I just have to ask: What was the author of this article smoking? Requirements of CL 5 and CL 7 for creating golems? Outrageous! Impossible!
All of the golems require Craft Construct, which can be taken no sooner than level 9 for most characters or level 6 for a wizard Craft Construct requires Craft Wondrous and Craft Arms & Armor. The earliest that Craft Wondrous can be taken is character level 3, and the earliest that Craft Arms & Armor can be taken is character level 6 (5 for a wizard).
With this in mind, levels 6 and 9 should be listed for the golems in the article - levels 5 and 7 (especially 5) are nonsensical.
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I just have to ask: What was the author of this article smoking? Requirements of CL 5 and CL 7 for creating golems? Outrageous! Impossible!
All of the golems require Craft Construct, which can be taken no sooner than level 9 for most characters or level 6 for a wizard Craft Construct requires Craft Wondrous and Craft Arms & Armor. The earliest that Craft Wondrous can be taken is character level 3, and the earliest that Craft Arms & Armor can be taken is character level 6 (5 for a wizard).
With this in mind, levels 6 and 9 should be listed for the golems in the article - levels 5 and 7 (especially 5) are nonsensical.
You are right that a Wizard can get Craft Construct no sooner than 6th level, making the 5th level prerequisite a bit of a redundancy. However, there are ways around this, through golem manuals or the assistance of another caster. Alternatively, you can simply raise this requirement to 6th and call it a day.
Jason Bulmahn
Managing Editor of Dragon
I would just like to add how much I loved this article. Most especially are the paper and fungus golems which are very evocative. I think they'll both see use in my campaigns. I also love that they are low-level and that among these are the first golems that a druid can make unassisted (as far as I'm familiar with). Good show!
Well, a character could take the first five levels in wizard, then multiclass into something else at level six. He would be sixth level, but would only have a caster level of 5.
Eh, good point. Still, these golems are written as being appropriate for *low-level* characters. Barring a golem manual, most of them aren't actually available for low level characters!
To be fair, the Flesh Golem requires a character of level 8 or higher and Limited Wish, learnable no sooner than level 13.
That (and my above rant) said, I agree with deClench about the coolness of the article. It's both interesting and evocative - it's very cool to have stats on golems that are appropriate for the lower levels.