SOTDL:Automatons - Revision history

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 ==War Machines==
 While some tinkerers sought to remove people from the unenviable position of heavy labor, others toiled to change the shape of the battlefield. They envisioned legions of gleaming metal soldiers arranged in neat rows, marching into a bloodless carnage while their controllers watched from afar. The reality has been far from this utopian vision. Designing machines that kill has long been easier than making machines that work, and from the beginning these murderous machines have been highly effective relative to conventional soldiers. Baroque in construction and expensive in the extreme, war machines rarely fight one another, instead they are more often deployed against flesh and blood soldiers. Unlike the original artificers' vision of clean and orderly combat, this has always resulted in horrific injuries and messy deaths for the conventional troops. War machines rarely lose, but at the same time their heightened degree of independence and more complex design leads to them going haywire at higher rates than other automatons. A war machine that has gone rogue can be extremely dangerous, and oftentimes their irresponsible owners simply let them go rather than risk other investments to destroy them.
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			==Automatons==

			===Hands of Iron===
			For as long as artificers have been building automatons they have sought ways to remove the tedium and danger of manual labor with their creations. A wild array of variously useful designs were constructed, tested and discarded along the road to creating the artificial laborer. It took many years before artificers moved on from creating a general-purpose artificial person to building specialized designs that were engineered to fulfill just a few roles. These automatons were expensive to create and maintain, and remained the purview of wealthy groups doing work too dangerous or detestable for disposable living workforces. In many cases, the owners of these automatons met with untimely ends and their machines mindlessly continue their work still, their mechanical minds, never that complex, slowly degrading and making them dangerous to those who stumble upon them.

			====Driller====
			The driller is an exceptionally simple design. A bulky, humanoid body is employed so that it may easily manipulate existing mining gear. One arm ends in a humanoid gripper, while the other terminates in a large drill. Typically found either drilling into rock or pushing loads of ore on minecarts, drillers have uncomplicated minds and follow extremely simple commands. They can, due to deterioration or misuse, be ordered into combat, where their drill arm can be used as a dangerous weapon that causes grievous, deep wounds.

	{{SOTDL/Creature		{{SOTDL/Creature
	\| creature name =~~Tin Man~~		\| creature name =Driller
	\| difficulty = 10		\| difficulty = 10
	\| size = 1		\| size = 1
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			====Oreseeker====
			A small and simple automaton, the oreseeker, as its namesake suggests, seeks out ore and processes it on site. Roughly a foot in diameter, standing upon four thick metal legs, this machine's underside opens up to reveal a set of grinding teeth that the oreseeker uses to pulverize rock and ore. Mounted on the oreseeker's back is a small harpoon gun. Using the harpoon gun to scale vertical surfaces or to reach distant ore seams, the oreseeker then uses its grinder to process the ore for collection by other automatons. If directed to fight, the oreseeker simply replicates this process on its enemies, spearing them with the harpoon gun, attaching to their body, and then applying its grinding mechanism to their form.

	{{SOTDL/Creature		{{SOTDL/Creature
	\| creature name =~~Orebot~~		\| creature name =Oreseeker
	\| difficulty =5		\| difficulty =5
	\| size = 1/2		\| size = 1/2
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	{{SOTDL/Feature\|Zap\|(melee) +4 (1d6+1 damage)}}		{{SOTDL/Feature\|Zap\|(melee) +4 (1d6+1 damage)}}
	{{SOTDL/Feature\|Harpoon\|(short range) +2 with 1 boon (1d6 damage plus Attach)}}		{{SOTDL/Feature\|Harpoon\|(short range) +2 with 1 boon (1d6 damage plus Attach)}}
	{{SOTDL/Feature\|Attach\|The target must make an Agility challenge roll with 1 bane. On a failure, the ~~orebot~~ attaches itself to them. They are slowed, and when they move the ~~orebot~~ is moved with them. The affected creature or an adjacent ally can make a Strength challenge roll to remove the ~~orebot~~, placing it in an adjacent space.}}		{{SOTDL/Feature\|Attach\|The target must make an Agility challenge roll with 1 bane. On a failure, the oreseeker attaches itself to them. They are slowed, and when they move the oreseeker is moved with them. The affected creature or an adjacent ally can make a Strength challenge roll to remove the oreseeker, placing it in an adjacent space.}}
	\| special attacks =		\| special attacks =
	{{SOTDL/Feature\|Grind\|The ~~orebot~~ deals 2d6 damage to a target it is attached to.}}		{{SOTDL/Feature\|Grind\|The oreseeker deals 2d6 damage to a target it is attached to.}}
	\| special actions =		\| special actions =
	\| magic =		\| magic =

Fuego Fish at 01:02, 19 July 2019

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			[[Category:SOTDL Monsters\|Automatons]]

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{{SOTDL/Creature
| creature name =Tin Man
| difficulty = 10
| size = 1
| frightening =
| descriptor =automaton
| special =
| perception = 5 (-5)
| special senses =darksight
| defense = 13
| armor =
| health = 25
| strength = 13 (+3)
| agility = 9 (-1)
| intellect = 5 (-5)
| will = 11 (+1)
| speed =10
| special movement =
| immune =damage from disease or poison; asleep, charmed, diseased, fatigued, frightened, poisoned
| additional features =
| attack options =
{{SOTDL/Feature|Fist|(melee) +3 (2d6 damage)}}
{{SOTDL/Feature|Drill|(melee) +3 (1d6 damage [plus Puncture])}}
{{SOTDL/Feature|Puncture|The target must make an Agility challenge roll. On a failure, it takes 1d6 damage and becomes impaired. If the target is already impaired, it instead takes 1d6 extra damage. The creature may take an action to end the impaired affliction. Healing any amount of damage also ends the impaired affliction.}}
| special attacks =
| special actions =
| magic =
| end of the round =
}}

{{SOTDL/Creature
| creature name =Orebot
| difficulty =5
| size = 1/2
| frightening =
| descriptor =automaton
| special =
| perception = 5 (-5)
| special senses =darksight
| defense = 14
| armor =
| health = 12
| strength = 14 (+4)
| agility = 12 (+2)
| intellect = 5 (-5)
| will = 11 (+1)
| speed =10
| special movement =climber
| immune =damage from disease or poison; asleep, charmed, diseased, fatigued, frightened, poisoned
| additional features =
| attack options =
{{SOTDL/Feature|Zap|(melee) +4 (1d6+1 damage)}}
{{SOTDL/Feature|Harpoon|(short range) +2 with 1 boon (1d6 damage plus Attach)}}
{{SOTDL/Feature|Attach|The target must make an Agility challenge roll with 1 bane. On a failure, the orebot attaches itself to them. They are slowed, and when they move the orebot is moved with them. The affected creature or an adjacent ally can make a Strength challenge roll to remove the orebot, placing it in an adjacent space.}}
| special attacks =
{{SOTDL/Feature|Grind|The orebot deals 2d6 damage to a target it is attached to.}}
| special actions =
| magic =
| end of the round =
}}