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Races:
Soulmech

Soulmech Racial Traits

• +2 Strength, +2 Intelligence, -2 Dexterity, -2 Charisma: Soulmechs' robotic bodies are more powerful than humans' and their computer-assisted minds can store more information and process it more quickly and precisely. However, soulmechs often lack coordination and motor control, and they sometimes make organic beings uncomfortable.
• Base Hit Points: Soulmechs receive the base hit points for their robotic bodies before adding their first class level. All beginning soulmechs are Medium-size and gain 2d10 base hit points. The result of the dice roll is added to the characters' maximum hit points for their first class level.
• Medium-size: As Medium-size creatures, soulmechs have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size. Soulmechs who can afford it can upgrade to new robotic bodies of different sizes.
• A soulmech's base speed is 40 feet. A soulmech's robotic body is capable of moving extremely fast.
• Low-light Vision: Soulmechs can see twice as far as humans in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
• +2 racial bonus on Disable Device, Repair, and Use Device checks: Soulmechs have an innate understanding of machines.
• +4 racial bonus on Knowledge (mathematics): A soulmech's computerized mind can make calculations much more quickly and easily than an organic being's.
• -4 racial penalty on Swim checks: Soulmechs do not have significant air pockets in their robotic bodies, and they lack buoyancy as a result.
• Soulmechs have no sense of smell or taste, and they do not eat or drink.
• Soulmechs do not breathe.
• Immunity to necromantic or death effects that require or target a living body. Soulmechs are subject to effects that target a living creature's spirit or soul, including energy drain.
• Immunity to poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, disease, subdual damage, and damage or drain to physical ability scores. Soulmechs are subject to critical hits. They have minds and can suffer damage to their mental abilities.
• Immunity to any effect that requires a Fortitude save, unless it also works on objects.
• Soulmechs are effectively immortal. They do not age and cannot die of old age.
• Soulmechs are unaffected by dispel magic or any antimagic field. In effect, the spell that created the soulmech has run its course.
• Unlike true constructs, soulmechs have minds and are therefore vulnerable to mind-affecting spells and effects.
• Soulmechs cannot heal damage on their own and cannot be healed by divine magic. They can be repaired and healed by arcane magic.
• Cannot be raised or resurrected. A new soul bind spell cast immediately after the character's death will allow it to be transferred to a new neural net.
• Cannot increase physical ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution) as the character advances in level. The character may still increase mental ability scores (Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma).
• Cannot benefit from magic (spells or items) that enhances physical ability scores (e.g., bull’s strength or gauntlets of ogre power).
• Cannot ingest potions, drugs, or spell components that must be consumed.
• Cannot use arcanotech.
• Soulmechs can learn, prepare, and cast spells normally, except for the prohibition on ingested spell components.
• Soulmechs are living creatures, not undead. They cannot be turned or rebuked.
• Soulmechs are internally powered and do not require recharging.
• No matter the soulmech's original race, he doesn't get any of the standard racial traits not specifically listed here. For instance, a dwarf soulmech loses his stonecunning ability.
• Languages: The character has the same automatic and bonus languages as he did before becoming a soulmech (the same as any member of his original race). Soulmechs also know Digital, which allows them to communicate with other machines.
• Favored Class: Mechanist. A multiclass soulmech's mechanist class doesn't count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty for multiclassing. Characters who have class levels when they become soulmechs retain the favored class of their original race.