Creating a Golemancer

Why did your character become a golemancer? Why did they become one? Deficiency? Desperation? With the creation of the golem, their life changes for the stranger.

Class Features

As a Golemancer, you gain the following class features

Basic Golemancy

The golem obeys your commands to the best of its abilities. In combat, it acts on your turn. You can verbally command it to move (no action required by you), and use your action to command it to take an action. Additionally, whenever it would be able to take a reaction, you must use your reaction to command it to take that reaction. If you do not command it on your turn, it may only take the dodge action. If you are incapacitated, the golem may move or attack on its turn, not just dodge.

Your golem shares your proficiency bonus. If the golem is killed, it can be returned to life by normal means, such as the revivify spell, or you can repair it during a long rest if you have access to its body. At the end of the long rest, it returns to life with half its hit points (rounded down). If the golem is beyond recovery, you can recreate it exactly as it was, with four days of work (8 hours each day).

Over the course of a short rest, you can restore hit points to your golem equal to your Intelligence modifier + your inventor level, or you can fully repair it during a long rest, causing it to regain all its hit points. Any spells you cast that cause the target to regain hit points ignore any restrictions against constructs for your golem.

It ceases to function when you die.

Spellcasting

In studying the workings of your golem, your musings have lead you to cast spells at 1st level. Your spells are concerned with the operation and maintenance of your golem and self defense.

Golem Specialization

At 1st level, you decide upon a material and technique you will specialize with, each of which are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 9th, and 14th level.

Specialization Upgrade

Starting at 1st level, choose an upgrade from the list at the end of your Golem specialization, gaining the benefits listed in its description.

You select an additional upgrade at 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, and 20th level. You can’t select an upgrade more than once, unless the upgrade’s description says otherwise. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can exchange one of your existing upgrades with another upgrade of the same level requirement as the replaced upgrade.

Whenever an existing upgrade is exchanged for a replacement upgrade (either by a subclass feature or when you gain a level), the new upgrade is selected as if you’re the level you were when you originally gained that upgrade. For example, if you replace your Capture and reselect all of your upgrades as a 5th-level golemancer, you could select one 3rd-level upgrade and one 5th-level upgrade, or two 3rd-level upgrades, but you would not be able to select two 5th-level upgrades

Simple Repairs

At 2nd level, you can repair your golem on the fly. As an action, you may repair your golem if it’s within 5 feet of you, expanding your own hit dice equal to half your Golemancer level rounded up. Each hit dice spent is rolled as normal, but you may add your intelligence modifier rather than your constitution modifier. If the mending spell is on your spell list, you may cast it on your golem with the effects of lesser restoration, and restore any lost body parts over the course of the casting time.

My Turn!

At 3rd level, your work with golems grants you the fascinating idea: why should golems have all the fun? You gain the ability to activate certain abilities on your golems, denoted by a capital G, as if they were your own abilities. These abilities originate from you and use your statistics. If the ability does not have a time limit or does not cost an action to use, the ability lasts for 1 minute. Any reference to “your golem” refers to you instead, and you gain any weapon attack profiles explicitly mentioned in the feature by name. You may only have one golem ability active at a time. If you activate this feature again, any previous golem ability immediately ends.

You may use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and regain all uses on a long rest.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Autonomy

At 5th level, you no longer need to use an action or reaction to command your golem to use an action or reaction, and you may issue commands to it mentally while it’s within 60 feet of you.

If the golem isn’t commanded to do anything on its turn, it will take a dodge action in combat

Fundamental Pattern

At 5th level, your golem’s natural weapons count as magical for the purposes of immunity or resistance to non-magical damage.

Warded Bonds

At 7th level, whenever you take damage, you may gain resistance to that damage as a reaction. Your golem takes the same amount of damage that you took.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all uses on a short or long rest.

Discipline Dabbling

At 10th level, your golem may inherit the characteristics of another field of golem study. Your golem gains one of the following: the Mythic Golem’s Elemental Attunement, the Steel Golem’s Stalwart Protector, or the Fleshcrafted Golem’s Apex Predator.

