If you could make a golem out of one thing....

[NecroDancer]

If you could build a golem using one material what would it by and why?

I'd make mine out of liquid metal (think Terminator T-1000 only more semi-solid and it always looks chrome). Not only would it be great for infiltration (squeezing through cracks) but it would be just as deadly if a fight started.

It would probably have some way to launch "bullets" at its foes.

[Braininthejar2]

Ball bearings - It could move and fight like an ordinary golem, roll for increased speed, or shoot things by launching salvos of balls out of its body before sweeping over the area to pull itself back together.

[Quertus]

Well, my favorite most powerful was probably the planar boundary golem. One of my characters found a tower built out of sculpted planar boundary. He researched it, and later built a golem out of the indestructible material.

Actually, I take that back - the most powerful was much like your liquid metal golem, but not for the same reason. It was largely because it could split. Part of it maintained contact with an artifact, while part of it pretended to be a ring on my character's finger. This enabled my character to get certain of the artifacts' benefits, while keeping said artifact somewhere safe.

But as to what I'd want? Depends on the character. Personally? Probably video games. Although a golem made out of the crushed hopes and dreams of my enemies would be nice, too.

[root]

Why not a golem golem?

Every time someone hits it strong enough, a progressively smaller golem separates.

Now that I think about it, some kind of an ooze golem would be interesting to say the least. All the qualities of an ooze attached to a mechanical creature that, while not sentient, follows commands with robotic precision.

[Kane0]

Mithantine alloy. Strong and durable like adamantine, flexible amd light like mithril

[Vitruviansquid]

Could I build a golem out of pure existential horror?

Because that's what I want my opponents to be confronted with as often as possible.

[SethoMarkus]

Flubber. A golem made of flubber, I think, would be unstoppable (and fun!).

[Zaydos]

Gods. I want a deific flesh golem. I know where to find the bodies

[The Glyphstone]

Cotton candy. Guard and tasty snack in one package.

[root]

I'm pretty sure there's a statblock for a pizza golem somewhere...

[Beleriphon]

Plutonium golem for that glow in the dark win.

[Fable Wright]

Possibility 1: Dreamstuff golem. Specifically, made from your dreams. You dream it, the golem becomes it, logic and geometry be damned. Remember to watch horror movies and/or take ranks in lucid dreaming for maximum effect.

Possibility 2: Protomatter golem. Change its composition with shaping efforts!

Possibility 3: Relativistic metal golem. In other words, riverine containing an entity with enough kinetic energy inside it to bring Armageddon to anyone who manages to breach its outer layer.

[Strigon]

Possibility 1: Dreamstuff golem. Specifically, made from your dreams. You dream it, the golem becomes it, logic and geometry be damned. Remember to watch horror movies and/or take ranks in lucid dreaming for maximum effect.

Now why does that sound familiar...? (Warning: Mature Language)

In any case, I'd make it out of the stuff the One Ring was made of.
You think it's tough getting a ring to Mound Doom? Try getting a 10 foot tall behemoth that's ripping your arms off there

[Alent]

Yellow magic clay sphere things.

[Segev]

How about Beholder Eyes?

[MrZJunior]

I would go with planetary bodies. If those work out you can work your way up to controlling entire galaxies as golems.

[The Glyphstone]

I'm pretty sure there's a statblock for a pizza golem somewhere...

A oneshot adventure for D&D3.5 had a calzone golem, but that's it.

[Talakeal]

I put a golem made out of light in the last campaign I ran. The PCs were not amused...

[Verbannon]

Sugar, Spice, Everything Nice and Chemical X. :p

[Kitten Champion]

A golem composed entirely of sick beats. Just sapient sound which follows you around, serving as your living soundtrack.

[5ColouredWalker]

Orbs of Annihilation, for when one needs to kill the wizard AND the fighter.

[GorinichSerpant]

I would make a golem out of desire simply to see what that would do, I'd also attempt to make one out of rationality or thought for similar reasons.

[Doomboy911]

Baby golem, let's see the paladin fight it.

[Marillion]

Toenail clippings.

Not just any toenail clippings, either. Only the finest thick yellow specimens that you need a cleaver to trim and are covered in putrid fungus. The ones that become impossibly sharp when you cut them. Tougher than adamantine, natural weapons more keen than obsidian, and it forces Constitution, Will, and possibly Sanity checks out the wazoo.

