parchment golem! ( Yes I am crazy)

[Empirate]

Whoa, didn't notice the epic thread necro by [MENTION=6750311]Sojourn[/MENTION]! Holy cow!

And to answer your question from a historical standpoint: parchment and paper used to be in circulation side by side for a long time, until parchment fell out of use due to being more expensive. The Goods & Services price list makes no sense.

Plant fibre paper only came into currency from the 18th century onward, when high-quality textile fiber came harder and harder to come by, compared to the exploding demand for paper. Not a medieval thing at all.

 

[Cleon]

Whoa, didn't notice the epic thread necro by @Sojourn ! Holy cow!

And to answer your question from a historical standpoint: parchment and paper used to be in circulation side by side for a long time, until parchment fell out of use due to being more expensive. The Goods & Services price list makes no sense.

Plant fibre paper only came into currency from the 18th century onward, when high-quality textile fiber came harder and harder to come by, compared to the exploding demand for paper. Not a medieval thing at all.

Medieval paper made from rags is still plant-fibre paper surely, it's just made from the much tougher fibres of plants used to weave cloth (linen, flax, etc?) than the wood pulp used in most modern papers.

Furthermore, the default 3rd edition D&D world appears to have a higher technology level than Medieval times. You can go into a store and buy a telescope, after all. Large elements of it do seem to have 18th century equivalent tech.

 

[Akhelos]

*Looks at the Golem* Why do I get a mental Image of an Wizard or Sorcerer carrying around a Bag full of Scrolls, so that he can release his instant Paper-Golem Army on unsuspecting Enemys? ^^
Albei I think our GM would hit me if i say that my wizard carries around a dozen Golems in his Bag, at least on lower levels. *gg*

 

[Enkhidu]

The first thing that popped into my head when I read this thread was "these would be so much better if they were made of spell scrolls, and could cast whatever spells were scribed on their attendant parchment-y parts.

 

[gamerprinter]

While no paper golem yet... for the Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG), there is a wizard archetype called the Onmyoji that specializes in using origami for spell components (for spells that must be used in next 24 hours, so not like scrolls), he loses 1 spell per level, but he gains 1 free origami spell per day that can be stored indefinitely, so that does work like a scroll (over many days, can have many origami spell scrolls prepared for insta-use.)

As stated, nothing yet, but there is a plan to allow the onmyoji to be able to create enlarged origami animals that work like golems, though no real direction for that yet...