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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iku Rex" data-source="post: 1922243" data-attributes="member: 752">Here's a relevant FAQ entry. The entries for all the golems in the Monster Manual saythat golems have magic immunity, which is supposed toallow golems to completely resist most magical andsupernatural effects except for specific ones listed in eachgolem’s description. (Most of those heal, slow, or damagethe golem.) Can you cast beneficial spells on a golem? Forexample, can you turn a golem invisible? Can you teleportone? Could you cast darkness on a golem? How about fly orreverse gravity? To put it another way, if you are not tryingto directly cause damage or drastically alter the golem(such as with a polymorph spell), will the spell work?Clearly, if you cast darkness on yourself and the golemattacks you, once it moves into the area of darkness, it canno longer see you. But can you cast darkness on the golem?Could a golem use a magic item, such as a ring ofinvisibility?As noted in each golem’s entry, a golem resists any spell orspell-like ability that allows spell resistance. (In previousversions of the D&D game, golems were impervious to mostsupernatural effects as well, but that is no longer the case.) Inmost cases, you can tell if a spell or spell-like ability works ona golem simply by looking up its spell resistance entry. Let’stake a quick look at the effects you’ve listed:Invisibility: You cannot turn a golem invisible with anyversion of the invisibility spell. (They all have spell resistanceentries of “yes.”) This immunity to being made invisibledoesn’t mean the golem has any special ability to see or detectinvisible creatures or objects.Teleport: The spell resistance entry for the various versionsof the teleport spell is “no,” at least for creatures. Note thatwhen you’re using the teleport spell, you teleport yourself andother willing creatures. Unless you can command the golem(and you probably don’t unless you created the golem), itprobably isn’t willing to accompany you and would receive asaving throw to resist.Darkness: You can’t cast a darkness spell on yourself, on agolem, or any other creature—only on an object (see the spelldescription). Golems have no special ability to see throughdarkness (and the spell resistance entry is “no”). The silencespell provides a better example of how a golem’s magicimmunity (and spell resistance in general) works. You can castsilence on a creature, and when you do so, spell resistanceapplies (see the spell description). A silence spell automaticallyfails if you try to cast it on a golem.Once a silence spell is operating, silence reigns throughoutthe emanation the spell creates. If a golem moves into theemanation, the golem still cannot hear or make any noise.Fly: You can’t use a fly spell to make a golem fly (the spellresistance entry is “yes”).Reverse Gravity: This spell’s spell resistance entry is “no,”so it affects a golem as readily as it affects any other creature orobject.Note that a golem cannot voluntarily lower its magicimmunity so that it can receive a harmless spell, but a golem’smagic immunity does not extend to magic the golem uses onitself (just as spell resistance doesn’t apply to such effects). [Important to shapechanging wizards...] A golem can make use of any magic item that works continuouslyor is use activated (provided whoever commands the golem ison hand to put the item on the golem or order the golem to pickit up). Being mindless, a golem cannot use any item activatedby command, spell, or spell completion.</blockquote>

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