Arcane Recognition

At 11th level, whenever you cast a spell with a range of touch or one of the spells granted by this feature, as long as you’re within a range of 100 feet of your golem, it may deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell, or use the spell’s effects on itself. If the spell requires concentration, it lasts for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier instead.

Spells granted this way do not count against the spells you know.

Of Two Minds

At 18th level, whenever you cast a spell that requires concentration, as long as you’re within 100 feet of your golem, you may have your golem concentrate on that spell for you. Your golem may only hold concentration on one spell this way and may lose concentration as normal. Your golem makes saving throws to maintain concentration as normal.

If you cast a second spell that requires concentration and you are currently concentrating on a spell, you may have your golem concentrate on it. If you ever are more than 100 feet from your golem, your golem loses concentration on any spell it is concentrating on.

Perfect Form

At 20th level, you can perfect your work like nobody else can. At the end of a short or long rest, you gain a temporary golem upgrade from any class that you meet the prerequisites for but do not already have. This upgrade must be of 11th level or lower, and it lasts until you finish a short or long rest, at which time you can select a new temporary upgrade again.

Fleshknit

The Fleshknit golem is a macabre and somewhat evil thing made of flesh and oftentimes, malice. Your specialty is casing the joint, selecting a target, and letting your little monstrosity do the dirty part. Then, with the help of some illusion magic and a little bit of guile, you and your twitching, multi-limbed monstrosity wearing a baby's face blend into a crowd, as if you were never there.

Golemancers who pour their work into a creature made of flesh are after something they've had taken from them, whether it be a loss of innocence, childhood, or those they've held close, and reclaims it in the macabre ways they can. Typically this results in the Fleshknit golem, a vile recreation of many things that were once alive at one point.

Fleshknit Upgrades

Mythic

As a child, you were always being inspired by myths and stories of heroes fighting monsters. Except, you didn't really find yourself tempted to go out and be those heroes, you always loved the monsters. I mean, who doesn't like dragons? They're dragons, they will always be cool, so why not make your own?

Golemancers who specialize in the Mythic golem take the embodiment of those ancient stories and confers the traits of their biggest monsters and deadliest creatures into their golems. Those who seek adventure, enjoy creativity, or sought to bring their imaginary friend to life typically create the famed Mythic golem.

Greatest of Legends (G)

At 14th level, your golem undergoes a final metamorphosis, gaining the traits of mythical creatures. Choose one of the following options and gain its features:

• Hydra: Your golem gains the unique abilities of the fearsome hydra, gaining a plethora of regenerating new arms. At the start of your turn, your golem regains 1d6+3 health points, and gains access to the Bite attack. Whenever your golem attacks with Bite, choose one of the following:
  • Snap: Whenever your golem attacks, it may use a bonus action to attack an additional time.
  • Constrict: As a part of the attack action, your golem wraps the target in their snake-like arms. If they hit the target, they grapple their target as well.
  • Bite: Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach: 5ft., one creature. Hit: 1d10+3 piercing damage.
• Dragon: Melee attacks and breath attacks by your golem ignore damage resistance to fire.
  • Once per turn, as an attack, your golem may release a gout of flame in a 20-foot cone or a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide (your choice). Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take 4d6 fire damage, or half as much on a successful save. This damage increases by an additional d6 at 17th level (5d6), and 19th level (6d6).
• Gazer: Your golem sprouts eyestalks and can channel magic through eye beams. Whenever your golem makes a successful saving throw against a spell or a spell attack misses it, it may target a creature within 30 feet (including the spell caster). The spell targets the chosen creature instead of the golem. If the spell forces a saving throw, use your spell save DC. If the spell has an attack roll, use your spell attack DC. In addition, it gains the following action:
  • As an attack, the golem shoots a magical eye ray at one creature it can see within 60 feet and rolls on the following table to shoot a random eye ray at them. Roll 1d6 and select the following effect from the table to the right.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Momentus Shift Prerequisites: Ice or Stone

As an action, your golem may turn into a dense ball of matter and bowl into your enemies. It gains the following:

• Your golem’s move speed is 60 feet.
• Your golem may not perform any actions or bonus actions.
• At the end of your golem’s movement, any creatures within 5 feet of it must roll a dexterity saving throw. On failure, they take 1d6 for each 10 feet your golem moved in a straight line. On success, they move 5 feet away from the golem.

