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To bring up another topic, it seems strange to me that no one suspects that Caromac is the Beast's creator. Clearly many in Lepidstadt would know that the Beast is a flesh golem that must have a creator. It seems unlikely that Caromac could so thoroughly have concealed his long-term experimentations -- especially since he has been bringing in outside workers to build up the Castle. The brilliant recluse in the castle with a grudge on all of Vieland seems like a pretty obvious suspect. How have other GM's handled this? My PCs have been asking around to find out if any one has any suspicions about who the Beast's creator is; I'm feeling a little silly saying no one has any idea.

Have you read Rule of Fear? It states that Henri Moritz is believed to have created the Beast. He was involved in the peaceful uprising against Caromarc back in the day. The Beast was created as a tool of Caromarc's revenge, so I find it safe to say he used it to kill Moritz. (Not sure if that's outright stated somewhere.)

I decided he was a scientist too, and I had people tell my group the first time the Beast was seen was when it ran from Moritz' house, where his body and a weird laboratory was found, so everyone figured he created the mad monstrosity and it killed him. I had Kendra go on and on how disappointed everyone was one of the leaders of the democratic movement turned out to be a crazy monster creator.

My players are making a big deal of the Beast's injuries, and even pointed out in court that a Flesh Golem is made of dead parts and doesn't have a blood circuit, so it can't have been the creature the swampers saw, that was hurt by the gator and whose blood tainted the burial ground.

I thought this was clever, and considered it correct, but is it really?

One of their theories is that it might be the Beast committing the crimes, but while under someone's control. They've been really interested in its supposed creator, Dr. Henri Moritz, and even assume he might be undead and still giving it orders - and that he, being undead, might be in league with the WW. I'm starting to like this idea better than the real premise.

Anyway, because of this, they think it possible the Beast was in Morast and got attacked by the gator, but its master healed it. They've been thinking a lot about what it would take to heal a flesh golem, and have been watching the wounds it got from the guards torturing it carefully. And I'm at a loss there. I know Flesh Golems are immune to spells that allow SR, but that electrical damage heals them. Does this apply to the Beast too? And do flesh golems, does the Beast, regain HP naturally, just over time?

First, be really sure he's doing it. Sometimes players just get things right. Observe the situation and see if he does it all the time without getting some things very wrong.

If you are sure, talk to him. Tell him to stop. Make up your mind how much slack you want to cut him. That he feels a need to do this probably means he's very insecure and is desperate to "win" or feel important, so you might want to give him another chance. But you can't force him to grow as a person, and a roleplaying group isn't some kind of therapy where you have to work around one individual's problems at the expense of everyone else. And if you want to give him another chance, he first has to admit to it. If he doesn't, if he refuses to change, kick him. It's not worth it to put such a burden on the whole group.

Do not change things. You've got one guy who for whatever reasons feels a need to cheat and potentially ruin the game for the whole group, do not take the submissive approach of doing extra work (and potentially lessening the fun for the whole group or at least you) to work around this. Not that it would help you in the long run, he would find other ways to mess with the game.