Additionally, the armour grants its wearer a +2 (maybe +4, or upgradeable to +4) bonus to Strength. When worn, the armour is trated as only weighing 50 lbs., and armour check penalties are not Climb checks, and reduced to -3 on Acrobatics checks when jumping. +9 armour bonus, +0 max Dex, -6 check penalty, 40% spell failure, heavy, 100 lbs.
Okay, so here's my attempt at stating up a basic suit of steampunk powered armour:
#STEAM POWER ARMOR PLUS#
The biggest reason is that this plus armour enchantments (for energy resistance, mentioned above) allows for the concept and without having to come up with all sorts of unwieldy rules for a potentially unbalanced class (either over- or underpowered). In short, I don't see any reason to do anything beyond restat d20 Modern power armour like I mentioned above, rename the Armour Master to something like Steam Knight, and allow the character to integrate one built-in weapon to the suit - probably with a Craft check. Sure the list sounds long, but not in comparison to the list of abilities available to eidolons - even just using the book they were introduced in and nothing else. Especially if we want to keep it vaguely reasonable for a technological steam-powered suit.Ī Str bonus, defensive bonuses almost identical to what the Armour Master grants, perhaps energy resistance, and maybe an integrated weapon (mechanically identical to a katar, short sword, maybe a klar, or coat pistol) is about it. The main trouble I'd have with equipment having an eidolon-like progression is that there just really aren't that many options available for a suit of armour to gain without getting ridiculous. My previous comment, especially when coupled with this one probably shows that I'm probably not the right person to help with this, but I - again, if I were GM - might be convinced to allow a variant on the Armour Master fighter archetype. I was going to build something like the eidolon progression but very weakened, and ask the DM if I could replace the mount feature and possibly some other class abilities in exchange. but I kind of wanted the armor to play a bigger role. My first thought was to multi-class, Cavalier and summoner. The concpet is like a cavalier, or knight, but instead of riding on a mount, the power armor takes the place of the mount. Step 6 Decide if you want to keep things like life link that magically connect you to your eidolon. Step 5 Cut out the teleportation like 'Makers Jump' from the synthesist since this isnt a summoning anymore. Step 4 Figure out what evolutions are appropriate and which are not and pair down the list.
Step 3 Change the summon monster SLA to an ability that restores hit points to the steam power suit. Step 2 trade out the summoners spells (the augmenter package from super genius games martial archetypes) for one of the Martial Archetypes. Step 1 Start with the synthesist summoner bi pedal eidolon as the base stats for your steam power suit. Specifically of note for this task is the Super Genius Guide to Martial Archetypes. They are not like paizo archetypes in that each class has a set of abilities they can trade out for any of them. There is a set of 3rd party products by Supergenius games where they outline their versions of 'archetypes'. Has anyone done something like this? Any thoughts? Anyone willing to contribute? My concept is like a cavalier, but teh power armor being his mount. I dont want the power armor to be as powerful as an eidolon, as I dont want to take away from teh summoner, and I want the character to be more martial than a summoner. Innovations can be things like strength increase, damage reduction, the ability to use larger weapons, built in weapons, etc. The power armore would also have a base form, and have an "innovation pool" that can be used to unlock "innovations". The eidolon has base stats, and an evolution pool it can spend on evolutions. So what I was thinking is making it similar to how teh summoner works. I have a concept of playing a dwarf in steam powered armor. A frined of mine is starting a pathfinder game in a couple months.
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