Crafted from inert materials and animated through powerful arcane rituals or divine magic, golems were fearsome constructs with incredible defenses. These artificial beings possessed immense strength, resilience, and unwavering obedience to the commands of their creators.They often were made to protect dungeons, ruins, or magical laboratories. Their implacable nature and immunity to many forms of magic made them formidable opponents, requiring creative strategies or specialized tactics to overcome their formidable defenses. Though they were powerful, the transmutative magic animating the golem was similar to that of an Animated Object; with enough physical force, the magic could be broken.
As constructs, golems were innately immune to a number of attacks; among these were mind-altering magics, poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects, as well as most spells. Confronting a golem in battle often required combatants to exploit its weaknesses, such as vulnerabilities to specific types of magic, environmental hazards, or methods of disassembly prescribed in ancient texts or lore.