You may use this ability once per long rest, and regain any uses after a long rest.

Hazardous Discharge (G) Prerequisites: Requires Fire or Ice

Your golem may expel hazardous ice or fire in an area around it. As an action, your golem discharges a 10-foot radius blast around it. This area counts as difficult terrain. Creatures caught in the area of effect must make a dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. On fail, they receive one of the following effects according to your golem’s attuned element.

• Fire: They take 1d6 fire damage.
• Ice: The creature falls prone.

If a creature enters the area or starts its turn in the area, it must repeat the saving throw. This effect lasts 1 round.

Crackling Weapon Prerequisites: Requires Lightning or Fire

Your golem may touch a melee weapon and confer its effects on that weapon. The effect remains for 1 hour or until your golem break concentration on it as it were concentrating on a spell. The weapon gains one of the following effects according to your golem’s attuned element.

• Lightning: Creatures hit by this weapon cannot make reactions until the start of your next turn. This ability can only activate once per turn.
• Fire: This weapon’s attacks do an additional 1d4 fire damage.

Grounded Armor Prerequisites: Requires Stone or Lightning

Your golem may touch a piece of armor and confer its effects on that armor. The effect remains for 1 hour or until your golem break concentration on it as if it were concentrating on a spell. The armor gains one of the following effects according to your golem’s attuned element.

• Stone: Increase the AC value of this armor by 1.
• Lightning: Whenever you roll a contested check to escape from a grapple, you gain a bonus equal to the intelligence modifier of the golemancer.

5th Level Upgrades

Tidal Phalanx Prerequisite: Requires Scyllan

Whenever your golem uses the Tides action to conjure a wave, any number of creatures of your choice in the area does not suffer its effects and instead, gain an amount of temporary HP equal to your intelligence modifier until the start of your next turn.

Barrage of Bronze Prerequisite: Requires Myrmidion

Creatures that are a part of your golem’s shield wall may use the following ranged attack, even if both hands are occupied.

• Bronze-tipped Feathers: Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 60/120 ft, one target, Hit: 1d6+3 piercing damage.

You gain proficiency in shields.

Wave of Gold (G) Prerequisite: Requires Midas-Touched

As an action, your golem may make a 30-foot cone attack. Creatures caught within the cone must make a Constitution saving throw. On failure, they suffer the effects described as part of the Gold option from the Wrought from Myth feature.

You may use this ability once per long rest, and regain all uses after a long rest.

Gilded Feathers Prerequisite: Requires Stymphalian

Whenever a creature is hit by your golem's attacks, the next time they make an ability check or attack roll, they must roll a d4 and subtract that much from that roll.

9th Level Upgrades

Potency

Your golem’s attacks treat immunity as resistance for any damage it deals

Earthen Guard Prerequisites: Requires Stone and Myrmidion

Creatures a part of your golem’s shield wall gain an additional +1 AC. Your golem gains +1 AC, but cannot wear armor.

Icy Barrier Prerequisites: Requires Ice and Scyllan

The ice pillar your golem creates may instead be an ice wall. This wall is now a 15 by 5-foot wall that is 10 feet tall, and creatures within 5 feet of the wall count as walking within difficult terrain. The wall has 15 AC and 30 HP and lasts for 1 minute or until it is dispelled by you as a bonus action.

Conductive Force Prerequisites: Requires Lightning and Midas-Touched

Your golem’s melee attacks deal an additional 1d6 lightning damage. In addition, whenever your golem deals lightning damage, a creature afflicted with the Midas-Touched effect takes full damage instead of half damage.

