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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7357154" data-attributes="member: 6704184">This works well if you are going the kobold press route of making them steampunk robots, but not at all if you are keeping their Eberron nature as sentient golems of wood, stone, and metal, with absolutely no mechanical parts or anything else robotic in the normal sense whatsoever. The best term will depend on how close or far they will be from Eberron’s ‘Forged, what purpose they serve in the world and in the metanarrative, and what their origins are. Golemites is a workable generic term that feels like a thing normal people might call something (always my goal, rather than finding something that sounds cool)Variants of that could include Golemid, Golemen (pronounced goal-men or Goal-a-men, or even Golem-en, etc), Golemide, or even Golians. Just calling them “golem” or construct could be seen as demeaning, like calling a Dragonborn “lizard” or “reptile”. In the right world, Titans, Tanks, or any other term for “big tough thing” could work. One way to avoid awkwardness of “cool” names is to translate your cool name (preferably badly) into another language that fits the culture that created them. Take things like “soul forged” and run them through google translate until you like something, then butcher it until you love it and it’s a new unique word. A nice lazy solution is to just call them “Forged”, but Forgeborn isn’t bad, either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7357154, member: 6704184"] This works well if you are going the kobold press route of making them steampunk robots, but not at all if you are keeping their Eberron nature as sentient golems of wood, stone, and metal, with absolutely no mechanical parts or anything else robotic in the normal sense whatsoever. The best term will depend on how close or far they will be from Eberron’s ‘Forged, what purpose they serve in the world and in the metanarrative, and what their origins are. Golemites is a workable generic term that feels like a thing normal people might call something (always my goal, rather than finding something that sounds cool) Variants of that could include Golemid, Golemen (pronounced goal-men or Goal-a-men, or even Golem-en, etc), Golemide, or even Golians. Just calling them “golem” or construct could be seen as demeaning, like calling a Dragonborn “lizard” or “reptile”. In the right world, Titans, Tanks, or any other term for “big tough thing” could work. One way to avoid awkwardness of “cool” names is to translate your cool name (preferably badly) into another language that fits the culture that created them. Take things like “soul forged” and run them through google translate until you like something, then butcher it until you love it and it’s a new unique word. A nice lazy solution is to just call them “Forged”, but Forgeborn isn’t bad, either. [/QUOTE]

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