Editing Half-Golem

'''Half-Golems''' are, despite the name, nothing like the [[Half-Fiend]] or [[Half-Dragon]] you may be familiar with from [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Instead, a half-golem is a [[magitek]] [[Adeptus_Mechanicus|cyborg]]; a living creature augmented by replacing limbs with [[golem|artificial limbs animated by magic]], and sometimes incorporating other artificial implants for increased armor or stability.

The half-golem as a concept dates all the way back to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], were a single "half-[[Flesh Golem]]" appeared as a unique NPC in the [[Ravenloft]] setting. In [[3e]], the half-golem appeared as a racial template in the [[Monster Manual]] 2. This was then followed by a web enhancement detailing further types of half-golem than those listed in the original MM2 entry.

"The Year of Rogue Dragons" trilogy of novels for the [[Forgotten Realms]] setting featured a Half-Iron Golem named Dorn Graybrook as their protagonist.

[[Dragonmech]] features the Steamborg class, which is literally a guy who transforms themselves into a [[magitek]] [[steampunk]] half-golem by spreading it over 20 class levels.

[[Eberron]] features the Self-Forged, a prestige class in 3e and a [[Paragon Path]] for [[Artificer]]s in 4e representing a guy so enamored with [[magitek]] and [[construct]]s that he progressively swaps out more and more of his original fleshy body for an artificial one, ending up as a living construct.

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