Category:Tombstone Golem

This section contains Potential-canon info, revealed by the creators from never-published sources

Descriptive Text

This section contains Homebrew non-canon info, created by fans

Such were the sins of Bloody Stoneheart against his own people that they cursed him so that the touch of unworked stone was fire to him. And it did not take long for the authorities to put him to flight from the cities. But he would find a reliable source of cut stone in the graveyards where he set to the crafting of his revenge. Within a few months, the named and dated markers of deceased relatives rose up as a single colossus to strike down the living.

- Working note for Van Ritchen’s Guide to The Created

Descriptive text contributed by cure to John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (posted on the Fraternity of Shadows message board).

Details

As per Stone Golem with +2 CR, removal of slow and addition of Slay Living (Su).

Construction

As per stone Golem with substitution of slaying living for slow. Price 135,000 gp, cost 70,000 gp, 5,200 XP, 5,000 gp kicker.

This section contains Potential-canon info, revealed by the creators from never-published sources

John W. Mangrum's Tombstone Golem Lore^[1]

Libris Mortis

Characters with ranks in Knowledge (arcana) can learn more about tombstone golems. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs.

DC Result 23 This hulking mass of fused headstones is a tombstone golem. This result reveals all construct traits.

28 A tombstone golem is immune to almost all forms of magic, and its rocky body deflects most attacks. However, adamantine weapons can prove effective, and a transmute rock to mud spell slows the creature for a few moments. This result also reveals the procedure for creating tombstone golems.

33 A tombstone golem attacks by smashing foes with its powerful fists. A transmute mud to rock spell repairs a tombstone golem of all damage it has suffered. Casting stone to flesh on a tombstone golem doesn’t actually damage it, but does drastically weaken its defenses against attacks and magic for a few seconds.

38 Every few moments, a tombstone golem can channel negative energy through one of its melee attacks, instantly snuffing out the life force of the creature it strikes like a slay living spell.

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