Burning Bolts Prerequisites: Requires Fire and Stymphalian

Your golem’s ranged attacks with Steel Feathers do 1d8 damage instead of 1d6. In addition, they do an additional 1d4 fire damage.

11th Level Upgrades

Nalfeshnee’s Demonic Jaunt

As a move action, your golem may teleport along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying 30 feet to an unoccupied location it can see.

Assassin Vine’s Constricting Grip

Your golem gains the following action

• Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach: 20ft., one creature. Hit: The target takes 2d6 + 4 bludgeoning damage, and it is grappled. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and it takes 2d6 poison damage at the start of each of its turns. Your golem can constrict only one target at a time this way.

Werewolf's Silver Pelt

As a bonus action, your golem can enter a lycanthropic rage, gaining resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-silvered or magical sources for 1 minute.

You may use this action once per long rest, regaining all uses on a short rest.

15th Level Upgrades

Antimagic Beam Prerequisites: Requires Gazer

Your golem may cast Counterspell or Dispel Magic once per long rest. It casts them at 4th level. You regain use of this ability after a long rest.

Dragon Wings (G) Prerequisites: Requires Dragon

Your golem gains flying speed equal to its movement speed.

Hydra Heads Prerequisites: Requires Hydra

Whenever your golem uses the Bite attack, it may use Snap and Constrict.

You may use this ability a number of times equal to your intelligence modifier. You regain all uses on a long rest.

Your golem's Bite attack gains advantage against creatures it is grappling.

Bone

A guttral roar comes from this hollow golem as it rushes into battle, building a fearsome charge as enemies pour fire downrange into it. As it's bones begin to break, it only serves to make it angrier and sharper for when it finally collides into the fray. Broken bones are only more sharp implements that serve to fuel this golem's endless well of hate.

Bone golems are made from great trauma and strong emotion, usually hate, or vengeance. Closely tied to the necromantic energies of death, golemancers who create the bone golem are typically macabre or especially driven individuals, seeking to exact revenge or see their goals achieved by any means necessary. If ambition could take living form, it'd be in the shape of a Bone Golem.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Necromancer's Grit

You may use the Simple Repairs feature on yourself or friendly creatures rather than just your golem. You regain an additional hit die on a long rest.

Blighted Touch

Whenever your golem deals damage, it may choose for that damage to be necrotic.

Inflict Suffering

Once per long rest, your golem may cast inflict wounds at 1st level. Your golem may cast this with a 2nd level spell slot at 7th, 3rd level spell slot at 13th, and 4th level spell slot at 17th level. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast inflict wounds at that level.

Spectral Claw (G)

As an attack action, your golem can use a special ranged attack to invoke a spectral claw to bring enemies closer to it. Choose a creature within 15 feet of the golem, that creature makes a Dex saving throw against your spell save DC. On fail, they are forced 15 feet toward your golem.

5th Level Upgrades

Iron Maiden

Whenever your golem gains temporary HP, it gains that much plus your intelligence modifier.

Unstoppable Advance (G)

Your golem ignores difficult terrain.

Vengeance Comes Swiftly

Whenever your golem loses HP, its speed increases by 5 until the end of its turn. This ability may activate up to three times before the start of your next turn.

9th Level Upgrades

Break Their Ranks

Whenever your golem takes damage from a creature it can see, it can mark that creature. Whenever your golem attacks a creature with a mark, it may consume it to gain a +2 to hit and deals an additional 1d6 necrotic damage.

Your golem may only have one creature marked this way.

Skeletal Grasp (G) Prerequisite: Requires Spectral Claw

When you take the attack action, Spectral Claw becomes a bonus action, and creatures who fail the saving throw may instead become restrained until the start of your next turn. A creature restrained this way may use an action against your spell save DC to break free of your golem's grasp.

A creature restrained by this effect cannot be restrained again until you complete a long rest.

