Mechanical Strider Pack (3.5e Equipment)

Author: Ganteka Future (talk) Date Created: 10 May 2018 Status: Prototype Editing: Clarity edits only please

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Mechanical Strider Pack

This complex device is a metallic backpack strapped around the chest, providing some protection to the wearer's vitals while primarily designed to aid in mobility and function with the four mechanical arms with grasping claws that can extend and retract from it.

Mechanical Strider Pack (Medium)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	1500 gp	3000 gp	+3	12.5 lb.	20
Medium	1500 gp	3000 gp	+3	25 lb.	20

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	750 gp	1500 gp	+1	2.5 lb.	20
Diminutive	750 gp	1500 gp	+1	2.5 lb.	20
Tiny	750 gp	1500 gp	+1	2.5 lb.	20
Large	3000 gp	6000 gp	+3	50 lb.	20
Huge	6000 gp	12000 gp	+3	125 lb.	20
Gargantuan	12000 gp	24000 gp	+3	200 lb.	20
Colossal	24000 gp	48000 gp	+3	300 lb.	20

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+3	–6	20%	10

Speed
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	15 ft.	20 ft.	30 ft.	35 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	55 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
2 full-round actions	2 full-round actions	1 standard action
If the character has some help, cut this time in half. A single character doing nothing else can help one or two adjacent characters. Two characters can't help each other don armor at the same time. The wearer must have help to don this armor. Without help, it can be donned only hastily.

The mechanical strider pack is a sophisticated piece of mechanical engineering. As such, it is always masterwork (included in the stats above). As a move action, the wearer can deploy or retract the limbs and must otherwise control them manually, using a swift action or move action each round when deployed to do so.

When deployed and an appropriate action is taken to control the limbs, the strider pack functions as a masterwork skill tool for Balance, Climb, Escape Artist, Hide, Jump, Move Silently, Open Lock, Ride, Sleight of Hand, Swim, Tumble and Use Rope. Additionally when deployed, it grants Stability as a dwarf (including when climbing).

When climbing, they maintain a clamp on the surface they are attached to should the wearer not be able to spend an action to operate them.

It also has a cargo space, so it functions as a backpack as well.

Unlike most armors, the strider pack can be sundered if the limbs are deployed, though if sundered, the limbs become unusable until repaired.

Exotic Functionality

A wearer with the appropriate exotic armor proficiency reduces the armor check penalty by 3 and may don the armor as a full-round action. Additionally, the wearer is not hampered by the armor's encumbrance to his speed, may sleep in it without penalty and it grants the wearer a climb speed equal to half his base movement speed when deployed.

The limbs, when deployed, may be used to attack as a wielded masterwork one-handed reach weapon (which may attack adjacent targets), dealing damage as a dagger appropriate for the wearer's size, though it may count as a light weapon when beneficial to the wearer in combat. This "weapon" is enhanced separately from the armor itself.

Craft Requirements

The crafter must be skilled enough to construct such a complex piece of equipment and requires 5 ranks in the appropriate Craft skill as well as 5 ranks in Knowledge (engineering).

Craft (Armor) or Craft (Mechanics) DC 20. Market Price 1500 gp.

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