Silver Golem - Help Needed!

[Eccles]

My campaign's currently at a very low level, but one of the villains the party's not even met yet is happily making himself a fully sentient silver golem.

His intention is to create the thing with a spirit and then to possess it using Magic Jar, and live forever.

Apart from a truck load of silver (which is my the party's meeting loads of goblins and things at the bottom of 'abandoned' silver mines), what other items would I need?

At the moment, I'm thinking of it as a faster and more graceful Iron Golem, but it will need to have slightly different abilities.

Can anyone suggest suitable abilities, special powers and weaknesses together with ingredients the wizard might need to get to justify them?

For instance, since all golems are magic immune (this one will only have partial immunity, but never mind), then the main eyes of 3 beholders are already on my shopping list.

What else can you suggest? (I'm in the Realms, if that's any help).

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

Well, does the wizard have any guide on making a golem?

If not, then you might want to suggest his wizard might think it is a good idea to do research-

i.e. Try making lesser golems or visit wizards who already make golems to get some advice.

That should help set up some adventures.

A weakness: Magical healing is not going to do anything for him. As he takes damage- then he will need to figure out a way to repair himself. (And I would not tell him this beforehand- let him think of it or suffer the consequences of drastic magical alterations to himself.)

Another big weakness: He will be heavy. Very heavy. Keep that in mind in: chase sequences, travel sequences, rope bridges, anything to do with boats.

A possible big weakness: He can no longer drink potions, and other worn magic items may no longer work for him- since he is so resistant to magic.

Other ingrediants: formian blood (to construct it) or a formian nervous system (to house the soul- or something like that). 2nd edition had living blackpudding-like creatues of the precious metals- perhaps a living silver creature.

Good luck with this- it sounds like a fun quest for a long term campeign, but I would not let it happen until the later levels.

FD

 

[Eccles]

Sorry. I guess I wasn't clear.

It's a powerful artificier NPC who's doing the whole golem thing. As a step towards world domination...

Therefore there's no problem with his needing to make smaller golems, research or all of that. He's got a bunch of goblinoids and other servants questing around the place to collect this stuff, and periodically the PCs will get quests that are peripherally involved.

i.e. a request from the Formians you suggested to come help them from a bunch of ogres who are attacking them.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Sorry. I guess I wasn't clear.

*chuckle* No, sorry about that- you were clear, I was just being an idiot.

FD

 

[Eccles]

Of course by the time the party realises that the nice old man who keeps giving them magic EQ and interesting quests is in fact an evil psycho who's hell-bent on global destruction, they'll have to go into his lair, and there will indeed be all sorts of 'test' golems.

The best one so far is the innocent person's sentient head nailed onto a flesh-golem body. So that it keeps begging for destruction even as it pounds 'em...

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

That is a pretty cool idea.

It would be also cool if he gathered the heads of minor villians in the campeins, especially those the party hates- and made them into golems.

He knows the adventurers will turn on him eventually, so he is.. prepared. haha.

FD

 

[Eccles]

Now that's a nice idea. There are a whole bunch of NPCs specifically tailored for the PCs to utterly hate, so that they look around and try to find some excuse to kill them.

This also explains why someone keeps reincarnating the villains (as practice and also to keep the heroes off the scent).

Excellent!

 

[dshai527]

I ran a campaign where the big evil bad person was attempting to build the ultimate golem. The party actually worked for her at first as she had them searching for artifacts to stop an evil that she lied about. The artifacts were really the components of the golem. The artifacts were a sword, necklace, a crown, boots, belt and someother things (its been awhile) they were all made of metal though. The party was pissed when they learned that they were being used to help evil instead of stopping it and an epic battle ensued (the largest grandest battle that has ever happened in my world). Everyone involved in the game had a fabulous time as it was part detective work and part fantasy roleplaying. The campaign ran from 1st to about 14th level. The many dungeons, shrines and strongholds they invaded in the name of saving the world was fun, but the plot twist near the end was better.