Oils and Hexes

Your golem gains 1 max HP per level you have in Golemancer.

11th Level Upgrades

Darkness Rises

Once per long rest, your golem may cast spirit guardians at 3rd level. Once your golem casts spirit guardians this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast spirit guardians at that level. You maintain the concentration of this spell when cast, not your golem.

Unwavering

If your golem is adjacent to three or more hostile creatures, it gains advantage on melee attack rolls.

Dark Retribution (G)

Whenever your golem takes damage from a ranged attack, add that value to a stored pool. The maximum value of your pool is equal to your golemancer level. The next time your golem makes a damage roll, you may expend the pool to add damage equal to the stored value to one target affected by the damage roll. This pool is lost after 1 minute.

15th Level Upgrades

Inescapable Grasp (G) Prerequisite: Requires Skeletal Grasp

As an action, your golem conjures a swirling pool of dark energies to pull in foes all around. Creatures within 15 feet must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or be forced 15 feet toward your golem. Creatures within 5 feet of your golem take an additional 1d6 necrotic damage from all attacks against them. This effect lasts for 1 minute. Creatures who start their turn inside the area must repeat the saving throw.

You may use this ability once per long rest.

Undying Rage

When your golem reaches 0 HP, it does not become unconscious. Instead, for 1 minute, it continues fighting. Every time your golem takes damage, it makes a death saving throw. After 3 failed death saving throws, your golem becomes a pile of ash. Your golem cannot gain HP while at 0 HP and falls unconscious after the minute is up.

Steel

To those who are friends of the steel golem, there will never be a day where they'll ever be abandoned, for the steel golem will always be the shield in their time of need. To those who are enemies of the steel golem, there will never be a night where the bruises and battering will ever cease to ache. That is what the steel golem promises. Protector to friends, relentless adversary to enemies.

Creating a steel golem is to recognize oneself as one who needs a steel golem, somebody who is lonely or abandoned and seeks guardianship from one who is stronger and braver than oneself. The steel golem in this sense, is the loyal and couragous ally they would need. However, the steel golem represents another aspect of the golemancer: chivalry, the aspiration to do great feats without an expectation of compensation. Therefore, golemancers who create steel golems eventually stand next to their creation in battle, not behind them.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Footman

You gain proficiency in simple weapons, martial weapons, medium armor, and shields.

Welded Tight

Equipment this golem has equipped cannot be removed or disarmed unless you allow it to be.

Large Hands

Your golem can maintain a grapple with an additional creature, to a maximum of two.

Imposing

Whenever a creature moves within 5 feet of your golem, it may use a reaction to make an attack of opportunity. Creatures who take damage from this attack have their speed reduced to 0.

5th Level Upgrades

Fightning Style

Your golem gains a fighting style of your choice from the Fighter class.

Undefeated

As a bonus action, your golem may regain 1d10 HP + your golemancer level. Once you use this feature, you must take a short or long rest before you use it again.

Knockdown (G)

As an action, if your golem has a shield equipped, whenever you take the attack action, your golem may take the shove action as a bonus action.

You gain a number of uses of this ability equal to your proficiency bonus and regain all uses on a long rest.

Bladewall (G)

If your golem is two-weapon fighting, they count as having a shield equipped.

9th Level Upgrades

Discombobulate (G) Prerequisite: Requires Knockdown

Whenever your golem takes the shove action against a creature, it may instead discombobulate them. On a successful shove, instead of going prone, the creature becomes dazed. A dazed creature may only move or take a single action on its turn, and may not use a reaction or bonus actions.

Bap (G)

Whenever your golem has advantage on the attack with a two-handed weapon, you may forgo advantage to force that creature to make a constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On failure, that creature becomes stunned.

Eat This! (G) Prerequisite: Requires Bladewall

Weapons with the light property that you or your golem has equipped gain the thrown property with a range of 20/60. Weapons thrown this way return to the user’s hands after hitting their mark or missing.

