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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 4704805" data-attributes="member: 4722">I just finished the stone colossus, using UK's rules. This thing is insane:Stone ColossusTitanic ConstructHit Dice: 120d10+110 (770 hp)Initiative: -3Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)(can't run) Armor Class: 87 (–12 size, –3 Dex, +102 natural), touch 0, flat-footed 90Base Attack/Grapple: +90/+146Attack: Slam +114 melee (4d6+36)Full Attack: 2 slams +114 melee (4d6+36)Space/Reach: 45 ft./70 ft.Special Attacks: ShatterSpecial Qualities: Construct traits, DR 30/adamantine, magic immunitySaves: Fort +56, Ref +53, Will +56Abilities: Str 72, Dex 5, Con –, Int -, Wis 10, Cha 1Skills: --Feats: Awesome Blow(B)Environment: Any Organization: Solitary ECL: Treasure: None Alignment: Usually neutralAdvancement: 121–240 HD (Titanic); 241-360 HD (Macro-Fine)A stone colossus cannot speak or make any vocal noise. It stands about 70 feet tall and weighs about 1,500 tons.Combat  Shatter (Su): A stone colossus can use shatter (DC 7) as a free action once every 2 rounds against an opponent's weapon or other item as a 30th-level caster. The DC is Charisma-based.  Magic Immunity (Ex): A stone colossus is immune to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance. In addition, certain spells and effects function differently against the creature, as noted below.  A transmute rock to mud spell slows it (as the slow spell) for 1 round, with no save, while transmute mud to rock heals all its lost hit points. A stone to flesh spell has no effect on a stone colossus.Construction  A stone colossus's body is chiseled from a single block of high-quality hard stone, such as granite, weighing at least 3,750 tons, which costs around 6,000,000 gp. Assembling the body requires a successful DC 60 Craft (sculpting) or Craft (stonemasonry) check.  CL Godlike; Geas/quest, wish, polymorph any object, shatter. Price Who the hell knows?? gpA few notes: You may notice I dropped the antimagic field. I felt that was serious overkill, and really contradictory - if it's in the center of an antimagic field, NO spells can affect it. Not to mention that constructs being immune to all spells except those that bypass SR is balanced; making them immune to all spells period is too much - all the PCs' magic items suddenly become dead weight, making them less than useless against a creature with 100+ HD and a 70-ft. reach.I used the density of granite to determine its weight. I found <a href="http://www.cribmaster.net/selection_guide/page1.php" target="_blank">this handy website</a> years ago when I was looking for material densities for some reason; by UK's 100/30/15 rule for humanoid size, that makes a golem 70 feet tall weigh 1,500 tons (this baby's solid, unlike the iron colossus). I tacked on 25% for the base size of the rock you'd need, then extrapolated the cost from the existing numbers - 375,000 pounds at 100K gp, which ended up being 7.5 million - and dropped 20%. The Craft DC for the MM golems appears to be around HD + 15%, but that would make this around DC 130, which is absurd. I'm sure it's a sliding scale (I'll sit down and figure it out some other time; I have plans to do clay, flesh, iron, and stone for all the UK golem sizes), but I guessed 50% would work.One thing I don't agree with is UK's DR rule for constructs. This would have DR 8/-, which is a little silly for such a huge being. Another thing I need to do: come up with a sliding scale for DR based on HD.The caster level is based on 1/4 HD. Normally it's 3/4 HD, but since the golem is unintelligent, it gets only 1/4. If you go with spell DCs as 10 + 1/2 CL + spell level, it becomes DC 27 - fairly respectable.</blockquote>

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