D&D Warforged are Bad (and how to make them better)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I love D&D Warforged and robots, so why is the title of the video like this?
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Hey, could you make a video on the bloodhunter?
In 3.5 the warforged had a way bigger issue with free time, as it was canon that they would actually go insane if they didn't have something to do with their free time. No really, they'd start getting unbalanced and nutty because their minds didn't have something to do all the time, they would get literally stir crazy.
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Warforged techpriest?
If I may ask, but will you ever release the Hellish Adepts sheet and "How to make D&D ACTUALLY Scary" sheet?
You said in the "How to make D&D ACTUALLY Scary" video that it would be coming last weekend and it has been quite a while since the devil video. I DON'T want you to rush or feel presured in any way shape or form, but it would be nice to know if you're still working on them in the backround or if it doesn't make sense to go back to them each time you upload. Other than that, I'll just say that I love your stuff and hope to see more epic content form you in the future!
Pointy hat: “Make a dog robot you coward!”
Artificer Battle Smith with a Mastiff Steel Defender: “Okay…”
My Warforged Character does this but it's a robot badger instead of a doggo 😂
@@mikachan365 Images of a kind of grumpy yet lovable clawed metallic creature, with the extra ability to use it's claws to dig trough ground and rock at near missile speed, comes to mind from that.
Cool!
I once played a sentient Steel Predator based on Bladewolf from MGR Revengeance
You could also being PHYSICALLY a dog-like humanoid, with a dog head and a tail that maybe moves when healed or while in combat if they likes it
My warforged part-artificer has a mechanical falcon as his homunculus which, if inactive, folds up into what looks like an intricately fashioned plate of armor protecting his neck. And when it activates (unless directed to skip the boot-up-sequence and act immediately) it unfolds and with its wings forms what looks like a metal-halo behind the character's head before it flies off to do whatever the character needs done. I am probably not going to go further into Artificer than the two levels he currently has, because most of the perks of the various subclasses he already has from other sources (Battlemaster-8/Barbarian-1/War-Wizard-2/Artificer-2)
"From the moment I learned of the weakness of the flesh, it disgusted me. There is no strength in flesh, only failure. There is no constancy in flesh, only decay. There is no certainty in flesh save death."
The Augmented will be perfect for an Adeptus Mechanicus character!
I was lowkey expecting the Mechanicus intro to drop somewhere in the section about the Augmented
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That line is metal af
It makes me happy when someone in a UA-cam comment section mentions warhammer
You could also play with a maddoc from warhammer.
Those are the crazy ork doctors who give their patients weird cybernetics.
Hello little friend
You cheeky boy
Leave me alone you will never understand me
Goddamnit, Yamato. goddamnit
Hello, big friend.
Get in the robot?
I like that with The Augmented, you can incorporate the flavor into feats you might take. I’m already imagining my character with Blind Fighting having prosthetic eyes installed after losing his sight.
Thematicaly, my warforged armorer artificer was my favourite character. Being able to "integrate" my arcane armor and modefy it made me fell like a REAL robot.
Bro i also amde a armorror artificer warforged
@@namethefifth7315 It makes three of us
@@ZelphTheWebmancer lets go. Well technically it was a person turned into a rat that built a warforged body to pilot around but still
I went with artillery artificier since I love the idea of the turret being launched out of the warforged body
I honestly think warforged artificers are just one of the coolest and most flavorful options for them especially since it specifically says in the eberron book That sometimes war forged seek out artificers to make modifications to themselves. I can honestly see a character that is a war forged artificer who does surgery for other war forged to help them better adjust to their new life and attain forms that they are more comfortable with
For me a simple way to fix the no sleep issue is the following: Make it so that they do need to let their bodies rest, but their consciousness doesn't shut off. Think of it sort of like being idle in a game
Edit: Also I legit play my warforged like a golden retriever most of the time, he's way too trusting. Also he doesn't know what being fancy is in the slightest, because when my party had to go to a banquet he just stuck a bunch of ties and bowties around himself
I'm thinking of running a warforged made by the best artificer in the world the fastest most effective body guard ruthless in killing and protecting fast, strong, and efficient. And his only drawback is also his greatest strength. It doesn't heal naturally. No health potions, no short, or long rest nothing. He has to be refueled to heal.
