Best way to make power armor?

[Pinkie Pyro]

the campaign I'm currently In is supposed to be set in the future, but all technology is simply re-fluffed spells.

I'm currently trying to make power armor for under 25,000 GP, and I'm a bit lost as to what to do.

currently all I've got is continual fist of stone for +6 str and a slam attack, i'm not sure what to do for protection, stone skin seems really weak...

[Gildedragon]

Well you got the price almost right
Enter, the Clockwork Armor (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/cw/20070212a)
Market Price: 27.5kgp
An artificer can make it cheaper


As for other armors:

Girallion's Blessing + Arms of Plenty + Fuse Arms

Perpetual Tenser's Transformation or Metal Skin

[Aegis013]

Considering that as long as you don't use an Ectopic Form feat you can choose how an Astral Construct (http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Astral_Construct_%28Power%29) that you manifest looks/is shaped, you can summon one onto your own character and act like it's power armor.

That saves you all of your gold as long as your DM is game for doing that.

[ArqArturo]

Can it be mechanically (no pun intended) possible to adapt mechanical armor to warforged?.

[Captnq]

Uh, there is no power armor in 3.5. (well that on line steam armor, but that's just silly) My sig file has the link to the EVD. Combat section includes every form of armor and the ASAs that go with it.

I need to understand how you are "refluffing" spells to make any recommendations.

[Gildedragon]

Uh, there is no power armor in 3.5. (well that on line steam armor, but that's just silly) My sig file has the link to the EVD. Combat section includes every form of armor and the ASAs that go with it.

I need to understand how you are "refluffing" spells to make any recommendations.

Oh but there is a Power armor (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/inertialArmor.htm)

[Bronk]

Have you considered making futuristic looking golems and riding around in them as if they were power armor? You could start with an inexpensive type, and work your way up to iron or something like that as you go.

Maybe just a tricked out suit of full plate that can cast 'enlarge person' on it, gauntlets of heartfelt blows for power fists, and so on?

Be a druid, and take on powerful forms which are refluffed as donning an animalistic mecha suits?

Polymorph, but everything you turn into looks shiny and metallic?

Warforged... but you're actually a human or elf or halfling stuck inside armor that grants you all the abilities a warforged would normally get?

[Erik Vale]

There's clockwork armor and persistant spell effects ala mentioned above. If you're willing/able to steal from pathfinder, there is a more expensive option, being the construct armor modification... I think it's 37500, it's on the SRD. You get to wear a construct, you get to control it's ability, the construct counts as breastplate, and attacks hurt the construct first. I've always thought it hugely, massively, excessively overpriced given that constructs can go as little as 800 [clockwork creatures at 1 HD] and think breastplates too little, but there it is, and you could ask your DM for a saner version.

[Thiyr]

I'm 99% certain you could do it with this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?320298-My-Little-Gramarist-SCIENCE!-is-Magic-Gramarie-Discussion) if homebrew is cool.

[Pinkie Pyro]

I mostly meant, what armor abilities+continual/use activated spells would make good power armor if you just called them something different, IE: fly for a jet pack, stoneskin for some sort of sheild...


Oh but there is a Power armor (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/inertialArmor.htm)

*slow clap*

[Flickerdart]

you can summon one onto your own character
I've seen this bandied around, but no rules text has ever been cited that would support summoning a creature around another creature.

[ArqArturo]

When I think of Power Armor-esque in a fantasy setting, I usually think of this:

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/117/2/3/man_o_war_demoliton_corp_by_marktarrisse-d55oxnq.jpg

[Coidzor]

If you can get Synthesist Summoner from Pathfinder approved, their Eidolon is basically their power armor. It augments their HP pool, replaces their physical ability scores in most ways, gives them more capabilities, etc.

[Aegis013]

I've seen this bandied around, but no rules text has ever been cited that would support summoning a creature around another creature.

You're right. I don't think there is any rules text explicitly allowing it, which is why I included "as long as your DM is game for doing that" in the post. It could be ruled against, but if they're refluffing spells into technology anyway that might be a good way to go.

[Milo v3]

I'm 99% certain you could do it with this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?320298-My-Little-Gramarist-SCIENCE!-is-Magic-Gramarie-Discussion) if homebrew is cool.

Specifically, check the latest post. It should be me saying two or three ways on how to make power armour :smalltongue: