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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2315658" data-attributes="member: 8158">Semantics. A phylactery is some bits of inscribed parchment placed in some kind of vessel. If the golem's acting as the vessel, then, for simplicity's sake, it can be considered a walking phylactery.An iron golem has high damage reduction and immunity to spells. Sounds like it makes a pretty good safe.  And golems typically aren't sent to fight. They guard things. It's a perfect fit.As far as the golem fighting in this particular instance, risking its phylactery in the process, I don't see anything that describes the actual scenario. Maybe the lich doesn't have a choice. Looks like the gods are plucking two monsters out of their environments and pitching them at each other.Of course there's an advantage to it. The golem is guarding the phylactery, in the most effective manner possible. A golem's strength is its personal defenses; its lack of mobility and ranged offense are weaknesses. If the phylactery's sitting in some chest near the golem, the PC's can easily do an end-run around the golem and attack the phylactery directly. Even an adamantine chest can be disintegrated. A golem can't be.</blockquote>