Animated Flip Flops?

[Bronk]

Rip. Fair enough.

Don't give up so soon! The spell just won't animate objects that are currently being carried or worn, not that they can be worn. Putting them on would deactivate them, but taking them off again would reactivate them! That would even be great for fighter types, they could have plate mail that could stand watch for them as they slept, then hold off attackers until they wake up, then don themselves and let the person take over... Oh, and put a cape on it, and it could fly itself around too! That reminds me of a game we played in college, where you have some clay and make monsters with it, then have them fight based on abilities and stats derived from their form, like speed from extra legs, horn attacks, wings for flight... good stuff.

Also, there's the possibility of other means of acquiring animated objects. One example would be calling one as an urban druid. It would be of the kind that isn't created with spells, and the druid could probably call a different kind every day, then take control of the castoffs until they had as many as they wanted. Also, at least one of them would be empowered as their companion.