Why do I bother anymore?

[yamikuronue]

We're playing in a fantasy setting. We're all (no exceptions*) playing magi who create and enchant golems or else the golems themselves. The most advanced things in the entire game scientifically are clockwork creatures and steam engines

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[xiphias]

Oooh. . . SAND GOLEMS! Individual grains of sand that are each golems. Or even dust mote golems.

It has possibilities. . .

[hamsterhotep]

Ah, wasn't just me whose brain went there, then.

Well, if not nanite size, then small ant/beetle-shaped golems that arrange themselves into rods, cogs and associated clockwork...

[lodo_bear]

Now there's a thought. Tiny magical mechanical bugs seem within the realm of possibility. OP, check us on this: does your world allow for very small and intricate clockwork, such as would be required to make an ant-golem?

[yamikuronue]

It's been established in some RP lines that making miniaturized golems is highly dangerous because the amount of power a normal-sized power source puts out overloads them and makes them likely to explode, and creating new power sources has also lead to explosions. Though if someone wanted to make nano-golems, I suspect they'd just ignore the earlier threads.

[lodo_bear]

Oh boy! Exploding nanobots!

Well, no hive-mind golems for any of us. Too bad.

[darkmoon_light]

Hmmm...what about normal sized golems, that after construction have a shrink spell applied (several times, likely) and a permanency spell? That way, a wizard would have to have done it.

[yamikuronue]

That sounds like the kind of thinking I wish my players employed ^_^

[darkmoon_light]

Yay!