Hello everyone. I'm a PC in a Kingmaker campaign, and I'm trying to formulate my character's ambition.
It's a neutral good craftsman trying to make an intelligent construct because the character wishes to create "children" who would not suffer from a short lifespan like she did. I'm not intending these guys to be a possible playable PC race. I want to hold onto the concept that an intelligent construct would not be able to increase physical strength over time and experience, but would be able to improve in mental stats with effort. I don't want to do Warforged from Eberron. I am not creating these guys solely for combat and adventuring, and I as the creator want to see these guys be individuals and live out normal lives. I don't want them to come out cookie cutter, and my PC wants to teach the first one her trade so that they can decide whether or not to "procreate" on their own terms.
I am wanting to write them up as a stat block, though, in case they are used as defenses or some sort of storyline assassination attempt. Give the GM something to work with if he wishes. How should I approach writing them up? Should I treat them as a PC class and use VoodooMike's suggestions, think about a monstrous PC class that would show up in the Bestiary, or write it up as a standard monster with no chance of altering them as individuals? Any constructive remarks would be appreciated. Thank you.
If you are not going to make it a PC race, then keep it simple.
As they are "children" instead of hardcore warforged race, make a sort of halfing construct.
Start by working up the stats on a halfling Expert of about 3rd level, replacing bonuses to halfling skills with craft bonuses.
Then they go to the construct entry in the appendix of the Bestiary and apply that to what you have created already. (i.e. immunity to certain attacks, etc.)
Then add on some natural armor (metal skin), and describe it's personality and description of what you think it should look like.
You can let them grow (they are magical) to medium size and losing the penalty to str. They advance only in levels expert. So you could create a "family" where the oldest is say a 7th level expert and medium sized, and the youngest is a small sized 2nd level expert.
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You might check out the ironborn from Rite Publishing. That race is pretty similar in concept to what you are talking about down to the self crafting aspect.
I suspect you could easily adapt this to your needs.