A Steel Defender is a construct. The rules for attunement specify a creature. They are not creatures so it’s a very simple no. You don’t need to debate the meaning of life, the answer is very clearly in the rules already.
A Steel Defender is a construct. The rules for attunement specify a creature. They are not creatures so it’s a very simple no. You don’t need to debate the meaning of life, the answer is very clearly in the rules already.
Jeremy Crawford said on sage advice:" A D&D creature can use magic items, unless its anatomy or a rule precludes such use. For example, the steel defender is a creature that can reasonably use many different magic items."
A Steel Defender is a construct. The rules for attunement specify a creature. They are not creatures so it’s a very simple no. You don’t need to debate the meaning of life, the answer is very clearly in the rules already.
Construct is the creature type, constructs are still creatures. That is RAW.
Now I might sound dumb saying this but what if you raised its wisdom up and its intelligence. I feel like realistically all robots would have 0 wisdom because they don’t make decisions based on understanding things they just already know the answer due to equations and code. So like wouldn’t a certain level of wisdom make them become sentient? Obviously with a high enough level on intelligence.
Now I might sound dumb saying this but what if you raised its wisdom up and its intelligence. I feel like realistically all robots would have 0 wisdom because they don’t make decisions based on understanding things they just already know the answer due to equations and code. So like wouldn’t a certain level of wisdom make them become sentient? Obviously with a high enough level on intelligence.
I think it depends on how you define Wisdom as a concept. For gameplay purposes, it would be pretty awful to have an ally that will fail every wisdom save ever with no perception whatsoever. I think I like how they represented the wisdom with a flat 10... just absolute middle ground. But they also have expertise in perception... so while they lack the wisdom of a sentient creature that can process new information and adjust decision making and make assumptions, they still have a strong sense of sight/hearing/etc... all the mechanical parts function at above average levels, but the brain processing it is running completely flat.
A Steel Defender is a construct. The rules for attunement specify a creature. They are not creatures so it’s a very simple no. You don’t need to debate the meaning of life, the answer is very clearly in the rules already.
Jeremy Crawford said on sage advice:" A D&D creature can use magic items, unless its anatomy or a rule precludes such use. For example, the steel defender is a creature that can reasonably use many different magic items."
Construct is the creature type, constructs are still creatures. That is RAW.
Now I might sound dumb saying this but what if you raised its wisdom up and its intelligence. I feel like realistically all robots would have 0 wisdom because they don’t make decisions based on understanding things they just already know the answer due to equations and code. So like wouldn’t a certain level of wisdom make them become sentient? Obviously with a high enough level on intelligence.
I think it depends on how you define Wisdom as a concept. For gameplay purposes, it would be pretty awful to have an ally that will fail every wisdom save ever with no perception whatsoever. I think I like how they represented the wisdom with a flat 10... just absolute middle ground. But they also have expertise in perception... so while they lack the wisdom of a sentient creature that can process new information and adjust decision making and make assumptions, they still have a strong sense of sight/hearing/etc... all the mechanical parts function at above average levels, but the brain processing it is running completely flat.
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