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.