#bone golem

[dailycharacteroption]

Ice Chemist (Alchemist Archetype)

(art by MagicalKaleidoscope on DeviantArt)

Do we have any Mr. Freeze fans in the audience. (We can all agree he should be called “Dr. Freeze”, right?)

Jokes aside, it’s often easy to assume that alchemists are “mad bombers” or pyromaniacs since they by default get fire-based weaponry as one of their core class features, but what if you don’t want that?

While fire and explosions are certainly very fancy and flashy, the sciences of chilling things, of cryogenics, are also very worthwhile. After all, We all know how refrigeration and freezing revolutionized food preservation, confectionary arts, and even medical science in the real world, so it only makes sense there would be alchemists exploring the applications of such in a fantasy game!

These so-called “ice chemists” Are most well-known for starting with icy cold bombs, but that is just the beginning! Later on they… well… they, um…

Huh. Aside from certain damaging extracts, there aren’t a lot of options directly related to cold in the ice chemist’s arsenals, and even those you have to choose to take as part of your normal spell selection.

Not that I mind such a simple archetype that only changes a little, but I feel like the ice chemist could have used a little expansion, at least being some optional discoveries that let them use their cryogenic arts in interesting ways. But we’ll get into making the most of your ice chemist later on. For now, let’s look at what they can do!

At it’s core, the ice chemist does exactly as promised, changing the base bomb damage to cold, but otherwise functioning as normal bombs except that they don’t count as being frost bombs with their secondary effect at first, learning to use fire bombs counts as a discovery (including not being able to be used alongside other bomb-altering discoveries), and being unable to use the explosive or inferno bomb discoveries.

They also gain an inherent resistance to cold and can comfortably live in extreme cold as their bodies are altered and adapted to function where others would freeze.

And then they learn the frost-bomb discovery, purely to add the bonus effect to their bombs.

As you can see, aside from the resistance and cold damage, there isn’t a whole lot going on here, but it can serve as a good basis for a thematic character. Extracts like detonate, elemental touch, and dragon breath can make them somewhat good at damage dealing. Meanwhile, in keeping with the themes of cold and preservation, the various discoveries based around healing oneself and becoming more resilient through self-mummification are thematic choices. In the end, you can mostly build them like any other alchemist, but hopefully this plants some thematic seeds.

When I made the comparisons to Mr. Freeze earlier, that wasn’t a shallow take. Yes, these chemists alter their bodies to be comfortable well below freezing temperatures, but much like the aforementioned Dr. Victor Fries, there’s a lot of ways you can play such a character, their hearts could be metaphorically frozen, feeling little beyond dispassionate determination. Or they might have a secret, tragic warm spot, or perhaps unhealthy obsession. Or they may buck all of that to be passionate and kind despite being icy cold beings.

An unnatural chill has come to the forest of Arnu’s Sleep. Some suspect the machinations of a winter fey or a white dragon driven by rivals from the north. However the truth is stranger, a mad doctor experimenting with the creation of artificial winter, regardless of the toll it takes on the surrounding region.

For centuries, the lair of Luciana the Frozen has stood as part dungeon, part museum of the icy alchemists many discoveries over her career, even long after her death. Those who brave it will have to contend with ice-encrusted bone golems and other frosty guardians, to say nothing of the alchemist herself, preserved in lich-like immortality with a literal heart of ice.

Unusual for a leshy, Needlebranch enjoys winter more than any other season, and seeks to unlock the secrets of plant life that thrives in winter, from the mundane pines and cedars, to exotic flowers that poke out of mountain snow, and beyond.

[chronivore]

Golem, Bone

[phobiato2]

Got some cool minis from para bellum games, wargame conquest.

These are bone golems, and they are honestly so cool, I decided to try some additions of candles and extra skulls to this first one and I think it really pulls it together.

Texture paint Stirland mud for detail less surfaces, blizzard for spots where I want to have some moss growing, and bloodgod (because I had no hardcoat) for candle wax. The mud and the blizzard ended up looking the same after a basecoat so that's something to keep in mind.

I'm gonna paint more from para bellum and post them as well.

[highwaytothedungeonzone]

Briefly returning to painting some fantasy stuff to use in games of Five Leagues from the Borderlands. This will be used as an undead construct. The miniature was one of the metal figures that Wizkids made for Mage Knight years ago. On another note, I don't think my new phone is as good at taking pictures of minis as my old phone.

[lemaistrechat]

One of my favorite Castlevania bosses, aesthetically.

It reminds me of Modulok from Masters of the Universe.

