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Clockwork PuppeteerCreature 12

Rare​N​Large​Clockwork​Construct​Mindless​
Source Pathfinder #180: The Smoking Gun
Perception +20 (darkvision)
Languages none
Skills Athletics +0, Athletics +25, Stealth +25
Str +6, Dex +6, Con +2, Int -5, Wis +2, Cha -5
AC 33; Fort +22; Reflex +25; Will +19;
HP 205
Speed 25 feet (climb 25 feet)
Immunities death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, mental, necromancy, nonlethal attacks, paralyzed, poison, sickened, unconscious
Weaknesses Electricity 10, Orichalcum 10
Resistances Physical 10
Claw One Action +24 (+19, +14) to hit 3d10+9 Slashing
String One Action +24 (+19, +14) to hit (range 60) 3d8+9 Slashing
Darkvision

A monster with darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. Some forms of magical darkness, such as a 4th-level Darkness spell, block normal darkvision. A monster with Greater Darkvision, however, can see through even these forms of magical darkness.

Wind-Up

24 hours, DC 22 thievery, standby

For a clockwork to act, it must be wound with a unique key by another creature. This takes 1 minute. Once wound, it remains operational for the listed amount of time, usually 24 hours, after which time it becomes unaware of its surroundings and can't act until it's wound again. Some clockworks' abilities require them to spend some of their remaining operational time. They can't spend more than they have and shut down immediately once they have 0 time remaining. If it's unclear when a clockwork was last wound, most clockwork keepers wind all their clockworks at a set time, typically 8 a.m.

A clockwork that lists standby in its wind-up entry can enter standby mode as a 3-action activity. Its operational time doesn't decrease in standby, but it can sense its surroundings (with a -2 penalty to Perception). It can't act, with one exception: when it perceives a creature, it can exit standby as a reaction (rolling initiative if appropriate).

A creature can attempt to Disable a Device to wind a clockwork down (with a DC listed in the wind-up entry). For each success, the clockwork loses 1 hour of operational time. This can be done even if the clockwork is in standby mode.

Clockwork Swarm (aura)

30-foot emanation Aura

A cloud of flying, spiderlike clockworks surrounds the clockwork puppeteer. A creature that ends its turn in the cloud takes 4d8 piercing damage (DC 29 basic reflex).

Clockwork String

Any creature hit by the puppeteer's string is Grabbed. The puppeteer can move while it has a creature grabbed with its string, but it automatically releases the creature if the puppeteer moves beyond the string's 60-foot length. The puppeteer can use up to six strings at a time. It can release any creature grabbed by a string as a free action. Each string has AC 30, and its Escape DC is 32. A string can be severed by a Strike that deals at least 20 slashing Damage to it. This doesn't deal any damage to the clockwork puppeteer.

Create Puppet Reaction (arcane)

Trigger A creature Grabbed by the puppeteer's clockwork string dies

Effect The triggering creature's body becomes infested with tiny clockworks. This puppet is fully under the clockwork puppeteer's control and has statistics identical to a zombie of its size with the following exceptions: It loses the undead trait, loses negative healing, loses its weakness to positive damage, and gains the construct trait.

Pull String One Action

The puppeteer reins in a creature Grabbed by its string. The puppeteer attempts an Athletics check against the creature's Fortitude DC. On a success, the puppeteer pulls the creature 15 feet closer to it (30 feet closer on a critical success).

Clockwork puppeteers are grim constructs capable of controlling corpses like puppets. They typically stand 12 feet tall and have spindly legs and long arms ending with scalpel-like claws. Dozens of metallic strings, composed of interlocking clockwork links, hang from their wrists.

As one delves deeper into the industrial heart of Alkenstar, the clockwork adversaries one faces become ever more complex and deadly.

Traits

Rare

This rarity indicates that a rules element is very difficult to find in the game world. A rare feat, spell, item or the like is available to players only if the GM decides to include it in the game, typically through discovery during play. Creatures with this trait are rare. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to these creatures is increased by 5.

Clockwork

Clockworks are intricate, complex constructs that can be programmed to perform specific functions.

Construct

A construct is an artificial creature empowered by a force other than necromancy. Constructs are often mindless; they are immune to bleed damage, death effects, disease, healing, necromancy, nonlethal attacks, poison, and the doomed, drained, fatigued, paralyzed, sickened, and unconscious conditions; and they may have Hardness based on the materials used to construct their bodies. Constructs are not living creatures, nor are they undead. When reduced to 0 Hit Points, a construct creature is destroyed.

Mindless

A mindless creature has either programmed or rudimentary mental attributes. Most, if not all, of their mental ability modifiers are -5. They are immune to all mental effects.