We are playing the kingmaker campaign. I had a ninja/assassin that I was playing but I got him killed, so now I am playing an dwarf Artificer converted over from Eberron in 3.5.
The basic persona I am shooting for with my artificer is kind of a "steampunk mad scientist". It is working amazingly in this campaign as it is very high-wealth and has a good bit of downtime to use for crafting.
I want to make lots of constructs and use them as both RP fluff and practical offense/defense but with the feel of the character I don't want to make just general constructs, I want them to primarily be clockwork. So far the only clockwork constructs I have found are the steed, leviathan, goliath, spy, soldier, and mender.
Now for my question:
Where can I find more clockwork constructs or machines? I want things like clockwork vehicles, gear, machines, and constructs, basically if it has gears and whirly-magigs I want it.
Our GM is allowing Pathfinder and 3.5 content, no homebrew or 3rd party.
Thank you for your help.
...Also any advise or lowering crafting costs?
I currently have:
Discounts
Eldritch Smith trait 5%
Hedge Magician trait 5%
Extraordinary Artisan (Eberron) 25%
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35% discount on magic creations made of metal or stonethen with gear I restrict it to the class:
class restriction 30%
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65% discount on magic gear made of metal or stone
Since this discount applied to the base price in addition to the 50% discount from crafting would be negative, our GM judged that the additional discounts would apply to the crafting cost (50% of base cost).
So in the end I pay 17.5% of the base cost on magic gear made of metal or stone and 32.5% of the base cost on constructs made of metal or stone.
Once again, pathfinder or 3.5 content, no homebrew or 3rd party.
Anyone?
Sorry all the good clockwork stuff I know is third party, the the clockwork creature template from the Advanced Bestiary (even paizo has used the Advanced Bestiary)
I believe the template for clockwork construct is in the inner sea world guide. Its apparently related to thassilon. Presumably they were I troduced in one of the Ap in varisia.
Given king maker takes place so close to numeria you could ask about robots..
Thank you. I will defiantly look in to that. That would work perfect, a template to make almost anything clockwork!
Anybody have any suggestions about lowered cost?
Lowered costs? You're lucky your GM is allowing all this crazy stuff in! 17.5% or 32.5% if you want to make something out of not STONE or METAL. We could go find all of the constructs that aren't made of metal or stone in a few minutes. Point I'm trying to make is people would kill to get crafting costs this low for just about anything else. If you want it to be lower ask if the crazy feats(3.5 I have no idea where they are I just know they exist) for reducing cost or time are available your character.
You can find the Paizo's version of clockwork template here.