Mobile Suit Gundam-Inspired Armors

[gamecat]

Here's two armors that came to me while loitering in Uncle Howie's Pizza.

Dom Armor

Dom Armor appears as a full plate armor with a wide skirt and flared calf guards, and helm with a cross visor with a pink jewel dangling in the middle. (which doesn't obscure vision) The armoris mostly violet, with the visor painted red.

Dom Armor has a +3 enhancement. When worn, the wearer and hover over the ground at a speed of 40 ft. You cannot run while wearing this armor. The extra agility granted by this armor gives the wearer a +3 resistance bonus to reflex saves and an additional attack of opportunity.

Caster level: 9th. Prerequisites: Craft magic arms and armor; Expeditious Retreat; Haste; Market Value 51,650 GP.

Gouf Armor

Gouf Armor is blue-enameled full plate +3, with spiked shoulders. The right gauntlet has a large housing with a +1 flaming shock whip that lashes out with a command word. The armor confers proficency with the whip.

Caster level: 10th. Prerequisites: Craft magic arms and armor; master's touch; Shrink Item; Flame blade, Flame Strike, Fireball; Call Lightning, Lightning bolt, or Scintillating Sphere; Market Price 31,801

 

[Steven McRownt]

Well i don't know how could taste this pizza but your armors are very nice....

I was wondering if you should stack even an enlarge spell, to give them the Bigger size modifiers and so a better mecha look!!!

Steven McRownt

 

[hong]

Love the colour scheme, darling.

 

[las]

Game cat they look good why dont you make more with other power like the one that whould shouts a shpere of drstushen if you need help I can give you the spell you need one monday at shcool.

 

[Angelsboi]

would this work for Escaflowne?

 

[Rackhir]

I haven't tried running the pricing, but if you are going to restrict the Dom Armor to no running, I would bump the movement to 60' or simply x2 the base movement since it has Expeditious retreat on it.

Nice concept though. I'm holding out for a Quebbley Armor however. Ah Haman Sama!

 

[gamecat]

I already have given x2 movement (20 ft. in full plate, x2). Hong, piss off. Watch Mobile Suit Gundam and then be an idiot. Qubeley armor? What an Idea! I'll think that up next.

 

[Corinth]

I haven't done this for D&D, but I've done something similiar for my Feng Shui campaign. I used the MS-06 Zaku II as a type of Abomination (1) and used three of them against the PCs. The PCs recently made a foray into the future dystopia of 2056 to get their ally, Dr. Henry Jones IV, out of the clutches of the Architects of the Flesh.

(I'll skip the detailed retelling for now. To suffice, I'll say this: if it were not for the savage determination of Iori Yagami (2) and Himura Kenshin (3) then all five PCs would've died and Dr. Henry Jones IV (4) would've doomed the present and the past to a very ugly existance after he broke under torture.)

My approach, to bring this out of a non-D20 discussion, was that I transformed the mobile suit into a Giant-type humanoid creature of Large size. I mimicked the mobile suit's capabilities as best I could by using the host system's equivalents. In D20 terms this would be a fair amount of Damage Reduction (to mimic the Zaku's general immunity to anything short of MS-scale weaponry, save for a well-placed shot by an AT weapon or a grenade), a decent Speed rating (a Zaku could keep up with a cruising tank with ease), good physical stats (IMO, about equal to a fire giant), and some damn good weaponry. (The Heat Hawk could easily be a Keen Sure-Striking battleaxe, the Cracker is a scaled-up flare/bomb, the 120mm machingun is beyond the scope of what D20 material that I have on hand and so is the bazooka.) FS is a gun-friendly game, so converting the MG and bazooka was quite easy to accomplish.

I intend to convert the Gouf and Gouf Custom next for when I have the PCs defend the Dragons HQ from a concert Architect assault.

Footnotes:

1. "Abomination", in this context, means "a Chinese demon transformed into a combat cyborg by one of the BBEG factions".
2. Yes, the one from SNK's King of Fighters franchise.
3. Yes, the one from the OVA and TV series.
4. No, not the one from the movies, but rather his grandson; Indy's an old man in the campaign, and he is a tragic hero-turned-villain.

 

[gamecat]

Qubeley Armor

Qubeley Armor is +3 full plate that has been enameled white and had violet and pink streaks painted on it for a sinister, if feminine, appearance. In the skirt armor, there are ten masterwork hand crossbows (called "Funnels"), each stored on a hook and responsive to a psionic character manifesting the psionic power Psycommu System. The Funnels can be enchanted or empowered as magic or psionic weapons in their own right. With a standard action, the wearer can: Deploy all Funnels; Fire 1 Funnel per pp spent; have a funnel reload at the cost of 1 pp; have all Funnels return to skirt armor.

Manifester Level: 15th. Prerequisites: Craft Psionic Arms and Armor, Bolt, Mindlink, Psycommu System. Market Value: 34,650 gp. Cost to Create: 20150 gp + 1160 XP.

I hope you possess the Psionics Handbook

Psycommu System
Telepathy
Level: Psion 4/Psychic Warrior 4
PP Cost: 7
Displays: Vi, Au
Manifestation Time: 1 action
Range: Personal
Duration: 1 minute/level

This power allows a standard manifester to use items that only work for newtypes*. While under the influence of this power, a character gains a +4 bonus to saves against effects similar to Hold Person

*Newtype template comes in my next post, plus Haman Khan's Stat Block.

 

[gamecat]

*Bump*