Awakened golem (How can a construct that gets feats and skills not see its CR increase?)


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


From RotRL and RotRL aniversary edition, the Scarecrow's (Skinsaw Murders) CR is different. Both use the Lifespark Construct template from Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary.

The anniversary edition doesn't add any level to the CR of the flesh golem and it doesn't get the Open Mind ability, but the original edition does.

How can a construct get feats and skills, and not see its CR increase?


When you add a template or a class level(s) to a creature, sometimes the numbers you get are lower or higher than what the norm for a CR is. So you have to adjust the CR to what it'd properly be. Chances are, adding the Lifespark Construct template was too good (or not good enough), so the CR was changed accordingly.


There is no drawback to the anniverary edition golem. He gets Int, Cha, skills and feats and all the immunities a regular golem gets (immuned to mind-affecting effects), and his CR stays the same. I'm confuzzled.

I could understand that the CR stays the same if the golem got the two original drawbacks of the Lifespark Construct template, but there are no drawbacks here. Just bonus feats and skills and the ability to take class levels.

In Classic Horrors Revisited, the template is sort of mentioned with the Open Mind (vulnerable to mind-affecting spells) drawback added (absent from RotRL anniversary edition), but no CR adjustment is mentioned.

Maybe it is a HD thing. Like 10 HD or less +0 to CR, 11 to 20 HD +1 to CR.

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