[dndcreaturesinfo]

Bone Golem by Critical Crafting

[the-punforgiven]

YOOOO Love that funky kick move in the trailer too, if that's a new fist weapon I'm gonna be so hyped

[jestiamy]

just finished reading @twstyuna's fic blood and bone and heart of stone and felt the need to highlight the fact ace's initial assumption of. yeah this is definite nepotism. was not that much of a jump actually spoilers for chapter 19 and appropriate levels of gore mentions for it below cut

I typically don't really do fanart for more rural and specific stuff like fanfictions over fandoms because it's like. my art is really. static. not really outstanding or anything. and it's easier to get lost in the crowd of "tons of art for popular game" vs "one of the like twenty total art pieces for super specific fanfiction I like" but the leona scene where golem!yuu rips out their molar and presents it to him as a gift really just stuck out to me. I did make a sketch of that but I was like. you know for someone really bad at gore this somehow ends up the topic of a lot of my art. I should go find something else. so after getting a drawing ref of golem!yuu I was like !!!! oh wow yeah they really do look like crowley huh. so I went for this instead

[bluebudgie]

So since I still love comparing languages and voice acting I have (once again) recorded a few asura reaper and deadeye voice lines.

Turns out trying to get the same deadeye lines across 3 languages and then matching them is actually a bit more annoying than anticipated, so have the reaper ones for now:

Obviously I'm very biased for what I am used to hearing while playing, but the english voice definitely goes really hard as well. Unfortunately never managed to warm up much to the french one during gameplay but maybe someone out here will be a fan!

[sparrowmarieminis]

Working on a Thing

Bronze Golem by Reaper Miniatures. Released last month. Still need to do up the base but I'm happy with how it looks so far.

[twstyuna]

Finally had a chance to sit down and appreciate the newest chapter in its entirety and oooooooooh boy. Yet another Senior added to Team "Should I Be Worried About This? I Should Be Worried About This".

Poor Cater. Just. Walks into a bathroom to deliver an invitation and. Yeah.

Same vibes. Only blood and ink. Not pizza and as much fire.

Super excited to see if the run-in with Leona'll go the same way as in canon or if Leona, for once, uses his braincells and decides "This thing smells dead, not messing with that." Maybe Yuu won't be ruining another shirt this day.

Also, are they gonna mug a Pomefiore student to get a purple gem for Grim??

I had to doodle I HAD TO-

Welcome to the team Cater!

The run-in will happen! Leona may be a bit OOC but at this point I think that's just a natural side effect of the latent radiation of golem!Yuu's golemy Yuuness. Why are you so close sempai how are you reading my brain sempai get out of my head sempai RAISE THE ALERTS THEY CAN SEE WHERE IT'S GOING

Anyway there is a scene with Leona that I've been wanting to do for AGES. Here's hoping it brings some kind of emotion because I giggle like a maniac at the thought of it.

Aaand back to the newest member of the Concerned Club. He did not sign up to be part of it but we know there's no escape now! Bit more curious than concerned at the moment though. Let's see how long it lasts! May curiosity not kill the Cater!

Cater also owes Yuu a shirt! The true victims of Blood and Bone are clothing!

I swear I don't have a show-the-vest-agenda it just happens to be that deuce didn't want his jacket getting wet and Ace's keeps getting messed up hjghjhhj

There will hopefully(!) be no muggings! Let's keep hoping! Our resident golemsitters and crow man sure do!

[stromuprisahat]

Thoughts on nichevoya=golems?

My first answer was no, I pictured the clay man from Císařův pekař a pekařův císař, baking bread for the people...

But I looked at wiki for less fairytale-y informations and:

The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th-century rabbi of Prague, also known as the Maharal, who reportedly "created a golem out of clay from the banks of the Vltava River and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations to defend the Prague ghetto from anti-Semitic attacks and pogroms".[16][17] Depending on the version of the legend, the Jews in Prague were to be either expelled or killed under the rule of Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor. 

They're not the same, I doubt LB wrote them as such, unless she was trying to say mythical Jewish protectors were evil, but there are similarities.

They're made by powerful leader of people oppressed over a long period of time, who happen to be in greater danger than usual. They're made by unconventional, for ordinary mortals forbidden, means.

The greatest difference is golem was made out of ordinary material, brought into life by said magic, while nichevo'ya are almost completely merzost-made out of the Darkling's own being. Horrifying way to protect others.

[lastenline]

Painted a parasaurolopus kyūdō style archer and a stained glass knight/golem.

[zebrafeatherah]

A "high-functioning bone golem" as opposed to an undead.

Lali's a skeleton that enjoy's fashion.

[lonehuna]

Knight of Bone

[probablybadrpgideas]

A bearfolk warrior is eaten whole by a dragon but through sheer force of will resurrects as an ursine Dung Golem wielding a mace of undigested bones. thus begins The Shitty Adventures of Wynni the Poo

Ah, so this is what happens when something enters public domain