Survivor 5e Constructs: STONE GOLEM WINS!

[CleverNickName]

Okay. I'm starting to wonder .... WHAT IS UP WITH ANIMATED ARMOR, YO?

It's my favorite. Animated Armor is a versatile monster that can be adapted to fit a variety of campaign settings and locations. They look right at home just about anywhere: an ancient ruin, the royal palace, the Temple of Dawn, a dragon hoard, a wizard's tower, a fire giant's stronghold. Is it treasure? Is it a trap? Is it a monster? Is it all three!? I also like the Helmed Horror for all these same reasons, but I'm upvoting the armor first because it's first in alphabetical order.

Compare them to the others on the list: hulking masses of random material that stick out like sore thumbs everywhere, and telegraph to to players from 300 feet away that combat is about to happen. Or the weird extraplanar robots that require a contrived story to make sense no matter what you do with them.

 

[slobster]

Compare them to the others on the list: hulking masses of random material that stick out like sore thumbs everywhere, and telegraph to to players from 300 feet away that combat is about to happen. Or the weird extraplanar robots that require a contrived story to make sense no matter what you do with them.

Stone and iron golems at least can just look like statues. I consider myself to have failed as GM if my players don't treat anything that even looks like a statue as though it were about to jump out of its alcove and start crushing their faces.

I mean not that there's anything wrong with the occasional hulking mass that telegraphs combat from 300 feet away!

I do love me some animated armor though. My favorite trick is to let a PC try on the suit of armor that radiates magic BEFORE having it come to life and start trying to murder people...

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Animated Armor 14
Flesh Golem 10-2= 8
Flying Sword 1
Helmed Horror 20
Iron Golem 19
Shield Guardian 22+1= 23
Steel Predator 11
Stone Golem 17

 

[DragonBelow]

Animated Armor 14
Flesh Golem 8
Flying Sword 1
Helmed Horror 20
Iron Golem 19
Shield Guardian 24
Steel Predator 11
Stone Golem 15

 

[Tonguez]

Animated Armor 14
Flesh Golem 9
Failing Sword 0
Helmed Horror 20
Iron Golem 19
Shield Guardian 24
Steel Predator 11
Stone Golem 15

 

[Undrave]

Animated Armor 15
Flesh Golem 9
Helmed Horror 20
Iron Golem 17
Shield Guardian 24
Steel Predator 11
Stone Golem 15

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

Animated Armor 15
Flesh Golem 10
Helmed Horror 20
Iron Golem 17
Shield Guardian 22
Steel Predator 11
Stone Golem 15

 

[Son of the Serpent]

thinking about animated armor, i had a junji-ito level horror campaign idea:

entire kingdom has done to it what happened to the castle in beauty and the beast fairy tale (no beast and no girl though. not a necessary part of this idea)

all the people have been turned into objects, and have replaced said objects in serving relevant related purposes and jobs. so it looks like an entire kingdom of enchanted objects which are of course really people polymorphed by some sort of epic level mass polymorph effect.

but what happened to (and where went) all of those objects that were around before the people and animals were transformed? you're not going to tell me that all these people lived in this place with not a single furnishing in the land are you? what exactly became of those...and...why don't we see any of them?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Animated Armor 16
Flesh Golem 8 bye bye frankenstein
Helmed Horror 20
Iron Golem 17
Shield Guardian 22
Steel Predator 11
Stone Golem 15

 

[Imaculata]

I used an Animated Armor as recent as my last session, where it was able to talk to the players and challenge them to a duel of any kind, if they wished to cross a bridge. One of the players challenged it to a singing contest... The Animated Armor won that one however.

It wasn't until they had all beaten the Animated Armor, that it took off its helmet and revealed no head underneath.