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Special Qualities: Construct traits, damage reduction
10/adamantine, darkvision 60 ft., immunity to magic,
low-light vision
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +3, Will +4
Abilities: Str 32, Dex 9, Con —, Int —, Wis 11, Cha 1
Skills: —
Feats: —
Environment: Any
Organisation: Solitary or gang (2–4)
Challenge Rating: 12
Treasure: —
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 15–21 HD (Large); 22–42 (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
One of the strangest of Bastirak’s creations, the
lodestone golem is an experimental construct that taps
into the powerful magnetic energies clustered at the
North Pole. It resembles a lumpy stone golem made
from a rough black mineral. Lodestones are magnetic,
a quality which makes the lodestone golem a fearsome
opponent for creatures using metal equipment.
Ferrous Attraction (Su): The lodestone golem’s powerful
magnetic field causes ferrous metal objects to cling to
it. This has two consequences, the magnetic disarm and
the magnetic grapple.
• Magnetic Disarm: Whenever a creature strikes a
lodestone golem with a ferrous metal weapon, the
golem may make an immediate disarm attempt
as a free action, with a +3 bonus to its roll if the
weapon’s head is made from metal (such as a
halberd) and a +6 bonus if the weapon is mostly or
entirely made from metal (such as a spiked chain).
If the golem disarms the opponent, the weapon
sticks to the golem rather than falling to the floor.
To retrieve the weapon, the creature must make a
disarm attempt, as if he were trying to remove an
object in the golem’s possession. A golem cannot
wield a weapon that is stuck to it, though it can
remove the weapon from its body and wield it.
This counts as ‘drawing’ the weapon.
• Magnetic Grapple: The golem gains the benefit of
the Improved Grab special ability when attacking
a creature wearing ferrous metal armour; it can
immediately attempt a grapple as a free action
after successfully hitting such a target. The golem
gains a +3 bonus to all grapple checks made against
creatures wearing medium ferrous metal armour
and a +6 bonus to grapple checks made against
creatures wearing heavy ferrous metal armour.
Magnetic Drag (Su): As a standard action, a lodestone
golem can focus its magnetic energy and attempt to
pull a ferrous metal object or a creature (or group of
creatures) wearing metal armour towards itself. The
target creature or creatures must be within 120 feet and
must all be within a 30-foot radius. The golem makes an
opposed Strength check with the target creatures, using
its single result to affect all of them. Creatures who
are resistant to being moved against their will, such as
dwarves, add any bonuses that they would have against
a bull rush attack to this opposed Strength check. A
target creature who beats the golem’s Strength check
remains where it is. Creatures who fail to beat the
golem fly towards it in a straight line to a distance of ten
feet for every five points by which the golem’s check
result beat their own. At the end of this movement, they
must make successful Balance checks (DC 15) or fall
prone. This movement provokes attacks of opportunity
as if it had been voluntary and does not count towards
the creature’s movement for the round. The movement
counts as flight, so creatures can be pulled over pits and
chasms. They do not fall in unless their movement ends
over such features.
Magnetic Slow (Su): Fighting in the vicinity of a
lodestone golem while wearing metal armour is
extremely hard, as one has to struggle continually
against the magnetic tugging. Creatures wearing heavy
ferrous metal armour are slowed when they start their
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