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Portrait of the Clay Golem
Creature · Built-in

Clay Golem

Large Construct, unaligned

  • High difficulty
  • CR 6
  • Melee

A man-shaped servant of river clay from the old Prague tale, woken by a word written on its brow and stopped by erasing it.

Statistics

Armor Class
14 (baked clay)
Hit Points
104 (11d10 + 44)
Speed
Walk 20 ft
Challenge
CR 6 · 2300 XP
Size
Large — Takes a 2-by-2 block of map cells.
Senses
Darkvision 60 ft
Languages
Understands its maker
STR20+5
DEX9−1
CON18+4
INT3−4
WIS8−1
CHA1−5

Attacks

Multiattack

Slam × 2

Slam Melee

+8 to hit · Reach 5 ft (1 map cell)

Damage: 2d8 + 5 bludgeoning

Abilities

Word of Making At will

GM guidance: a word on its brow gives it life; whoever erases one letter of it turns the golem back into clay.

Grows Each Night At will

GM guidance: left unchecked it grows a little larger and harder to command.

Defenses

Resistances
Nonmagical
Immunities
Poison, Psychic

Environment & tags

Environments
Urban, Dungeon, Ruins
Groups
Constructs
Tags
construct, golem, guardian