11th Level Upgrades

Follow Through

Whenever your golem attacks a creature, it may impose a -3 penalty to its hit roll. If the attack hits, you add an additional +5 to that weapon’s damage.

Tough as Steel

Whenever your golem is dealt non-magical slashing, bludgeoning, or piercing damage, reduce that damage dealt to the golem by 2.

Adamantine Plating

Any critical hit against your golem becomes a normal hit.

15th Level Upgrades

That's It, Enough of You

When your golem is wielding a two-handed weapon, as an action, choose a creature within 5 feet of the golem. Your golem makes a single weapon attack against that creature. On hit, in addition to the weapon’s damage, that creature must make a dexterity saving throw. On failure, they are sent into the air to land in a space of your choice within 30 feet of you, taking 4d6 bludgeoning damage from the fall, landing prone. On success, the creature is simply sent up and back down again, taking 2d6 bludgeoning damage and not moving from their space.

Once you use this ability, you may not use this ability again until you finish a long rest.

Durand Plating

Spells that make an attack against your golem are at disadvantage and saves this golem makes against magical effects have advantage.

Iron Retort

When your golem is two-weapon fighting, as part of an attack action, your golem makes a third weapon attack. If all three weapon attacks hit against a marked creature, your golem taunts them. Creatures taunted this way may not willingly move away from your golem until the start of your turn.

Radiant

Healing, light, devotion, all fall within the purview of the Radiant Golem's gentle warmth and stained glass surfaces. At the same time, that glass can break and that warmth can turn into the heat of a god's ire. Radiant golems stand just out of the line of fire and provide their allies with the grace of their magic and the wrath of their deity.

Typically, golemancers who aspire for greater power beyond themselves end up with the radiant golem, a vision or image of the divine, given form. Sometimes they are made by the hands of the golemancer, other times they simply are statues, frescoes, stained glass, or other religious art that has been given life from the faith of the pure. To be in the presence of a radiant golem is to be in the aura of the divine, whether that divine be good or ill.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Holy Beacon

Your golem gains light as a cantrip and uses your intelligence as its spellcasting. In addition, at level 5 it may cast cure wounds as a level 1 spell. Once your golem casts cure wounds this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast cure wounds at that level.

Focused Ire

Your golem may cast guiding bolt as a level 1 spell. Once your golem casts guiding bolt this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast guiding bolt at that level. In addition, you gain proficiency in Intimidation (charisma) checks to convince others of a deity’s impending wrath if you are not heeded.

Bestow Spite

Your golem may cast bane as a level 1 spell. Once your golem casts bane this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast bane at that level. In addition, you gain advantage on saves to not get infected by a disease.

Blinded by the Light

When you or your golem are attacked by a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll, causing light to flare before the attacker hits or misses. An attacker that can't be blinded is immune to this feature.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

5th Level Upgrades

Rest for the Weary

Your golem gains a pool of hit points it can use to restore itself or other creatures. This pool is equal to your golemancer level times 2. As an action, it may touch a creature and draw power from the pool to and restore a number of hit points to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in the pool. Your pool replenishes at the end of a long rest.

Divine Aid

As you choose this upgrade, choose a cleric subclass. Your golem gains the Channel Divinity feature and may choose a Channel Divinity option from the cleric subclass you chose. When your golem uses Channel Divinity, you choose which effect to create. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again. If your Channel Divinity feature requires concentration, you maintain concentration, not your golem.

Healing Presence

Whenever a creature of your choice regains hit points within 60 feet of your golem, that creature gains that many hit points + 1 instead.

9th Level Upgrades

Manifest Weapon

Your golem may cast spiritual weapon as a level 2 spell. Once your golem casts spiritual weapon this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast spiritual weapon at that level. In addition, a friendly creature may grab onto and throw the spiritual weapon as an action, throwing the weapon with a range of 30/90.

Divine Clarity Prerequisite: Requires Divine Aid

You gain an additional use of Channel Divinity, regaining all expended uses on a short or long rest.

