Boiled Golems

[Cheiromancer]

Golems "completely resist most magical and supernatural effects." They have damage reduction, too, but do not seem to have been given energy immunity or resistance.

What happens if you drop a flesh golem into a vat of boiling oil? Does this slow them as per other Fire effects, but not do any points of damage? How about a vat of acid?

And how about falling? Seems to me that if you drop a stone golem from high enough, it should break. Do you roll standard falling damage and subtract DR?

-Cheiromancer

 

[AuraSeer]

Fire is not subject to damage resistance. Nonmagical fire is not subject to magic resistance. Hey, that must be why Frankenstein's monster-- the original flesh golem-- was scared of torches! I like it!

 

[Voadam]

Golems "completely resist most magical and supernatural effects." They have damage reduction, too, but do not seem to have been given energy immunity or resistance.

What happens if you drop a flesh golem into a vat of boiling oil? Does this slow them as per other Fire effects, but not do any points of damage? How about a vat of acid?

And how about falling? Seems to me that if you drop a stone golem from high enough, it should break. Do you roll standard falling damage and subtract DR?

-Cheiromancer

Natural energy, the golem's achilles heel (besides low hit points from no con).

Yep, I was surprised that stone and iron golems were not immune to fire but there it is.

I treat falling damage as the same type as bludgeoning weapons so I apply dr. So a stone golem can break if dropped from high eneough, just needs to be higher than a pc.