Wood Golem Ritual

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Through this Ritual of 4 ATs casting Time, the practitioner is able to animat and control by verbal or mental command a creature of wood. The golem must.have been built and shaped of hard wood by the caster. and Its wood must be of the finest. quality. (Lumber cost is not included in Special Materia Cost.) It can be human-shaped or so form. as to resemble an animal. but it performs in the same manner in either case. The golem has a low intelligence. and acts primarily at the direction of the persona who created it. The alchemist can give it detail. oral instructions to follow, and the golem will perform with relative ability equal to about half the casters own in most cases. The operator has a Mental Link with the golem, and can give it simple mental commands, thus. This is dangerous, though. because it makes the operator susceptible to any Mental Link directed at the golem. The creature can range as far distant from its operator as the caster has STEEP points in furlongs. The duration of Time of Effect can be altered from months to years through prior laying of an Enchantment Casting. The golem's Initiative is +5. and it moves at a rate of six feet per CT when in motion. This can be modified to 2 at slow or 12 at fastest rate of speed possible, 18 feet if the golem is four-legged. It attacks at a BAC of 25. but. with a weapon can add the Weapon Factor to this percentage chance. Base PD without use of a weapon is 4D3 Blunt. with one attack pot CT possible. A Wood Golem possesses 80 Physical damage points. plus 10% of the alchemist's STEEP in Agriculture, Construction, and Sculpture as an addition to the P TRAIT. The golem has the following (base) TRAIT scores: