Crafting golems and constructs

[tom.harden.2012]

My Wizard ritual caster is wanting to be able to craft golems and other constructs using a ritual. I am not sure how to do that,

I'm thinking of a ritual that only takes a min or two to cast and creates a golem out of whatever is near by, I'm thinking it should last for and hour-ish so it can be used in a few encounters.

But he is looking for the whole wizard in the lab making a golem fro
Stone/wood/metal/flesh etc. And bringing it to life and it being able to fight and stick around until he releases it or it gets destroyed.

I've already planted a hook for them to find this wizard ho is famous for his golem craft unroll he disappeared a few decades ago.

Any advice?

 

[Primitive Screwhead]

Which system?

There is a 3pp book for 3x on Golem Craft 101 that is very well done, along with the follow-up of Mage Craft 101.. I used these and enjoyed the results.

 

[tom.harden.2012]

4th edition

 

[Primitive Screwhead]

Oops..forgot which forum I was in!

I think there is humuculi rules in the ebberon sourcebook, but haven't dug into it

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[Jhaelen]

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[Radiating Gnome]

I'd be inclined to look at some of the conjurations that are out there and just reskin them as minor Golems. There are a wide variety at different levels that might make good models.

Alternatively, if it must be a ritual, look at reskinning "Undead Servitor".

-rg

 

[Ferghis]

I would allow the wizard to create figurines of wondrous power (Adventurer's Vault 1) with the "Create Magic Item" ritual. That's the most flexible way, and they last 8 hours (or until KO), which is decent. This solution also fits into your seed: the character would find the special ingredient that lets him/her make one/some figurines, which is the way Uncommon and Rare items are supposed to be made (at DM's discretion).

My other option would be to look at revamping the character as a multiclass or hybrid artificer, which has a lot of mini-creature powers. Look at the Clockwork Engineer paragon path as an example.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

My Wizard ritual caster is wanting to be able to craft golems and other constructs using a ritual. I am not sure how to do that,

I'm thinking of a ritual that only takes a min or two to cast and creates a golem out of whatever is near by, I'm thinking it should last for and hour-ish so it can be used in a few encounters.

But he is looking for the whole wizard in the lab making a golem fro
Stone/wood/metal/flesh etc. And bringing it to life and it being able to fight and stick around until he releases it or it gets destroyed.

I've already planted a hook for them to find this wizard ho is famous for his golem craft unroll he disappeared a few decades ago.

Any advice?

You could make two rituals (or one with two uses). A short-term ritual, as described by you and other posters, and a long-term ritual that has expensive components, a much-longer casting time (perhaps up to 8 hours) and gives you a companion that lasts "permanently". The companion couldn't gain levels by itself, but you could spend money to upgrade it, effectively giving it levels, I would think. The latter idea might be too powerful though. I'm not really sure how companions are balanced, if one PC has one and another doesn't.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

I would use the rules for hirelings and reskin the costs to hire them as the costs to perform a ritual to create the golem.

 

[Pour]

I can't speak for the quality, but at an insanely reasonable price, there's a 3rd party supplement tackling just this issue.

Golem Grimoire - Alea Publishing Group | DriveThruRPG.com