I know that the cost for creating a golem includes the body and material/spell components..but I can't seem to figure out where they get the rest of the cost. Anyone know the secret formula...?
I know that the cost for creating a golem includes the body and material/spell components..but I can't seem to figure out where they get the rest of the cost. Anyone know the secret formula...?"Magic Bits"?
I think it's left deliberately vague so as to allow each DM to decide what those bits are.
Ah..I like vague..lets me set the price per golem
I think you'll find the seemingly high cost is quite reasonable if you speak with the material component providers. You see, they need to keep the prices as high as they are for research and development. After all, you want new golem types to be created and refined, right? So there you go.
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On a more serious note, didn't golems used to be created by summoning and binding elemental spirits? Maybe there's some kind of bargain that needs to be made to get the spirit, or perhaps it requires something to placate it into serving in the golem body.
Also alchemy involved mercury and platinum.
I mentioned elsewhere spirits of the dead.
You need a really special candle and bag.
To give the Golem wings, you need to procure the wings yourself.
After he abandoned his university studies in chemistry, it took Victor Frankenstein upwards of 20 years of painstaking effort on his creation before he finally "succeeded". So I guess it could be assumed he "paid" for the expense by personally collecting the body parts he needed while designing and building his various apparatuses himself.
I recall a quote I'd read which, considering that Frankenstein was a university dropout with no formal medical training, described his astounding achievement of reviving a cobbled together pile of rotting tissue via a bolt of lightning with a 3rd year physics student building a working space shuttle in his garage out of nothing more than matchsticks and duck tape. =)
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On the title topic, Frankenstein was a Baron.
He was also a doctor, till he became obsessed.
One recent remake had him as a modern doctor and the monster had body memory in all his parts. Why doesn't SyFy network continue that TV show?
After he abandoned his university studies in chemistry, it took Victor Frankenstein upwards of 20 years of painstaking effort on his creation before he finally "succeeded". So I guess it could be assumed he "paid" for the expense by personally collecting the body parts he needed while designing and building his various apparatuses himself.
I recall a quote I'd read which, considering that Frankenstein was a university dropout with no formal medical training, described his astounding achievement of reviving a cobbled together pile of rotting tissue via a bolt of lightning with a 3rd year physics student building a working space shuttle in his garage out of nothing more than matchsticks and duck tape. =)
Well, he was trying to prove that the theory of galvanism worked. He succeeded.
They guy with the matchsticks and duct tape space shuttle obviously succeeded in proving the theories that you can build anything out of duct tape and that business about it being like the Force and holding the universe together. Probably related to the theories of ether and the firmament.
I'm not certain what holds the firmament together but I'd think "duct tape" is a better answer than most. The Platonic ideal duct tape but duct tape all the same.
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After he abandoned his university studies in chemistry, it took Victor Frankenstein upwards of 20 years of painstaking effort on his creation before he finally "succeeded". So I guess it could be assumed he "paid" for the expense by personally collecting the body parts he needed while designing and building his various apparatuses himself.
I recall a quote I'd read which, considering that Frankenstein was a university dropout with no formal medical training, described his astounding achievement of reviving a cobbled together pile of rotting tissue via a bolt of lightning with a 3rd year physics student building a working space shuttle in his garage out of nothing more than matchsticks and duck tape. =)
Well, he was trying to prove that the theory of galvanism worked. He succeeded.
They guy with the matchsticks and duct tape space shuttle obviously succeeded in proving the theories that you can build anything out of duct tape and that business about it being like the Force and holding the universe together. Probably related to the theories of ether and the firmament.
I'm not certain what holds the firmament together but I'd think "duct tape" is a better answer than most. The Platonic ideal duct tape but duct tape all the same.
Which makes me wonder why duct tape is not on the alchemical equipment list! Face it, EVERY PC would ALWAYS buy duct tape if it were available. :)