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Juggernaut

The heavy suit of mechanical metal armor a juggernaut wears is custom-built and highly complex and specialized to its wearer. Other creatures can't make use of the armor unless they have similar skill and customize it thoroughly.

Recall Knowledge - Humanoid (Society): DC 36
Unspecific Lore: DC 34
Specific Lore: DC 31

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Proficiency without Level

JuggernautCreature 13

Rare Large Human Humanoid 
Source NPC Core pg. 49
Perception +21; darkvision
Languages Common
Skills Athletics +27, Crafting +26, Engineering Lore +24, Intimidation +26
Str +8, Dex +3, Con +4, Int +2, Wis +2, Cha +2
Integrated Weapon A juggernaut's armor includes one integrated melee weapon, such as a diamond-tipped rotary saw blade, massive pneumatic drill, or heavy spiked gauntlet. The specifics don't change the damage dealt by its Strikes, but determines whether it deals bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. A juggernaut with tools and a workshop can spend 2 hours to swap their armor's integrated weapon.
Power Source Juggernaut armor requires a power source built into the armor—such as a steam boiler, Stasian coil, or alchemical reservoir. This determines a damage type—cold, electricity, fire, or poison—for certain abilities.
Items artisan's toolkit (blacksmithing), juggernaut armor, repair toolkit
AC 33; Fort +25, Ref +19, Will +21
HP 250; Resistances galvanized plating
Galvanized Plating The juggernaut has resistance 10 to the damage type of the armor's power source.Self-Destruct [reaction] Trigger The juggernaut is reduced to 0 Hit Points; Effect The juggernaut collapses and their armor emits a steady ticking sound. At the beginning of what would have been the juggernaut's next turn, the armor's power source explodes, destroying it completely and dealing 10d6 damage in a 30-foot emanation with a DC 33 basic Reflex save. The explosion deals the damage type of the armor's power source. An adjacent creature can cancel the self-destruct sequence by succeeding at a DC 31 Thievery check to Disable a Device.
Speed 20 feet
Melee [one-action] integrated weapon +27 [+22/+17], Damage 3d8+12 and see integrated weaponMelee [one-action] plated fist +27 [+22/+17], Damage 3d4+14 bludgeoningEnergy Projector [two-actions] (alchemical) A juggernaut carries a powerful cannon-like projectile weapon that requires two hands to wield and deals 14d6 damage to all creatures in its area with a DC 31 basic save; the damage type, area, and save are based on the armor's power source, as listed below. Once activated, Energy Projector can't be used again for 1d4 rounds.
  • Cold 30-foot cone of cold (Reflex)
  • Electricity 60-foot line of electricity (Reflex)
  • Fire 30-foot cone of fire (Reflex)
  • Poison 30-foot cone of poison gas (Fortitude)
Jump Jets [one-action] (alchemical) The juggernaut gains a Fly speed of 15 feet until the end of their current turn. If the juggernaut isn't on solid ground when they lose their fly Speed, they fall. After the effect ends, the juggernaut can't use Jump Jets again for 1 round.Trample [three-actions] Medium or smaller, plated fist, DC 33

Sidebar - Additional Lore Juggernaut Rumors

Legend has it that the first suit of juggernaut armor was built by a brilliant but misanthropic inventor who leveled his own workshop before embarking on a spree of indiscriminate destruction. Though the rampage quickly came to an end when his creation crashed through a wooden floor and became trapped in a basement, the story has inspired a new generation of machinists to diligently refine and improve on the original design.

All Monsters in "Engineer"

NameLevel
Artillerist3
Demolitionist4
Driver2
Dynamo8
Gadgeteer6
Gunsmith1
Juggernaut13
Mechanic1
Rocketeer6
Toymaker3

Engineer

Source NPC Core pg. 42
Although relatively uncommon across much of Golarion, the frequently eccentric but undeniably brilliant minds who create elaborate devices of clockwork, gunpowder, and steam often loom much larger in the public eye than their numbers would suggest.

Engineering Device Malfunctions

When making an attack or activating an ability granted by a mechanical device that has been poorly maintained or is of shoddy construction, an engineer must attempt a DC 5 flat check after making the relevant attack roll or skill check. On a failure, the action is lost and the device misfires spectacularly (roll on the Device Malfunctions table). A device misfire doesn't affect the amount of time that must pass before some abilities can be used again.

Device Malfunctions

d6Effect
1Fizzle The device jams or short-circuits. If the triggering action was an attack, it retroactively becomes a critical failure. The engineer must use an Interact action to reset the device before it can be used again.
2 Backfire The device violently explodes, disabling it and dealing 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 2 levels the engineer has in a 5-foot burst centered on the device. The device is broken until the engineer Repairs it.
3 Off-Target If the triggering action was a targeted attack, the attack instead targets another creature (other than the engineer) within 10 feet of the intended target, determined randomly by the GM. If no such target exists, the attack misses.
4 System Reset A burst of feedback momentarily shuts down all the engineer's devices. The engineer can't use attacks or abilities granted by any personal engineering device, potentially including movement speeds, until the start of their next turn.
5 Overheat The overstressed device generates a wave of intense heat. The device burns the engineer for 4d6 fire damage and 2d4 persistent fire damage, with a basic Reflex save. The DC is equal to the engineer's Fortitude DC. The engineer can Release the item before rolling to improve their degree of success on the save by one step.
6 Delayed Reaction The device fails to function, having no apparent effect. At the start of the engineer's next turn, the device automatically activates. The GM chooses any target or area at random.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Brigh

On Golarion, science and magic coexist, and many engineers worship Brigh, the deity of clockwork, invention, and time. She's often invoked when an inventor needs inspiration or is on the clock and needs the next few hours to go slower. Often, engineers engrave small icons of Brigh's religious symbol—a mask in her likeness.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Crossover Ancestry NPCs

Several of the NPCs elsewhere in NPC Core can fit well in this group: Goblin scavenger (level 4), kobold trapper (level 2)

Sidebar - Advice and Rules Firearms

Multiple engineers use firearms, technology that's present in relatively small numbers on Golarion. These are uncommon, simple, and martial weapons, so many player characters can use them. If you want to avoid putting the items in their hands, swap out the firearms with crossbow or similar weapons. More firearms and the gunslinger class appear in Pathfinder Guns & Gears.

Sidebar - Advice and Rules Gadgets For PCs

Since engineers often carry unique gadgets, your player characters will likely want to salvage and reuse those items. If you want to do this in your games, you can either let them use the items primarily as written or convert them into consumable gadgets. In any case, these items are typically unstable when salvaged, usable once to a few times or subject to misfires.

Sidebar - Related Creatures Mechanical Allies

Often, engineers are accompanied by mechanical creatures of their own creation, like clockwork hounds or mechanical birds. To build encounters including such creatures, you can either adapt an existing construct (such as an animated object) or change an animal's trait to construct and give it immunity to bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, nonlethal attacks, paralyzed, poison, sickened, spirit, unconscious, vitality, and void. You might want to reduce its HP slightly to compensate.

Sidebar - Advice and Rules Misfires

Firearms that are improperly maintained or subjected to unusual strain can misfire. If a creature attempts to fire a firearm that was fired the previous day or earlier and hasn't been cleaned since, it rolls a DC 5 flat check before making its attack roll. If it fails this misfire check, the weapon misfires and jams. The attack is an automatic critical failure, and a creature must use an Interact action to clear the jam before the weapon can be reloaded and fired again. Once a creature has spent at least an hour cleaning a weapon, no one needs to roll for a misfire for that weapon until the next day unless an effect says otherwise.