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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bayushi Seikuro" data-source="post: 3631860" data-attributes="member: 23328">The way I understand it - which might be flawed - is that you pay for the body.  The body costs a bare minimum of 10k.  It looks like the 10k includes all the rare arcane things you need smelted into the casing of the golem.So, to me, it's looking like it would cost the price of the manual + 10k gp for the body.  Still a lot cheaper than the alternative.  ( I assume the other costs include the costs for wish, etc)From the SRD:--------------A golem manual contains information, incantations and magical power that help a character to craft a golem. The instructions therein grant a +5 competence bonus on skill checks made to craft the golem’s body. Each manual also holds the prerequisite spells needed for a specific golem, effectively grants the builder use of the Craft Construct feat during the construction of the golem, and grants the character an increase to her caster level for the purpose of crafting a golem. Any golem built using a golem manual does not cost the creator any XP, since the requisite XP are “contained” in the book and “expended” by the book during the creation process.The spells included in a golem manual require a spell trigger activation and can be activated only to assist in the construction of a golem. The cost of the book does not include the cost of constructing the golem’s body. Once the golem is finished, the writing in the manual fades and the book is consumed in flames. When the book’s ashes are sprinkled upon the golem, it becomes fully animated. ...Iron Golem Manual: The book contains cloudkill, geas/quest, limited wish, and polymorph any object. The reader may treat her caster level as four levels higher than normal for the purpose of crafting a iron golem. The book supplies 5,600 XP for the creation of a iron golem.------------------The advantage, obviously, is the book fuels the XP, gives you a bonus to the crafting checks, gives you a free feat while using it, and the spells nessecarily.  I would agree too that it'd be be (one round per spell) + (one round of Book On Fire) + (one round of spreading the ashes) to animate the golem.Of course, I just woke up, so I could be wrong.[EDIT: The other thing I noticed as an advantage to the book: the +4 Caster level it gives you lets you make a golem at a much lower level.  That and the fact it's a temporary free feat, and free XP for that feat, makes it a pretty good Loot.]</blockquote>

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