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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6749512" data-attributes="member: 57383">Yes, things are slowly improving.What, you're NOT usually up at 4 am. I thought you had a cat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />Hmm... that's a decent start. The original creature had separate slots for arms, legs, head and so forth, so I was thinking we should crib from the magic items equipment locations.How about this:Spiritual Equipment (Su): A guardian juggernaut's body is carved with slots that correspond to the twelve locations a humanoid can wear magic items on (head, eyes, neck, torso, body, waist, shoulders, arms, hands, ring fingers, feet). When the juggernaut is activated, a juggernaut's pilot can place equipment in these slots and equip themselves with special wooden replicas of the equipment (see Activating A Guardian Juggernaut, below, for details). A magical copy of that equipment, sized appropriately for the juggernaut, appears on the juggernaut when it activates.For example, if a breastplate is placed in the body cavity, a breastplate of spiritual energy forms around the guardian juggernaut and grants it a +5 armor bonus. Similarly, if a +1 battleaxe is placed in a Huge juggernaut's left arm slot, a spiritual Huge +1 battleaxe appears in the juggernaut's left hand. A guardian juggernaut's spiritual equipment has the mundane and magical properties of the items placed in the juggernaut's slots. These spiritual copies of the equipment must remain in contact with the guardian juggernaut, so the juggernaut cannot use ranged weapons that leave its hands, such as a bow's arrows, a thrown javelin or a tanglefoot bag. A juggernaut can use ranged weapons it remains connected to, such as a net or harpoon on a trailing line. A juggernaut cannot be "spiritually equipped" with more items than the pilot can equip themselves with. The magic of the guardian juggernaut allows the pilot to place items in its spiritual equipment slots that are too large to fit;  allowing the pilot to equip bulky items such as a tower shield or longspear into a juggernaut whose arm slots are too small for them. Spiritually equipping an item does not change its encumbrance.A spiritual equipment item can be attacked physically or magically, but if it is destroyed, stolen or rendered useless, the spiritual item vanishes and reappears sound and undamaged on the juggernaut pilot's next turn (a free action). A spiritual item is affected by dispel magic, a rod of cancellation and the like, but this just causes the item to vanish until the pilot's next turn. However, If one of the original items in the guardian juggernaut's spiritual equipment slots is damaged, the spiritual copy of the item is also damaged to the same degree. Removing one of the original items from its slot causes the spiritual copy to [EITHER "vanish permanently, and it can only be replaced by re-activating the juggernaut" OR "vanish (the spiritual copy reappears if the original is placed backed in its slot)"]. The wood of the slots protects the original items with hardness 5, which is in addition to any hardness the original item itself may have.</blockquote>

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