The Colossus

In the final days of the Cataclysm Wars, when three civilizations fought for dominion over a dying world, the greatest engineers of the Old Kingdoms forged The Colossus as a last desperate measure—a towering sentinel of destruction powered by a captured neutron star compressed into its chest cavity, its consciousness networked with a thousand military minds now long extinct. For seven centuries it marched across continents, its footfalls reshaping geography and its weapons reducing entire cities to ash, until a peace was suddenly declared through means lost to history, leaving The Colossus abandoned mid-patrol on a barren plain where rust and time have slowly consumed its frame. Yet the neutron heart beats still, its radioactive core refusing to surrender to entropy, driving ancient hydraulics and corroded servos to continue their eternal march through empty wastelands, still firing at phantom enemies that no longer exist, still crushing the bleached bones of those who fell beneath its tread millennia ago. The machine remembers nothing but combat protocols and the ghosts of its creators' voices, now mere static in its degraded processors, compelling it onward through an endless war that ended before human civilization even learned to write. Some say that The Colossus searches still for its commanders, others claim it is merely the universe's cruelest joke—a monument to mankind's capacity for destruction, forever trapped between life and death, too stubborn to fall, too damaged to ever truly rest.

Strength

30, modifier +10

Dexterity

10, modifier +0

Constitution

20, modifier +5

Intelligence

5, modifier -3

Wisdom

10, modifier +0

Charisma

1, modifier -5

Crushing Blow

Melee Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 4d12 + 10 bludgeoning damage.

Artillery Barrage

Ranged Attack: +10 to hit, range 300 ft., one target. Hit: 6d10 + 10 force damage. Reload: 1 turn.

Ground Shaker

Each creature within 30 ft. must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or take 3d10 bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone.

Phantom Fire

The Colossus fires a beam of energy in a 60 ft. line. Each creature must make a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d10 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Ancient Sentinel

The Colossus has advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed.

Nuclear Core

The Colossus is immune to poison and radiation damage.

strength

+10

constitution

+10

bludgeoning

piercing

slashing