Use the reset command to reset objects in a room, on a mob that is in a room, or in an object that can contain other objects and is in a room (or is on a mob that is in a room).

Note how everything is "in a room". Resets are created in rooms, as part of the room object! The fact that the reset is armor on a guard makes no difference. It also makes no difference that the guard might walk out of the room. Resets... are created in rooms.

Thus, the first thing you do to create a reset is redit the room where you want the object, or the room where the mob resets.

Once you're in redit, the reset commands are:

• To make a reset for a mob or object that is directly in a room:
     reset add object item_vnum number_to_reset [flags]
     reset add mob mob_vnum number_to_reset [flags]
  Examples:
     reset add object 200 1 hidden
     reset add mob 109 1 stationary shopkeep
  Resulting resets:
     1 Object in room 200 1 hidden
     2 Mobile in room 109 1 stationary shopkeep
  
  
• To make a reset for an object on a mob is not yet implemented. So I'm guessing that it will be:
     reset add omob item_vnum mob_vnum wear_location
  Examples:
     TBS
  Resulting resets:
     TBS
  
  
• To make a reset for an object on a mob or other object, you must add a reset for the containing object before you add the reset for the contained object:
     reset add oobject item_vnum container_vnum
  Examples:
     reset add object 107
     reset add oobject 108 107
  Resulting resets:
       Resets
     Number Type Target Qty Extra
     =============================================
     1 Object in room 107 1 0
     2 Object in obj 48 0 107

Note: So far all resets are for objects that are in the same area as the reset. There's not a place to put an area number. So you'll have to make sure you copy over an object if you're using a standard one. I'd like this to change so you can use a standard object, and so we can have, say, the standard shortsword that all the villagers buy from Joe the Weaponsmith or people trained by him, so we have some sort of generic idea of "what is a basic shortsword". But we're not doing that yet.