Category:Glass Golem

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The glass golem is a magical animated construct and as such lacks the dread golem template. It is a mindless automaton that obeys in the most straightforward way possible the orders of its maker, drawing no conclusions and taking no initiative. The creature will not resort spontaneously to special actions such as tripping or disarming, but it may either be given a specific instruction to make one such attack or may be directed as necessary by a maker who is immediatley at hand. When issuing instructions to the animate thing, its maker is wise to error on the side of simplicity. The creature has the shape of a figure, often a knight, within a stained glass window consisting of hundreds if not thousands of tiny pieces of glass. When inactive a glass golem offers no hint of being something other than part of a work of art. Its employment is invariably as the guardian, or the enforcer, of a religious institution.

Glass golems can be encountered in Darkon^[1].

Construction^[2]

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The successful maker of a glass golem is a spellcaster of at least the 14th level. He or she pours 100,000 gp (or its equivalent) into bringing his or her idea to "life". Of this total, 10,000 gp are spent fashioning the thing's body, which takes three months and a successful Craft (glassworking) check (DC 18). The ultimate animation of the thing requires 1,000 XP from the caster and the casting of the following spells: animate object, prismatic spray, rainbow pattern, and miracle. A maker who is an arcane spellcaster must in fact impose upon a divine caster for some of the spells and vice versa.

References

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp29 Monsterous Compendium I - "Golem, Ravenloft" Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium I Van Richten's Guide to The Created Denizens of Darkness
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp29 Monsterous Compendium I - "Golem, Ravenloft" Van Richten's Guide to The Created - p51
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp26-27,29 Monsterous Compendium I - "Golem, Ravenloft" Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium I - p241 Van Richten's Guide to The Created - p52 Denizens of Darkness - pp68, 70
		Monsterous Compendium I & II - pp29 Monsterous Compendium I - "Golem, Ravenloft" Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium I - pp241-242 Van Richten's Guide to The Created - pp50-51 Denizens of Darkness -pp68-70
		Golem, Glass