Made from coils of ordinary rope, designed for shipboard use

Designed for shipboard use, a Rope Golem is made from coils of ordinary rope. It typically wrestles and holds (as explained in the wrestling rules in the **Basic Fantasy RPG Core Rules**), but once the target is grappled, on the next round the rope golem will pass a loop around whichever appendage it believes to be its target's neck. The target then has one round to cut the rope with a dagger or it will be throttled. For most creatures throttling is fatal, but anyone wearing plate mail armor and a helm is also presumed to have a gorget that provides protection from this attack.