The strongest? No. The easiest to assemble? No. Pleasant to have near? Not even a little bit! But who among us could gird our loins and our stomachs long enough to face such a foul construction?

And it's fellow guardian? A golem made of damp hair collected from shower drains across the land.

[the OOD]

C4/enhanced plastic explosives. carrying enough explosives for a mission was a big problem before our caster learned golemcraft.

other smash-hits by the same caster include the Paper-Crane Golem, Knife Golem and the dreaded Bee Golem.
discussion of a bullet-golem was tabled when we got a bag of holding(fill it with a belt for an LMG, and never reload again) but that might get used at some point.
a Paperwork Golem, Crap Golem and several Teddy-Bear Golems have also appeared.

but ultimately, nothing beats the Enhanced Plastic Explosive golem.

[Melville's Book]

Depends on if I can break the golem back down into its consituent parts or not.

If I can, I'd probably just want one made out of players who like all of the systems I want to GM.

Failing that, I'll take one made out of dioxygen difluoride mixed with hydrogen fluoride. It explodes out violently onto my enemies, at which point they catch on fire and all their organic tissue dissolves starting with their lungs and corneas.

Or getting more metaphysical, I'd take a golem made of pure good looks... Oh wait, I just described myself. *hair flip*

[Cluedrew]

I would go for the traditional clay. Few side effects and still strong enough for all common uses. Might not hold up in combat as well but I don't get into that many fights.

[Anderlith]

Solar Golem, grossly incandesent.

Or Shadow Golem

Or, a golem made from refined solid state magic
Sorcery Golem

[Quertus]

Gods. I want a deific flesh golem. I know where to find the bodies

That one's cool... until the dead god comes back to life.

Possibility 1: Dreamstuff golem. Specifically, made from your dreams. You dream it, the golem becomes it, logic and geometry be damned. Remember to watch horror movies and/or take ranks in lucid dreaming for maximum effect.

The problem with harvesting your own dreams is that, then, you no longer have your dreams. Clearly, this is a job for Mind Rape. Give someone else identical dreams, and harvest those.

In any case, I'd make it out of the stuff the One Ring was made of.
You think it's tough getting a ring to Mound Doom? Try getting a 10 foot tall behemoth that's ripping your arms off there

I think the One Ring was only difficult to destroy because of the setting. I mean, even a lowly dragon could have melted the thing - pity they just killed off the last one right before they needed it.

So, although yours is undeniably cooler, and likely has way better powers, I'll stick with my planar boundary golem for durability.

[Zaydos]

That one's cool... until the dead god comes back to life.

I don't make it from an FR god, few others go popping back and forth... also it's questionable what happens to the astral plane corpses when that happens, as no githyanki cities have been reported as destroyed that way. Also remember flesh golems are made out of 5 or 6 different people. You can't make 'em with just one

Though in more seriousness. THAT'S PART OF THE BEAUTY OF IT. EITHER THE REVIVAL OF A GOD REQUIRES THE REUNIFICATION OF BODY AND SOUL AND I HAVE MADE THAT MORE DIFFICULT FOR NOT 1 BUT 5 OF MY ENEMIES, OR IT DOES NOT AND I NOW HAVE WHAT IS PROBABLY THE BEST WEAPON WITH WHICH TO FIGHT THE NEWLY REVIVED GOD, ITS OWN LEFT HAND!!!!!

I think the One Ring was only difficult to destroy because of the setting. I mean, even a lowly dragon could have melted the thing - pity they just killed off the last one right before they needed it.

The one ring was made of simple gold. What gave it its durability was its enchantment and the investiture within it of a large part of Sauron's very being/soul. So either you're making it out of a solar's essence, or you're making it out of gold, both of which are pretty easy to destroy in 3.5.

So, although yours is undeniably cooler, and likely has way better powers, I'll stick with my planar boundary golem for durability.

Where as this is only difficult to destroy because of setting in that default planar cosmology for D&D doesn't have physical planar boundaries (the planes are infinite or permeate into each other). The closest is the material of Crystal Spheres from 2e Spelljammer which divide Primes from each other (and the Rainbow Sea), and which is... indestructible, though there were creatures said to be made from it and they could be hurt and killed. Still pretty resilient stuff.