Movement: 60' (20')
Armor Class: 4
Hit Points: 210
Attacks: 1
Damage: by weapon as below
Save: L15
S: 25 I: 25 W: 20 D: 12 C: 23 CH: 11
Special Abilities: as an Olympian, and see below
Hephaistos is the chief engineer and technologist of the
Olympians. Unique among his people, his usual body is based on an extinct human
subspecies: neandthalensis. He walks
with a pronounced limp due to an old injury. His continued physical infirmity
and less attractive appearance despite the technology of his people likely say
something about his psychology. Hephaistos has a gruff demeanor and little time
for things that don’t engage his curiosity. While he's seldom cruel, he doesn't forget slights.
The forge god maintains a secret workshop within an undisclosed volcanic
mountain, though humans have identified many different mountains as its
location in folklore. He is attended at all times by four golden automata (treat as androids) of
unmistakably female form and aided in his experiments by the three elder cyclopes.
Hephaistos generally carries a hammer (actually an all-purpose tool) that can reconfigure as walking stick, sensor probe, cutting torch, and weapon (as light energized hammer: 4d6 damage; as energized war hammer: 7d6 damage; laser cutting torch: 5d6 damage, but close range only).
8 comments:
"Hephaistos generally carries a hammer (actually an all-purpose tool) that can be walking stick, sensor probe, cutting torch, and weapon"
That would be the grand-daddy of all magic item finds!
Old Hammer'n Heffy. After a few pints he loosens up and has a good time. He'll say, "I can make anything in this world or out, except a woman to love you and I'm working on that." He cracks me up.
@Chris - No doubt.
@Tim - He's a cut up!
Fembots but apart from that he sounds a little Irish!
Trey, have you read Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light?
@John - I haven't, though I'm familiar with it.
It might provide some good inspiration for a mythology of technological "gods", though it's quite different in tone. And it's a good read besides.
I'll have to check that out, then. Thanks.
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