could i use this as a dragon hunter

i want to use this as a dragon hunter because my group that are level three got a dragon wyrmling on their team and dont want them to be op at the start

So, if you polymorph into this thing, then can you just not change back? it says that it's immune to everything that would change its form

Depends on the DM, I personally make it break down in a fit of rage before stopping all movement.

Or just be a monk.

The sword, maybe, I don't see the Golem itself

lol thanks for giving me an idea for my next boss encounter. I needed a few servants for my Lich(who knows fireball) ^_^

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For a fun tweak, give it some type of fire or forge on its chest...dwarven made perhaps? 

You can add some extra HP and +1-2AC for flavor needing added materials to build the "forge" in the golem...your call.

Then add in this: After poison breath, the poison acts as a standing cloud the last 1d4 rounds. The golem can also then use fire breath (recharge 5-6) and ignite the  cloud causing 8d8 fire damage and making the spell fire wall in a 20x20 radius for the same 1d4 rounds. Now that makes it more of a CR 16 monster!!!!  Furnace/Bellows Iron Golem

 wow, this is a great idea! I might use it in my Ancient Dragon encounter later on. Or I could just have the heat of the volcano automatically ignite the poison after doing dmg rolls?

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Can someone explain to me why, outside of being nice to the players, a DM would ever use the slam attack? Why would I attack with 3d8 when I can attack with 3d10? I don't understand why the multiattack isn't written as, "The golem makes one attack with Slam and one attack with Sword." That would make sense, like it's giving you the old right-left. But as it's written, there's zero reason for me to ever use the slam attack.

 

 If it gets disarmed or you as a DM decide it attacks that way.

Right, in case it gets disarmed. And also in case for some bizarre reason I decide not to use its free item interaction to pick the sword back up as the first thing it does on its turn. So, not a great example. And your second scenario is the very scenario I've called into question -- why would I decide it attacks that way, i.e. the inefficient way? If I want to give my players a break, I can just fudge a roll. Or lower some bad guys' ACs and hit points. Or even have his sword get teleported to the astral plane, leaving only slam attacks. A disarm that actually matters, in other words. There are a million things I can do besides using an inefficient attack written into its stat block. But you've missed my question. I'm asking why this stat block is seemingly written in an illogical way. I ask this question genuinely because perhaps I've missed something, and I can learn a thing here. But I already learned a long time ago that I get to decide however my monsters attack.

 I'm really new to DMing, but I'll try my best. I think that the reason why Iron Golems get slam attacks is because just sword/spear/whatever weapon they have attacks would make them a bit too much like a really buff version of the PCs.(atleast fighter and barbarian PCs I guess?) It sort of makes the PC tanks kinda useless if they somehow get an iron golem into their hands. You could just spam sword attacks, but remember that most d&d monsters should at least have a bit of logic or reality built into it, hence the slam attack. It's not a golem if I doesn't have unarmed melee

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How much of these could kill a ancient red dragon

 probably just the low, low number of... at least 5. Remember, Ancient Red Dragons always have cannon fodder on hand. If you ask for just the Ancient Red Dragon and nothing else, then you're just making it weak for the sake of making it weak. Those things never play fair :(          Also the dragon can just carry the golem and drop it, assuming its light enough(which it probably isnt, but maybe someone could just buff carrying weight or something?)

This guy in the elemental plane of fire

ayo i don't even want to know what heat metal does to this thing

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Where will we get a big enough pumpkin to make this thing?

 Cast Enlarge/Reduce on a pumpkin. Or sing bibbidi bobbidi boo. Your choice. 

 artificers: oh yea its big brain time

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Wait a second, this isnt the Minecraft Wiki

 

 lol

You cant

interesting

It bothers me that its proficiency bonus and strength bonus add to +12 but its to hit bonus is +13 and same for its breath attack saving throw should be 18...It seems like an oversight

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Can someone explain to me why, outside of being nice to the players, a DM would ever use the slam attack? Why would I attack with 3d8 when I can attack with 3d10? I don't understand why the multiattack isn't written as, "The golem makes one attack with Slam and one attack with Sword." That would make sense, like it's giving you the old right-left. But as it's written, there's zero reason for me to ever use the slam attack.

 

 

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You are right that attack is very situational, only really coming in handy when an opponent has some strange, screwy resistances and/or vulnerabilities, but stat blocks are fitted with all the weapons that a creature can use, not necessarily the ones that it will.

Put this Iron Boi in a volcano and its practically indestructible.