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Thread: Colossal Golems
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2012-07-27, 03:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Colossal Golems
I'm looking for official stats (or well-regarded homebrew) for golems (preferably flying) that are Colossal. The idea is that the mile-high mithril tower that forms the central keep of the main empire in my campaign is decorated with hundreds of statues of angels, all of which are golems bound to defend the Tower. The same is true of most of said Empire's holy sites, along with a large number of ancient sites in the other empires, which used to be part of this empire. While these are the good guys, and I do not anticipate the PCs fighting them, it is good to be prepared, and even better to keep in mind what the capabilities of the defenders are in the event of an attack on the tower by NPCs.
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2012-07-27, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
While not Golems per se, Pathfinder has rules for building animated objects of any size.
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2012-07-27, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
Thanks, but I've already got a few systems for that sort of thing that I like. I simply prefer to look for something already done before resorting to roll-your-own systems, as there's generally a rather large amount of play data.
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2012-07-27, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
The Colossus found on http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monsters/colossus.htm are, per fluff, golem-like constructs of colossal size.
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2012-07-27, 04:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
If I drop the antimagic field, and add flying and weapons, that should balance out well enough, and would be perfect. Thanks.
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2012-07-27, 04:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
Flying Golems hurt my brain.
What is it about Golems that you are after? If it's just spell immunity, slap that on something else.
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2012-07-27, 05:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
Animated Objects with big stone wings would seem to fit the bill.
For extra bonus points, make them Lawful Evil outsiders with levels in Fiend of Possession bound in contract by ancient Malconvokers.
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2012-07-27, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
The Immortal's Handbook has rules for making golems out of any material you want and any size up to Titanic/Colossal+; you don't have to use their pre-established golems. Note that I haven't tried actually making a golem using their rules, so it might end up ludicrously strong, and that it requires you to know the density of your material in comparison to water.
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2012-07-27, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2012-07-27, 08:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
Why can't you just apply the titanic template from MM2 to a regular golem?
Last edited by AntiTrust; 2012-07-27 at 08:11 PM. Reason: wrong name
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2012-07-27, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
Actually, I have a theory that the Immortal's Handbook is an example of a closed temporal loop.
The publishers went forward in time, bought the handbook, and brought it back in time, showing it to sane D&D players.
The now previously-sane unfortunates head-desking thrashings of induced madness against a conveniently placed keyboard were used for the body of text for the Immortal's Handbook.
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2012-07-27, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
You know, you can combine the slower construction flaw with Additional Movements to gain up to 8 extra construction points. It would have a normal ground movement, 0 movement in any of the other forms, and a lot of extra abilities.
Too bad the other abilities suck.
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2012-07-27, 08:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
My apologies, I thought that perhaps it might be useful to have a system to use as a basis and that since it doesn't create High Epic monsters unless you use an esoteric material this might work.
Last edited by Iamyourking; 2012-07-27 at 08:28 PM.
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2012-07-29, 08:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
I haven't even heard of it before this thread, and it already sounds terrible. Like F.A.T.A.L all over again. ROLL FOR YOUR GOLEM'S ANAL CIRCUMFERENCE
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2012-07-31, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-31, 06:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
Nothing is as bad as FATAL.
To explain the joke, the Immortal's Handbook is a badly written 3rd party supplement where every monster is just list of gigantic numbers (including the Challenge Rating) and assorted special qualities that all translate into "this monster is immune to everything ever, yes even that, lol." Based on the ludicrously inflated stat blocks, the assumption is that the book was written by putting boxing gloves on an epileptic monkey, letting it flail away at a number pad for a few hours, then taking the results and handing them off to an editor to be formatted and named.NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2012-07-31, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
Let me sum up the colossal template.
+20 str, size changes to colossal
There. I have now summed up the colossal template.
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2012-07-31, 07:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-31, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
42. That is all.
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2012-07-31, 08:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-01, 05:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
If build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day.
If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
My Homebrew
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2012-08-01, 09:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-01, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-01, 11:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2012-08-01, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Colossal Golems
If build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day.
If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
My Homebrew
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2012-08-01, 11:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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