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I'm glad you're still here too.

Honestly I'm probably a pretty bad source for this stuff. I've only been observant starting recently.

I only saw the first page of a really bad one, but, yeah, they did worse than just happen to include a sex move. It was orientated around having a "master" and it was this whole BDSM thing. 

It's the focus on being a teenager/relationships. From what I understand -- and I'm not an expert by any means, very new to being observant -- the golem isn't really a... person? Well, they are, but not in the teenaged way. Closer to Baymax from Big Hero Six, or, hell, Superman, if you focus on the superhuman strength, the protecting, as well as the investigative journalism as Clark Kent, since golems are as much investigators as they are physical protectors. They're a response to blood libel-- accusations that the Jewish people are doing human sacrifice of good Christian children-- and part of that means being a physical boundary between us and those who seek to persecute, but another, equally important part, is finding the true perpetrators of the crimes. That dual purpose is why I think they'd be a better fit for a game like Monster of the Week. 

It's less that you had something the others were missing as much as you had the wisdom to take out the sex move and not make it a weird BDSM thing.  If this sounds like the bar is literally on the floor... yeah. Yeah, it kind of is. 

Honestly, I don't think golems are good in monsterhearts, but in comparison to some of the *other* homebrew of them I've seen... this gets the thumbs up from me. 

Golems are not monsters and they are not yours to write about.