Monster Menagerie: Engines of Destruction by Sam Hing is a role playing game supplement published by Rogue Genius Games for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is part of the Monster Menagerie series of bestiaries.
This is available as a 14-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $3.99 but was purchased at a greatly reduced price as part of a special bundle. One page is the front cover and one the Credits and Open Game License.
The Foreword explains that the supplement contains a new range of constructs and golems of widely different CRs, with the intention being to provide monsters that are not simply unthinking statues. The monsters follow this, in most cases one to a page.
The Cactus Crawler – or Cactus Golem; both terms have been used, presumably by mistake – are made from cacti.
The Ceramic Soldier is a simple small construct that is normally made in batches.
The Gearwork Golem is a conglomeration of sharp masterwork gears of different sizes.
The Hide Golem is a fairly basic golem made from stitched together hides.
Golem Variants introduces two modifiers for existing golems, one to use it as a steed and another as a vault guardian.
The Prism Golem is made from crystal and use light as a weapon.
The Reefstalker is a golem made from shark jawbones.
The Rustmote Swarm is made from the remnants of rusting attacks.
The Still Golem is an animate distillery still.
Finally, the Void Golem is two pages long. It is intelligent and made using the knowledge of alien beings predating the gods, which remain its true master.
Monster Menagerie: Engines of Destruction in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and, although short, these would have been useful. Navigation is poor. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be mostly free of error. Each golem has what is presumably a black and white illustration of the monster, which is always appreciated. Presentation is good.
This supplement provides a range of golems that have a range of different uses, from less powerful creations of lower level wizards to far more dangerous things that can wreak a lot of destruction. With them being, except the void golem, creations of others, they of courser have little self-motivation. Monster Menagerie: Engines of Destruction is a nice collection of new construct types and it can be found by clicking here.
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