Clockwork Prowler!

[Malag]

So I noticed there are no topics about this cool mini machine from PFS Field Guide which costs 500 gold pieces:

Clockwork Prowler:

This 2-foot-tall wooden clockwork automaton is shaped roughly like a short-backed, wheeled chair. When wound up with the folding handle at its side, the clockwork prowler trundles forward at a speed of 15 feet per round for up to 2 minutes. A clockwork prowler cannot move through difficult terrain. Each round of vigorous winding powers 2 rounds of movement. If its brake is not released immediately after winding, the prowler loses 1 round of movement for every 2 rounds it sits idle. The clockwork prowler can carry up to 20 pounds of weight at full speed, or up to 50 pounds at a speed of 10 feet. Higher weights prevent the prowler from moving. A clockwork prowler has hardness 5 and 90 hit points, and when in motion has AC 12 (a motionless clockwork prowler has AC 5).

There is also an advanced version with more hardness and a whooping 150 hit points. These little guys can sure take some beating and the best and only use that I can think off for them is to trigger traps with them and simply mend them after trap encounter.

What other uses there might be for these little guys?

[Malag]

Small bump.

[Malag]

Bump for last time!

[MrSin]

Malag wrote:

What other uses there might be for these little guys?

You named its use. Unless you load it with something like bombs I guess. Its a little slow and you don't have much control over it. Personally I'll stick to my wand of mount and wand of Summon Monster, which are much more expendable and give slightly more control.

[JKalts]

While I'm sure there are some more creative uses for these, I can't think of any at this time that a (un)willing person or summon couldn't do as well or better.

[ohako]

50lbs...halflings can ride the thing.

You could cast animate objects on it, if you wanted.

You could in theory combine it with twine double for absolutely no effect whatsoever.

You could attach a rope to one corner of it, and make it turn a corner.

You could cast light on it.

Since it's made of clockwork, you could conceivably attach alchemical trigger items to it (because there's a big spring that powers the thing). Make it set off a thunderstone every round?

Hmm, this thing takes in rotational movement (at a rate of something like 1 foot^2 * pi/6 seconds) (by the way, useable by something with Strength 1), and provides 30 ft * 25 lbs. forward movement. This non-magical object probably violates conservation of energy, so you could build a factory out of these things, by putting them on treadmills or something.

Again, it's non-magical, so you could in theory build a larger (or smaller) version of it.

You could make a custom patch for a robe of useful objects with it.

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

I think you'd be better off just rolling a wagon wheel or something.