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TABLE 6.3 MATERIALS AND SIZE VERSUS CONCUSSION HITS
Material Tiny Small Medium Large Huge
Adamantium 100 200 400 800 1200
Bone 30 60 120 240 360
Brass 30 60 120 240 360
Bronze 35 75 150 300 450
Clay 30 60 120 240 360
Copper 30 60 125 250 375
Crystal 55 110 225 450 675
Diamond 125 250 500 1000 1500
Emerald 75 150 300 600 900
Eog 125 250 500 1000 1500
Gold 20 40 80 160 240
Ice 25 50 100 200 300
Illinar 40 80 160 320 480
Iron 50 100 200 400 600
Laen 125 250 500 1000 1500
Lead 60 120 N/A N/A N/A
Ruby 75 150 300 600 900
Sapphire 75 150 300 600 900
Silver 20 40 80 160 240
Steel 60 125 250 500 750
Steel II 60 125 250 500 750
Steel III 60 125 250 500 750
Steel IV 60 125 250 500 750
Stone 45 90 180 360 540
Tar 30 65 130 260 390
Water 25 50 100 200 300
Wood 20 40 80 160 240
Note: The listed concussion hits are relatively conservative rather than generous. The assumption is that the magic
animating a Golem is unable to convert more than a fraction of the material’s compositional hardness into
concussion hits.
6.2.2 SHAPE
What form will the Golem take Humanoid Golems
are the commonplace creations of traditionalist creators.
For the average alchemist, the humanoid form is
the easiest to sculpt and animate because it is his own
form. A superficial knowledge of anatomy is adequate to
fashion a humanoid entity, which will be capable of
motion once enchanted. In contrast, creatures with extra
limbs (such as winged humanoids) or different limb
arrangements (quadrupeds with their four legs, birds,
fish) are less well understood. Much harder to imitate are
fantastic beasts, demons, and extra-planar beings – few
examples of these find their way to the dissecting table
and even then, magic and the physical laws of alternate
realities so influence their physiognomy that simulating
them is no trivial matter.
Some creators may seek to “improve” on nature’s
handiwork, by adding limbs and other appendages to a
particular form. In game mechanics terms, this increases
the entity’s creation level, as the mage must balance the
additions to the original shape. Extra limbs may provide
new methods of locomotion, greater stability or extra
attacks. A cautious enchanter might remove limbs from
a form – this will reduce the entity’s creation level
marginally. A humanoid Golem without arms cannot
attack its opponents; likewise one without legs cannot
move itself.
Shape also decides the nature of the attacks available
to a Golem. Humanoid Golems are normally limited to
Bash attacks with their mighty fists, or Grapple and
Crush attacks with their arms. Animal and monstrous
Golems imitate their organic counterparts with sculpted
claws, talons, horns, and so forth.
The creation level modifiers for various categories of
Golems are given below.
Shape Modifiers
Humanoids:
Normal humanoids (one head, torso, two arms, and
two legs): +0
Unusual humanoids (e.g. centaurs, avians, merfolk):
+1
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