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Arcane Propulsion Armor can give additional body parts to the wearer instead of "missing" ones:

If the wearer is missing any limbs, the armor replaces those limbs—hands, arms, feet, legs, or similar appendages. The replacements function identically to the body parts they replace.

An artificer provides such an armor to a naga. Naga has no legs, so it is missing them. Will it get legs from the armor?

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No, from context.

In this particular case "missing" means that you do not have something any more. This interpretation is supported by the other verb in the description (emphasis mine):

If the wearer is missing any limbs, the armor replaces those limbs—hands, arms, feet, legs, or similar appendages. The replacements function identically to the body parts they replace.

Replace means to take the place of something that was there before: hence, if you had a leg and you lost it during a fight against a Kraken, then Arcane Propulsion Armor can replace it with a new one. But since a Naga, as in your example, never had a leg the Arcane Propulsion Armor can not replace it

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Is this scenario possible only when we use the "Lingering Injures" optional rule from the DMG? \$\endgroup\$
    – enkryptor
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 10:51
  • \$\begingroup\$ @enkryptor I would say injury house rules are more common. If I knew there was an artificer in my group with this feature I would be likely to have them lose a limb just to give them a use of their cool feature \$\endgroup\$
    – SeriousBri
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 11:08
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    \$\begingroup\$ @enkryptor No: it sufficient that some enemy creature fighting the party has the sword of sharpness \$\endgroup\$
    – Eddymage
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 11:10
  • \$\begingroup\$ Wouldn't missing (adjective) be a better dictionary reference for this usage, rather than miss (verb)? I don't think it would change your answer. \$\endgroup\$
    – smbailey
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 17:19
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Blueriver In the form of a Naga, the leg is not missing, since a Naga has no legs at all. Once reverted back, the creature can't use the armor since it is tailored to be worn by a Naga and not by a human. \$\endgroup\$
    – Eddymage
    Commented Sep 29, 2022 at 20:49

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