Quote Originally Posted by Beni-Kujaku View Post
I think it should get an asterisk, if only for the variability in the monster's power level. The problem is not the increase in number of HD (which is not possible after creation), but the reduction (which is). It is explicitly possible to spend the gold in your gold golem, reducing its HD by up to 4. So in the end, if this quirk isn't asterisked, the Gold Golem can be a 6 RHD golem with an added 40k gp, which is 3 times as much as the WBL at level 6, and almost as much as the WBL at level 10. Doubling your WBL is really a game changer, and the main reason why artificers are good in the first place.
I even didn't think about WBL abuse. But I thought about decreasing starting ECL from 10 to 6 because, y'know, less construct HD - better.