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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5677879" data-attributes="member: 8835">My sense is to look at the problem in real life, and see how much applies to the Golem.Translated to real life, the golem has voice recognition and object recognition.  You can tell it to carry something and bring it to you, and it can recognize your words and identify the object you are referring to, and then execute actions to complete the instruction.  Since the golem is able to walk around obstructions (pillars, big obstacles), it also has pathing capability.You can also instruct it to attack, and it figures out how to get past the targets defenses.  If it did not, it would keep making the same punching motion, which would inherently be easy to predict, block and avoid, hence lowering its BAB.So that speaks to some level of sophistication in processing ability.If we compare this to video game AI capabilities, its probably comparable.  Bear in mind, writing game AI is hard, and even today, while enemies appear to do smart things, they are not THINKING, they are executing clever situational routines.  routines which one could assume count as pre-coded in a golem.Thus, the golem can patrol the open areas exposed to it, and effectively knows the routes to any location in its territory.  If it needs to get to location X that is known to it, then it knows the routes that would get it there.The ability to interact with world objects seems part of the concept of golems.  It seems it would normally have the ability to open doors and pick up things.  it probably does not consider using those objects (you never see a guy in halo pick up a box and throw it at you).So, I would accept that a golem can actively get to anywhere in its zone. So when it hears a noise and has 2 ways to go, it will try one, and if that fails, try the other.It can also open doors, even the small one.  if it can sense the threat, it would certainly try to claw at them as part of its attack orders.it probably can't open the portculis, so if it tried that way, it would probably stop at the gate.Once the threat is out of range, I suspect it would move on to its normal routine.I would expect the golem to not destroy any structure, as part of its respect the world algorthm.  You really can't have a golem trying to move THROUGH obstacles as part of normal programming, or you will have serious problems in every day usage.  So, like video game enemies, walls and other "massive" objects are treated as impenetrable and not attempted to break through.</blockquote>

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