Golem Immunity

[Dandu]

Play it right, and you're an invincible tank against spellcasters.

The Conjuration school tends to throw a wench in SR related plans.

 

[Sorrowdusk]

The Conjuration school tends to throw a wench in SR related plans.

Awww, I had hoped it would at least be an Expensive Doxy.

 

[Jacob]

The Conjuration school tends to throw a wench in SR related plans.

Everything has a counter if you have the means and the power to do so. It's like saying wizards fail because they need a mouth while other classes don't need it (I'm talking about Silence, of course, but it just looks odd when I read it over). If Conjuration spells are the only thing a perfect SR needs to worry about, perhaps it's a good trade? Something I would like to look into at least.

 

[Dandu]

Everything has a counter if you have the means and the power to do so. It's like saying wizards fail because they need a mouth while other classes don't need it (I'm talking about Silence, of course, but it just looks odd when I read it over).

The fact that something can be countered does not make everything nice and balanced. A wizard overcomes the need for a mouth with a relatively cheap magical item. What does it take to overcome the Conjuration school?

If Conjuration spells are the only thing a perfect SR needs to worry about, perhaps it's a good trade? Something I would like to look into at least.

Well, there's also the inability to be healed in combat or buffed without first spending time lowering your shields and then raising them, which could conceivably be a problem.

 

[orion90000]

Except the Clay Golem, which requires Commune and Resurrection to create. But that's beside the point...

Golems are the defenders of the magic users. They have the ability to shrug off magic to ward off other potential magic threats (and the physical ones they can't handle). That's the way I've always saw it. If there's a more defined reason for it, I would like to know myself.

Golems come from Jewish folklore (not the Bible). They were created out of clay and then the creator would write instructions on paper and insert it into the golem's mouth and the golem would follow the instructions.

 

[Jacob]

The fact that something can be countered does not make everything nice and balanced. A wizard overcomes the need for a mouth with a relatively cheap magical item. What does it take to overcome the Conjuration school?

The coming of Shothragot, which the gods prevent by placing a seal upon the world which makes Conjuration magic cease to function...well, at least calling, summoning, and teleportation spells. So it can only stop a bit I suppose. Then I suppose Anitmagic Field is go?

Well, there's also the inability to be healed in combat or buffed without first spending time lowering your shields and then raising them, which could conceivably be a problem.

Good link! Read through it, though SR still amazes me a bit. As already stated, potions and spells used by the SRed individual still work on them, so not all forms of buffing/healing is gone (just those by other people, which is where the focus is).

But when you get to Epic (where the idea of throwing in Half-Golems comes from), shouldn't the individual have more substantial means? There's Golem Armor of all things, which makes the wearer incapable of healing naturally. As an artifact to be given in Epic levels, surely the PC has found other means to heal/protect themselves than relying on the Cleric all the time?

BTW, got a bit of the Conjuration thrown at me this past session. Two Clay Golems stopped dead in their tracks by a patch of Grease thrown on the ground. Good times were had by all. MY PCs have become resourceful.