Need help filling a friends request for a character.

[ariasderros]

Okay, I often help people in my groups make their characters because I have read the books through and am on sites like this often. However, a new player to our group asked me to help him make a character that I have no idea as to how to make sure he ends up happy. So I am asking ya'll for help.

What he wants is Robocop. Not similar to Robocop, or based on Robocop, he wants to be Robocop. The name on the otherwise still blank sheet is Alexander James Murphy. The most important thing seems to be that he wants a "gun" and he wants it to be stored in his right leg when not in use.

The problems are:
A) That there is a "no Artificers" restriction right now
B) It has been a long time since I saw those movies, and he is the type of geek that gets into full-on nerd-rage arguments about things, so I don't think I can get away with half-assing it. As an example, there was a point that it was suggested that he might have to be NG, and the only way he ended up happy with that was after two people spent 10 minutes going analyzing Murphy's alignment throughout second movie.
C) I don't want him to be useless in the party. (No one else cares if he is or not though, but I don't think we need another lump)

What I have to work with
Level: he will be joining at level 16
Race: He wants it to be Warforged.
Stats: Rolled; 17, 15, 15, 14, 11, 8
Starting Wealth: by WBL chart, 280,000 (The campaign is a monty haul though, one person could be liquidated for 7,000,000).
Restrictions: WotC material. No third-party. No Artificers. Dragon material run by DM. No Unearthed Arcana. No Psionics (DM is "one of those"). Action Points only come from Feats and PrC’s.

Other Party Members
Warblade: melee fighter who can deal ~150 damage per turn.
Hood / Ubercharger: melee fighter who can deal ~200 damage per turn, ~3-400 on charging high-jump.
Cleric: archer who can deal ~90 damage per turn, and is our walking wand of CLW.
Shadowcraft Mage: handles BFC and de-buffing.
Lump: is a lump. Doesn’t realize that he is a lump, and has fun.

What I’ve been thinking
Warlock to Hellfire Warlock (we already have permission to ignore the alignment) who’s scepter is re-flavored to be his “gun”. Using the action point / unfettered heroism / wand surge to cast restoration to recover from the con damage.

No idea how to put it into his leg. No idea what else I should be preparing to do for Officer Murphy.

[tuesdayscoming]

Hmm... For storing the weapon in the leg, perhaps you could use a modified version of the Absorb Weapon spell from Complete Adventurer?

It's a level 3 Assassin spell that normally stores a single weapon in your arm.

[ariasderros]

Hmm... For storing the weapon in the leg, perhaps you could use a modified version of the Absorb Weapon spell from Complete Adventurer?

It's a level 3 Assassin spell that normally stores a single weapon in your arm.

That will work quite easily.

[SleepyShadow]

If you are building a hellfire warlock, I recommend taking a 2-level dip into incarnate for strongheart vest. That will negate the con damage he'd be suffering.

It may be worth asking your DM if he would allow the gun mage from Iron Kingdoms (Not WotC, but not 3rd party either IIRC. 2nd party?  ). Here's a link to a stand-alone pdf of the class: http://files.meetup.com/47309/IK%20Gun%20Mage%20(as%20per%20character%20book).pdf

[sirpercival]

Is homebrew allowed at all?  Because there's this: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211924

I think the author is on this site too.

[ariasderros]

Is homebrew allowed at all?

No. The Iron Kingdoms thing would not either. There is no OGL or homebrewed content allowed, not L&L, not BoEF, nothing.

If you are building a hellfire warlock, I recommend taking a 2-level dip into incarnate for strongheart vest. That will negate the con damage he'd be suffering.

In our group, negation of the damage would fall under the "cannot be immune to the damage" caveat. Thus the need to heal it.

[Garryl]

Nab(erius) a level of Binder and bind(er) Naberious to heal the Con damage (up to 1/turn).

[ariasderros]

I'm still not sure what all else to do for the feats though. Or how to mock-up the "weapon arm" from the third movie (the jet pack is just fell flight re-fluffed). Or if there might be an easier / better way of making robocop.

Have half a mind to give this guy leadership, for a unicorn cohort. because: A) the DM spends too much time on Memebase, so the robocop riding a unicorn thing might make him cry (always a plus); B) the player is a Brony.