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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RUMBLETiGER" data-source="post: 5736915" data-attributes="member: 6674868">A Donkey with a cart will accomplish this in a much similar fashion, without the complications.Or a henchman that you pay a few silver pieces to regularly.Or a Follower from Leadership Feat (IF your considering investing in the Craft Warforged Feat, Leadership will provide you so much more).Or a trained monkey with a bad of holding.Or, just carry a bag of holding...I guess what I'm saying is, if you want to have somebody hold the gear, you could find a simpler method. ...IF you want a construct or elemental, Dude, use it for more than just holding your stuff!!!  Item familiar's are usually built into a weapon so as to participate in the action.  Constructs, Golems, Elementals, they can participate in the action!Secondly, I hear your distinction between binding/enslaving an elemental essence into a construct to make it go, vs. arranging some agreement that it voluntarily drives your construct instead.  What are you willing to compensate this elemental in terms of payment?  Since an elemental would much rather stay in the comfort of it's native plane, working for you will still be a drag, even if it's voluntary, so you need to make it worth the creature's while.  I'm imagining two Medium-sized elementals piloting an <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/tt/20070703a" target="_blank">Apparatus of Kwalish</a> (DMG p.247).  Or two small sized elementals with the personalities of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelie_%28Transformers%29" target="_blank">Wheelie </a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brains_%28Transformers%29" target="_blank">Brains</a> as they tear apart the Decepticons ship in Transformers 3.<img src="http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111023010504/transformersdarkofthemoon/images/1/19/Wheelie_and_Brains.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dx20070612_tacticstips_items3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I'm assuming you're a Player, because if you were the DM the answer would be "Make up whatever you want and handwave it".  What class/level is the character that would be considering doing these things, so I have a better idea of your capabilities and could provide more constructive feedback?</blockquote>

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