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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FANGO" data-source="post: 367628" data-attributes="member: 2368"><p>The problem with the colossus is that a character must virtually be designed to kill it, and otherwise nearly any character will be utterly destroyed unless they're much higher level or very very lucky.  Remember that the antimagic field goes out 100 feet, so digging holes beneath it is a no-no.  You could just try to do large amount of damage to it and hope to nickel and dime it down, but youre going to have to do a hell of a lot of hp damage, and don't go banking on critical hits (or any magical equipment you happen to have) to help you out, either.  When talking about this with a fellow player of mine, we could only think of two ways to reliably beat the DR of a colossus...either an epic forsaker (or a nonepic one with 11/+5 DR and the penetrate DR feat), or a sacred fist with a pretty good base wis score.  Add to that the techsmith ability, and thats only 3 ways that I've heard of in the whole game that can actually beat their DR.  Of course, there are other ways to get around the DR, antimagic field, whatever (that ghaele thing...), but they're all pretty contrived.  The point is, any normal party of 33rd level will most likely not be reasonably equipped to fight an iron colossus, even with time to prepare...not to mention that I hardly think that a colossus will just stand there while he gets shot at from 100 feet away, and keep in mind that breath weapon is pretty damn nasty.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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