Rays of Justice

Your golem may cast moonbeam as a level 2 spell. Once your golem casts moonbeam this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast moonbeam at that level. In addition, allies in the area of your moonbeam spell effect do not suffer the effects and instead, gain 1d4 temporary hit points at the start of their turn if they are in the area of the effect of moonbeam. You maintain the concentration of this spell when it is cast, not your golem.

11th Level Upgrades

Warden of Vitality

Your golem may cast aura of vitality as a level 3 spell. Once your golem casts aura of vitality this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming a 3rd-level spell slot or higher to cast aura of vitality at that level. In addition, your golem gains a second bonus action that it may only use to activate aura of vitality again. You maintain the concentration of this spell when cast, not your golem.

Surging Spirits

Your golem may cast spirit guardians as a level 3 spell. Once your golem casts spirit guardians this way, it may not be cast until you finish a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming a 3rd-level spell slot or higher to cast spirit guardians at that level. In addition, you and your golem gain an additional 10 feet of walking speed. You maintain concentration on this spell, not your golem.

Blessing of Steel

Your golem may cast magic weapon as a level 4 spell. Once your golem casts magic weapon this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming a 4th-level spell slot or higher to cast magic weapon at that level.

15th Level Upgrades

Not Your Time Yet

As an action, your golem may sacrifice itself for the cause. Choose a creature within 120 feet. The target regains half of its HP, and your golem dies. You may recover your golem as normal, rebuilding it with half its HP over the course of a long rest or 8 hours.

Shackles of Sin

As an action, choose a creature within sight to be bound by the strength of their sins. Whenever your target attacks another creature except for the first attack it makes on it's turn, that creature gains +2 to their AC, and your target takes 1d4 radiant damage. A creature may only gain the benefit of AC once, but your target always takes 1d4 radiant damage on an attack.

Crystalline

Sight is the sense that most creatures rely on for everything. Body language is half a conversation, most text can only be read with your eyes, and not your touch. Combat is much the same, and the crystalline golem is one who uses their sight beyond sight to deliver swift death to enemies far away.

The crystalline golem is created by golemancers who are one of two things: afraid of their problems, put survival above all things or lost underground. Seriously. The first two are self explanatory I feel, so let me explain that being lost underground in caverns is a completely different experience. There's the isolation, the desperation, and the teeming threat that comes not just from the fauna, but from the very environment itself. Crystalline golems are made of a material found down in the deeps and simultaneously can deal with whatever's down there.

Unrestricted Upgrades

Amplifying Palisade

Your golem may, as an action, erect a magical wall of prismatic reflectivity within 10 feet of it. This wall is 15 feet long and 5 feet wide. It possesses an ethereal quality to its surface and can be passed through as if nothing were in its space. Whenever you or your golem makes a ranged attack that passes through either side of the wall, increase the damage dealt by that attack by 2.

Reactive Composition

Whenever your golem takes damage, as a reaction it may gain resistance to that damage type until the start of your turn.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses on a long rest.

Seeking

You and your golem’s ranged attack range is doubled.

Steady (G)

If your golem hasn’t moved since its last turn, the first ranged attack it makes gains advantage.

5th Level Upgrades

Watchful Eye

Your golem may cast hunter’s mark as a level 1 spell. Once your golem casts hunter’s mark this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming one of your spell slots to cast hunter’s mark at that level. You maintain the concentration of this spell when cast, not your golem. In addition, both you and your golem gain the benefits of hunter’s mark, rather than just you or your golem.

Crystalline Aegis

Whenever a creature within 5 feet of your golem is targeted by a ranged attack and the dice is rolled, but before the DM declares whether or not the attack hits, your golem as a reaction can grant that creature +5 AC to that attack.

Once your golem uses this ability, it may not use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Greater Amplifying Palisade Prerequisite: Requires Amplifying Palisade

Amplifying Palisade’s length is increased to 20 feet. Ranged attack damage is increased by your Intelligence modifier instead. Creatures of your choice may also gain the benefits of the palisade.

