Clockwork Armature
- Armor Class
- 1 [18]
- Hit Dice
- 10
- Attacks
- Blade leg or red ray (1d6+2)
- Special
- steam cone 5d8, fire resistance, double damage from electricity
- Move
- 12
- HDE/XP
- 11/1,700
Description
The Clockwork Armature is a contraption that combines magical and mechanical arts. It resembles an oblate armored sphere. It is a massive forty-foot tall bronze device that has four segmented, blade-tipped legs extending out from a recessed band around the middle of its body, through which cogs, weights, and pulleys can be seen.
A long serpentine neck extends from the front topped by a single flat glowing "eye" surrounded by three polished brass nozzles. The armature can fire a ray of blazing red energy from its "eye" at a single target with a range of 120 feet, doing 1d6+2 points of damage. Every five rounds, the armature can also vent steam from the nozzles surrounding the "eye" in a 60-foot long cone, for 5d8 points of damage (half on a successful saving throw). The armature also slashes with the blades on its front legs, for 1d6+2 points of damage.
The armature takes only half damage from fire-based attacks. However, electrical-based attacks (like Lightning Bolt, etc.) interfere with the delicate, metal interior components, causing double damage.
If the head is recovered from a defeated armature, there is a 50% chance of finding an undamaged, engraved bronze cylinder, with a flat, glowing red lens at one end; this cylinder is what produces the armatures energy ray. If retrieved, it can be aimed by hand for the same 1d6+2 damage effect as it had as the armature’s "eye". The cylinder will have 2d12 charges remaining, and 2d6 charges may be regained by striking it with a Lightning Bolt.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.