Homebrew Awakened Golem Species Details

Humble Materials, Profound Magic
Few spellcasters have the power, the ingenuity, and the motive to literally create life from nonliving materials ―even the gods find that task challenging. Life spontaneously created by magic normally sputters out as the spell the created it fades, or otherwise vanishes completely in a puff of smoke at the spell’s conclusion. Creating a true awakened golem, therefore, is a herculean feat.

Creating a golem first requires a manual of golems, a vast amount of wealth, a deep well of arcane power, and patience. When it is at last complete, the golem towers above even its creator, possesses incredible strength, and is perfectly obedient to its creator’s wishes. But not all arcanists desire blind obedience from their creations, and then undergo the equally challenging task of awakening the golem, imbuing it with sapience and perhaps even a soul. Often, the awakening transforms the golem on some physical level as well, bringing it closer to the scale of humanoids and giving it more recognizable features.

Sometimes awakened golems are created by sheer accident, such as through a mishap with the creation process, a wild magic event gone terribly wrong, or a card drawn from a deck of magical cards. In these cases, an awakened golem might not resemble a traditional golem at all, and will likely learn all it knows from the environment it is born into.

Freed Spirits
Like other creatures, most awakened golems resent taking orders day in and day out. They can think and act for themselves and relish the chance to see the world, if afforded it.

Still, most awakened golems feel separate from the rest of the world. Other humanoids might recognize them as being intelligent and sapient, but a wide division stands between them and polite society. Lingering questions about the golem’s creation, from the nature of their souls, to the issue of their agelessness, couples with this and tends to alienate them further, often positioning them as outcasts left to aimlessly find their way in the world.

 

Awakened Golem Traits

Tireless Body

Tireless Body

You do not need to sleep to gain the benefits of a long rest. You can instead spend that time doing light work.

Darkvision

You treat darkness as dim light and dim light as bright light within 40 ft.

Languages

You can speak and read Common Dwarven and Primordial and can speak Ignan and Terran.

Ability Score Modfier

Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength increases by 1.

Age

Golems do not age like ordinary creatures, but must occupy themselves with activities or their sanity will start to degrade. If you are kept in a functional state of repair, you could conceivably live forever.

Alignment

Golems share alignment with  their creator. If they have no connection to their creator they are generally Neutral.

Size

Smaller than most of your golem contemporaries, but towering over most men, you stand between 7 and 9 feet tall and can weigh nearly 1000 lbs. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base movement speed is 30 feet.

Natural Armor

You cannot wear armor and gain no AC bonus from your Dexterity modifier but your base AC is 15 and you have resistance to Slashing, Piercing and Bludgeoning.

Durable

If you would gain a point of exhaustion you instead make a constitution saving throw (DC10+3 for each consecutive save in a single day) if you make the save you do not gain a point of exhaustion.

Natural Guardians

Your following of the Allhammer has given you certain talents. You are proficient with Warhammers and Blacksmithing tool.