Eye for Detail (G)

Your golem’s ranged attacks may score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

9th Level Upgrades

Ruinous Blast (G)

Whenever your golem attacks with Ruin, it may instead replace that attack with a 60-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d8+2 piercing damage, and half as much on a successful save.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, regaining all uses on a long rest.

Inescapable Assailment (G)

Your golem may target creatures within Assail’s range, even if they do not see them. Creatures do not benefit from cover as Assail’s projectiles curve around obstacles to find their target. Whenever a creature enters 80 feet of your golem, they must make a Stealth (dexterity) roll against your Perception (wisdom) roll. If they fail, you learn of their location for the next minute.

Coordinated Volley (G)

As an action, as long as your golem has Barrage equipped, it may designate 3 friendly creatures and a target within 120 feet. Those creatures may use their reactions to make a ranged attack against the target.

Once you use this feature, you must take a short or long rest to use it again.

Dispersal

Your golem may cast counterspell as a level 3 spell. Once your golem casts counterspell this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest. Your golem may cast this spell again by consuming a 3rd-level spell slot or higher to cast counterspell at that level.

11th Level Upgrades

Gemcutter's Technique

Increase the die size of your golem's ranged attacks by one die size. For example, Piercing Crystal becomes 1d12+3 rather than 1d10+3.

Mirrored Might Prerequisite: Requires Amplifying Palisade

Whenever a friendly creature casts a spell with a ranged spell attack that passes through the Amplifying Palisade, increase the damage of that spell attack by your intelligence modifier. In addition, that spell may select an additional target within range and make a spell attack roll against them.

Once you use this ability, you may not use it again until you finish a long rest.

All Seeing Eye

Your golem gains true sight.

15th Level Upgrades

Inescapable Sight (G) Prerequisites: Requires Eye for Detail

Your golem’s ranged attacks may score a critical hit on a roll of 18, 19, or 20.

Barrage of Shards

Whenever your golem uses Crystalline Focus, instead of designating an area to watch over, simply make an attack against each creature in the area of effect for Crystalline Focus. Once you use this ability, you may not use it again until a long rest.

Generic Upgrades

11th Level Upgrades

Extra Attack

Your golem may attack twice, instead of once, whenever it takes the attack action on its turn.

Hands to Help

You learn the flock of familiars spell and may cast it without expending a spell slot as if you had cast it from a level 3 slot. When you cast the spell this way, it does not require concentration nor does it have a duration, effectively giving you four familiars. These familiars are made of the same material as your golem.

My Will Be Done

Whenever you cast a spell through your golem with Arcane Recognition or an upgrade, your golem can use a reaction to attack the target of the spell if it has a single target. You may use this upgrade a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.

Greater Good

When your golem is reduced to 0 HP, it conflagrates into a death blast. Each creature within 10 feet of your golem must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, they take 7d6 fire damage, and half as much on a successful save. This damage increases by 1d6 at 13th level, and every other level after that. Your golem is left dead and requires a long rest or a form of resurrection as normal to get it back to working condition.

15th Level Upgrades

Angel Protocol

The first time your golem would be reduced to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw. On success, it instead stays at 1 hit point.

Once you use this ability, you may not use it again until you complete a long rest.

Living Forge

Your golem may cast fabricate at 4th level, but the raw materials must be made of the same material as your golem is made from. Your golem may substitute those materials with itself, generating those materials from its body at no cost to it. Once your golem casts fabricate this way, it may not cast it again until you complete a long rest.

Artificial Life Requires Awareness Engine

Your Golem begins to apply its abilities to learn new things, gaining one level in a class of your choice. Your Golem gains all the 1st-level features of the chosen class. This doesn’t include hit points, Hit Dice, or class proficiencies.

For example, choosing the Fighter class grants the golem the Fighting Style and Second Wind features, but nothing else. You can select this upgrade multiple times, granting your golem another level of features from the same class or the 1st-level features from another class each time it is selected.

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