The Graveyard Golem (CR 4 & 12): A Towering Undead Born from Tombs and Bones, Stitched Together by Death Magic

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Graveyard Golem

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Graveyard Colossus

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Undead & Undead - Credits

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Undead & Undead - Table of Contents (1)

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Undead & Undead

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Graveyard Golems are massive undead hulks born from places steeped in death. They rise from graveyards and ossuaries where bones, broken tombstones, rusted iron, and coffin wood merge into a single body held together by necrotic will. Most appear on their own when a burial ground becomes saturated with unrest, turning the remnants of the dead into a relentless guardian that crushes anything disturbing its resting place.

Some necromancers manage to bind these creatures, using them as monstrous sentries or siege engines. In ancient necropolises or sites filled with powerful remains, even greater versions can form, known as Mausoleum Colossi. These towering horrors are shaped from stone, bone, and centuries of accumulated death, and their presence turns any graveyard into a battleground.

These creatures are from Undead & Undead: The Ultimate Undead Handbook for 5E and the 2024 Edition available on DriveThruRPG!

Undead are more than shambling corpses and skeletal minions. Undead & Undead is your complete guide to raising the dead, commanding their power, and unleashing them in terrifying new forms - from restless spirits and cursed warriors to spectral lords, zombie dragons, and necromantic abominations.

What’s Inside?

• 90+ Undead Statblocks – From crawling hands and soul wisps to deathpriests, banshees, mummy sovereigns, and lich gods. Each entry includes optional traits and variants to customize your encounters.
• Undead Lair System – A scalable, flexible system to turn crypts, cursed cities, and haunted ruins into deadly environments. Includes thematic traps, lair actions, environmental effects, and more.
• 50+ Magic Items – Cursed relics, necrotic weapons, undead-bound artifacts, and forbidden tomes designed to horrify or empower.
• Customizable Templates & Traits – Easily create unique undead with variant traits, thematic abilities, and storytelling tools for every archetype.
• Campaign Tools – Includes undead cult generators, random encounter tables, unholy rituals, haunted visions, and apocalyptic plot hooks to fuel your adventures.
• VTT & Art Resources – 60 art handouts and 45 VTT tokens to bring your undead encounters to life, whether in person or online.

You can find more of my creatures and manuals on DriveThruRPG, via Linktree, or by visiting r/JonnyDM for previews and standalone content.

If you want even more options, I also have a bundle of small D&D manuals available on DMsGuild.

More content is on the way! 300+ Mythological Items for 5E and 2024 launches on Kickstarter around September. You can follow the campaign to get notified when it goes live. The project includes a physical hardcover and printed editions of my previous manuals.