Homebrew DW - Golem Species Details

Dorfl stood stock-still, holding his cleaver and looking down at the ground.
"Is it a troll made to look like a human?" whispered Cheery. "Look at those eyes!"
"It's not a troll," said Angua. "It's a golem. A man of clay. It's a machine."
"It looks like a human!"
"That's because it's a machine made for looking like a human."
--Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

Robots Older than Civilization

Golems are created by infusing a clay sculpture of a man with magic words in their head, called a chem. They obey the chem unfailingly. Most chems make the golem unfailingly follow orders given by their masters. They will continue to follow the order, without protest, payment, or rest, until they are told to stop or are physically unable to. There are tales of a golem tasked with delivering a message to an extinct civilization waiting until the cycle of time restarts in order to deliver it. Golems are made without mouths and are mute, using a tablet to communicate. Some golems have had their chems replaced with a receipt for their ownership. This gives the golem free will. They gain the ability to talk in this form, and they often start asking for a salary.

Golems and Modern Society

Normal golems are a commodity, and are bought and sold for high prices. They often work out of sight in dangerous, dirty, or physically demanding jobs. Enlightened golems work in more public jobs, often for high pay since they can work without sleeping. Most people tolerate their presence, but some faithful see their presence as an abomination since they view that only their gods can create life.

Golem Names

Golems are named after the jobs they take or the name given to them long ago by their masters. Free golems can choose either to keep their name or to take new ones.
Golem names: Dorfl, Meshugah, Anghammarad, Mr. Pump, Gladys, Nudnik, Kvetch, Mensch, Bobkes, Dybbuk, Shtetl, Schmear

DW - Golem Traits

Golems share certain racial traits as a result of their construction.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

You are ageless. You can be anywhere from 1 year old to 60,000.

Alignment

As golems are made from rules, you have a strong inclination towards the Lawful alignment. You are typically neutral or good.

Size

Golems are 5-7 feet tall and weigh between 350 and 600 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Living Construct

Even though you were constructed, you are a living creature. You are immune to disease, being poisoned, and poison damage. You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish.
Instead of sleeping, you can enter an inactive state for 4 hours each day. You do not dream in this state; you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and other events as normal.

Indefatigable

You are immune to exhaustion and do not need to sleep. You do not regain hit points, spell slots, or any other features regained on a Long Rest unless you enter an inactive state. You reduce your max HP by 1/4 every time you would have gained a level of exhaustion from your own class features, spells, or items. You regain the lost max HP only on a Long Rest.

Vulnerability

You have vulnerability to magical bludgeoning damage.

Brick body

You gain resistance to cold and fire damage. If you take both cold and fire damage within a minute, you take bludgeoning damage equal to double the damage prevented by the resistances.

Languages

You can read and write Common and Primordial. If you have a mouth you can speak these languages too.