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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shade" data-source="post: 3851336" data-attributes="member: 287">Here's the last one from Genie's Curse...Copper Automaton, MiniatureCLIMATE/TERRAIN: Any/RuinsFREQUENCY: RareORGANIZATION: SolitaryACTIVITY CYCLE: ConstantDIET: NoneINTELLIGENCE: Low (5)TREASURE: NilALIGNMENT: NeutralNO. APPEARING: 1 (20%)3-18 (80%)ARMOR CLASS: 5MOVEMENT: 7HIT DICE: 3 + 3THACØ: 17NO. OF ATTACKS: 2DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-4 / 1-4SPECIAL ATTACKS: NoneSPECIAL DEFENSES: SpellImmunitiesMAGIC RESISTANCE: NilSIZE: M (3’-5’)MORALE: Fearless (20)EXP. POINT VALUE: 120Miniature copper automatons are very similar to their larger counterpart, the copper automaton.  They are magical statues of copper and bronze with numerous levers and gears churning inside of them all held together by magical enchantments.As they are creations, automatons look quite different from one another. Some have blocky bodies and long arms while others look more like small human knights. All of them are corroding and have blank eyes.The miniature versions are not as well made as the larger automatons and thus cannot manipulate objects very well.  However, a simple task like pulling a switch or turning a door knob is possible.Combat: Miniature copper automatons attack with their two metallic hands, clubbing or pinching with fair strength for 1 to 4 points of damage per limb. They do not share the heat-generating abilities of their larger versions.The automatons can only be healed, or repaired, by the combined efforts of a wizard of at least 6th-level and a well-trained smith. With this team, the automaton recovers 1 to 8 hit points per day. Once killed, or destroyed, the automaton may not be rebuilt.Habitat/Society: Miniature copper automatons are the creations of wizards not powerful enough to create larger automatons, or not desiring to pay the additional expenses for them. Upon inception, and changeable at any time thereafter, the mage gives the mass of clinking parts a simple task to carry out. Some are used to stand guard over the tombs of  their dead masters, others patrol dungeons warding against intruders, and some are used as slave labor doing the most simple, but laborious work. They perform any service within their limited mental grasp.The method of forming a miniature automaton is not a well-kept secret. Any wizard of at least 6th-level with 2,000 gold pieces can build one. The whole process takes about two weeks, and requires copper ore, iron gears, lead counterweights and a gemstone worth at least 500 gold pieces to center the wizard’s magical energies. Also needed is half of an oil of slipperiness vial to keep the gears turning. Ecology: Miniature Copper Automatons need no food, no rest, no external energy source and no loving encouragement.  They are completely unnatural, with no niche in the ecological balance.Source: Al-Qadim: Genie's Curse, p. 49.</blockquote>

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