Constructs and Creation

[Ruethgar]

Assume you are playing an intelligent construct. If you were to make a sword molded perfectly to your arm with true, major or minor creation using your body as the material component, what statistics and special qualities might it posses? For instance, might the weapon be treated as unarmed(much like the Kython's grown weapons in Book of Vile Darkness) since it is quite literally and extension of yourself? Or would you still have to have skill with the weapon created(Bladed Gauntlet basically)? Also if you were to grapple or otherwise entrap someone and use a creation spell to extend spikes from your body into theirs, what might be the rules governing such an attack? Just a thought that popped into my head looking at feats today, may very likely be that I am not reading the spell correctly and such an act is impossible.

[erikun]

Logically speaking, fabricating a weapon using your body parts (either through a spell or no) does not make it a natural weapon. It is manufactured, quite literally, and would presumably be treated as any manufactured weapon.

Note that you don't need to be a construct in order for someone to craft weapons out of your body. There is Graft Weapon (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/graftWeapon.htm), and most plants/humanoids could have their body parts turned into wooden or bone weapons, respectively. Note that warforged have a means of swapping out arms for mounted weapons, and so don't need to go through the hassle of actually crafting their body parts.

You could argue that any the weapon made from your body is a natural weapon by definition (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#naturalWeapons), and thus you'd have proficiency in it, but that's getting into the deep pool of RAW legalese.


Armor spikes have their own rules (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/armor.htm#armorSpikes) and I'd assume that any spell creating something similar would behave in the same way, or carry its own description on how it works.