Ability acting as Suit of Armor?

[TCArknight]

Hi all!

I'm working on the Psionics Expanded Aegis abilities ad am not sure how best to handle the Astral Suit when it's one of the Armor or Juggernaut types. This is the description of the Juggernaut suit:

When formed into astral juggernaut, an astral suit resembles masterwork half-plate and is treated as such for all mechanical purposes. Should the aegis be wearing armor when forming his astral suit in this fashion, the astral suit encloses the armor and the aegis gains the benefits of only his astral suit and not that from his armor, even if his armor would confer better benefits.

I see two things I need to do. First, create an Astral Juggernaut suit of armor that the ability bootstraps and automatically equip it, similar to the Mind Blade of the Soulknife. Second, which is where I'm a bit confused, is to un-equip any current armor.

Can I just delete a tag or would it be more complicated than that? The Form Astral Suit ability has an activation on the in-play tab. Can I use that status to toggle the equip/un-equip of Juggernaut/existing armor?

Thanks!
TC

 

[Aaron]

I think the Synthesist summoner does a similar thing, turning off all existing armor when fused. Take a look at that for an example.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Also the Warforged from the Eberron package is similar as it allows one to one of several body types that act as armor.

 

[TCArknight]

Ah, thanks. I'll check out both Eberron and the Synthesist.

 

[TCArknight]

Ok, I've somewhat got it working.

However, I need to have the Half-plate version show only when A) field[abilActive] on the Form Astral Suit class ability is active (Right now, I have it forwarding a tag to the hero. If there's a better way, I'm listening. ) and B) Aegis level is <= 6

I tried (count:hero#Custom.ASActive = 1) & (count:ClsCountAs.cHelpAeg <= 6) on the conditional bootstrap, but even though it worked with jus tthe tag part, once I added the second condition it's not.

TC

 

[Mathias]

I'd set up whatever adds the Custom.ASActive tag so that before it adds that tag, it tests the ClsCountAs tags.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Ok, I've somewhat got it working.

However, I need to have the Half-plate version show only when A) field[abilActive] on the Form Astral Suit class ability is active (Right now, I have it forwarding a tag to the hero. If there's a better way, I'm listening. ) and B) Aegis level is <= 6

I tried (count:hero#Custom.ASActive = 1) & (count:ClsCountAs.cHelpAeg <= 6) on the conditional bootstrap, but even though it worked with jus tthe tag part, once I added the second condition it's not.

TC

Your issue is going to be timing. Most likely you are doing the bootstrap at First/495 and the Class tags are not set until Post-Levels. I don't think your going to be able to do the Class Test.