Half-Golem PC & post-creation templates

[Malapterus]

Half-Golem is an inherited template that has no LA, Lynanthrope is one that does.

As a DM, how would you rule inheriting these templates on an existing character? Would you stick them with sn adjustment, or are they just lucky?

Half-Holem in particular has a purchase price, so is having that paid enough to satisfy the balance?

[Telonius]

Monster Manual 2 (the source of the Half-Golem template) was affected by the 3.0-3.5 update. According to the update booklet, the half-golems are all LA -, not LA 0, so they're not supposed to be for players.

[Crow_Nightfeath]

They do have the price for Making them. In my games if anyone wants to play a half golem they have to buy it. It's pretty expensive if I remember right.

[noob]

Since it got la _ now then it means that the amount of xp when you have en encounter is not defined anymore because your ecl becomes _ which then makes the square to refer for xp gain impossible to find(since there is no _ line) and also makes that the amount of xp for reaching the next level be _.
So when you solve an encounter then the game have no defined behavior at all just because you bought a 20000 gp arm to replace the arm you lost.
Basically do not put la _ on a template that is supposed to be so easy to get that it is supposed to replace a casting of regeneration(since it is the fluff of the template: it is for replacing lost limbs)


Half-golems are the results of good-intentioned actions taken too far. While the application of a poultice infused with curative herbs or the casting of a spell can save the life of an injured or diseased person, only powerful magic can replace a missing limb. Such magic is often beyond the reach of the ordinary person working in a quarry or a mill, or scything a field of grain, who suffers the loss of one or more limbs.

Arcane artisans applied their knowledge of golem construction to come up with a way to restore such a person to wholeness. While the initial results were promising, there was a limit to the effectiveness of the technique - many people who received one or more new limbs through this process proved unable to withstand the trauma of the transformation and became permanently evil as a result. Individuals of evil intent now exploit this limitation, purposely creating ravening, unholy crosses between living beings and golems.
Yep: it is supposed to replace a casting of regenerate.
regenerate costs 910 gp to buy as a spellcasting service.
You can also use greater planar binding to get some celestial to cast it if you are a wizard which is in fact not so hard since you can write a scroll of it at low level.

[ExLibrisMortis]

Half-golem is inherited? I don't think so. You have to craft and attach a golem part to a creature to turn it into a half-golem.

[Crow_Nightfeath]

Uhh.. no, the cheapest one is 10,000 gp and 250 XP half flesh golem. Clay is 12,000gp 250xp, stone is 16,000 gp 320 XP, and iron is 20,000 gp and 400 XP.

[noob]

Sorry forgot a 0.
It still is cheap relatively to the improvement.

[Crow_Nightfeath]

Yeah, though -6 to intelligence and charisma, and a will save to not become a mindless killing machine tend to keep this template as a specific character idea kind of template.

[noob]

you can use a luck feat to be 100% sure of succeeding to the save.
Or be a crusader.

[Malapterus]

Yeah, though -6 to intelligence and charisma, and a will save to not become a mindless killing machine tend to keep this template as a specific character idea kind of template.

I think the character that wants this is already a mindless killing machine