construct armor counts as breastplate armor for purposes
of determining AC, weight, Dexterity modifers to AC, and
chance of arcane spell failure.
So when determining what defensive benefit it gives you, it's AC bonus becomes that of breastplate armor, using the max dex of breastplate armor, and the arcane spell failure chance of breastplate armor.
So while the golem while active might have an AC of 30, when worn it'll only be +6 AC, max DEX 3, 25% spell failure. FAQ says it doesn't affect your spd.
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The data and information on that site (d20pfsrd) is straight out of the books, if you reject that site, then what rules do you even use?
I don't use that site. I'll use the most recent printing of the book or archive of nethys. That site makes a habit of altering the text to "help" you understand.