Tinker Automatons

A tinker’s automatons can fulfill whatever role the designer’s little heart desires. Mindless to the point of not even fighting back when attacked while in an idle state, however, automatons present a challenge to those who do not have the organizational skills necessary to order around a small squadron of followers.

Automatons are mindless, and thus gain neither skills nor feats. It is very important to note that automatons require programming to do every little thing that life takes for granted. As such, an automaton cannot make any skill checks untrained. Further, whenever an invention grants an automaton the ability to use a certain type of weapon, it is assumed that the deployment of the automaton provides it with a standard, non-masterwork example of that weapon. An automaton has no idea what to do with items, magical or otherwise, that are handed to it. As such, an automaton has no equipment slots and must make do with what it is deployed with, with the exception of having certain inventions, such as potion injectors, alchemical explosive compartments, and quivers, refilled by an ally.

*If HD increasing Innovations are used.

*Wakeup Call and Can We Help? can be acquired earlier than shown if the tinker invests in HD increasing Innovations.

Wakeup Call (Ex)

Upon reaching 2 hit dice, automatons gain a slight semblance of sentience and begin to show their own personality quirks rather than blank stares when idle.

Can We Help? (Ex)

Having watched the tinker do so many a time, upon reaching 4 hit dice, the automatons gain the ability to assist the tinker with his crafting. Whenever the tinker makes a Craft check, the automatons, of their own free will, mind you, bound forward and make Aid Another checks, even if they do not have a rank in the Craft skill being performed.