The Gold Guardian


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One of my PC's in my homebrew campaign is a witch conceived by an important demon of greed.

As her "personal objective" she wants to accumulate 100.000 GP and make "the biggest sacrifice the world has ever seen" to her father.

I feel the expectations are very high, giving her very strong boons wouldn't be sufficient and giving her too much power would be unfair to the other PC's, so i wandered through the first party content looking for an inspiration and found This.

The spell mentions a "gold guardian", i looked through the bestiary and online and couldn't find anything that is first party but i managed to find this sheet that i could use instead.
I wonder if someone there knows which sheet should i use by RAW.

My current plan is getting them to perform the ritual during a siege, that way i can meet expectations by giving the witch a spotlight (and some permanent bonuses) and make everybody happy for it

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I can't find the specific stats anywhere online, but the animate hoard the spell creates is on page 68 of Council of Thieves 6 - The Twice-damned Prince. It's an advanced animated object.

The animated object is not particularly strong and will fade away with time, so it seems like a decent thing to give her that wouldn't unbalance the game.


give her a +8 HD Stone Golem with the Advanced Template and let it be her familiar and also made of gold. That's worth about 100k and would be a pretty sweet boon


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yukongil wrote:
give her a +8 HD Stone Golem with the Advanced Template and let it be her familiar and also made of gold. That's worth about 100k and would be a pretty sweet boon

How about a CR ~13 Fiend-Infused Irespan Basalt Stone Golem... it is immune to its own Berserk Liberation as long as the Witch is alive, and immediately goes Berserk if she ever dies. The Witch is immune to its Hellfire Touch and Slow effects. Let the Witch communicate with it, or at least command it. And have it be able to transform into a figurine for transport... maybe have it only "useable" a number of minutes per day equal to the Witch's HD... then it turns back into a little figurine.


The animate hoard in Tombs of Golarion should be what you're looking for. I don't see it in an online source. It's a huge CR 9 construct that's immune to crits and precision damage, has an aura that causes people to try and take shiny things from it instead of attacking

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ErichAD wrote:
The animate hoard in Tombs of Golarion should be what you're looking for. I don't see it in an online source. It's a huge CR 9 construct that's immune to crits and precision damage, has an aura that causes people to try and take shiny things from it instead of attacking

Yeah, I'd use this one. It looks like a reprint of the one from the Council of Thieves AP. They are exactly the same except the one in Tombs of Golarion has the avarice aura.

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