What is is fuel you ask
*Hahahahahahahaha!*
*His fuel is **_BLOOD_*
Being covered, immersed, or splattered with blood will refuel him as the blood will soak through his thin armour giving him less AC than other characters, but ultimately better staying power. The only drawback is he needs to refuel constantly on a 2-week basis, so he needs to kill constantly,and the blood has to be freshly oxidized and have no other contaminants or else it'll hurt his engine so it has to be fresh blood that hasn't touched the ground
Lore wise, it makes sense (I mean if you have a problem with players healing via blood look at vampires)
Scientifically it also makes sense blood has iron in it right? It could use the red blood cells to chemically generate energy, and once the cells are filtered out the rest of the blood can be used as coolant as it's mostly water.
Alas the world's first VAMPIRIC NIKKON
i love your bowtie bit
@dragonstee4473
Danny Phantom: GOIN AFK
XXD
I did this with my crabfolk cleric of community, I loved Tiderider.
That kind of sounds like sleep paralysis
As much as I love having a cyborg species option, I'd rather have gotten the Borgs in a stand-alone video and have this video be about the species it says it was improving. I'm sad we didn't get any options for the actual Warforged. A Borg doesn't fulfill the same fantasy as a bot. Still, it's a great concept, and I appreciate your hard work
Same. I was really excited to hear about Warforged changes since his other videos on the different races were fun watches.
But this had next to nothing to do with Warforged. Seriously could just cut the talk about Warforged out completely.
Same. This wasn't Warforged. This was people with robot limbs attached. Completely different.
every single new "rework" of a race from pointy hat is just a human with a random part of the original race tacked on in the least creative way possible. I was expecting it already from the tabaxi and dragonborn vids but when i saw the final "rework" i legit started laughing in the most mean-spirited way possible.
i wrote a more magic robot style thing
Unborn (warforged)
Small/Medium
Custom Build: You may choose a feature from another race, given to it by physical traits. Examples: Extra arms, powerful build, large size, etc
You can be healed by normal means or by use of the Mending cantrip. If Mending is cast on you, you can expend 1 Hit Die per casting of the cantrip.
Wood:
Your Hitpoint maximum increases by 4 and does so again each time you gain a level
Steel:
You have a +3 bonus to your AC
All armor+shield proficiency
Porcelain:
You have 2 sorcery points and 1 metamagic option of your choice in addition to any you have from other sources
You can concentrate on two spells at once. Concentration checks are made at disadvantage and when you fail a concentration check you lose concentration on one of your spells (your choice).
Gold:
Natural AC 11+ Dex
all armor+shield proficiency
With enough focus, you can create a small antimagic field in your hand with the shape of a 6 inch sphere. This field lasts up to 1 hour. You may do this a number of times equal to twice your proficiency bonus per long rest.
very unbalanced, but that can be worked out by tweaking numbers, all homebrew races I make are a little op because i like my players op.
The borg concept is kinda consumed by the mindflayers tho.
Warforged and the general idea of robots have so much potential for cool character ideas I wished they gave us a load of different warforged types than 12 different elf subraces
i did an empire with a cybernetic or even robotic elite really obsessed with all kinds of fancy designs and weapons whom are rivals of a totalitarian regime that wants to wipe them off the face of the galaxy for being too individualistic and not equal enough
What’s stopping you from making one of your own and sharing it?
I want to combine warforged with something that emulates a changeling. Hat of disguise? Alter self? Limited polymorph? Custom race and bribe the DM?
lets be honest, the only reason people use elf subraces is for the purpose of a slightly different anime waifu elf.
Would you like to play a Slightly Different Shade Of Blue elf or Has Kinda Weird Eyes elf?
I love the concept of an artificer that just added weapons in peoples' limbs or a a murderous assassin that just pops a weapon out of somewhere like it's the most normal thing in the world.
You could do hidden weapons with base Warforged too, actually. Warforged CAN, if I remember correctly, attune any bladed melee weapon they are proficient with into a magic weapon known as an "Arm Blade", which is exactly what it sounds like: a blade that extends from your arm with a bonus action and makes you feel like a Transformer or like you're playing a tabletop version of Assassin's Creed. I'm currently a Warforged dex paladin with a rapier as an arm blade, because I got tired to people taking my stuff away so I built it into my right forearm.
@@ananonymousnerd.2179 I believe they were in fact attunement options for artificers of any races before TCE - replacing limbs or embedding weapons/wands/spells. AFAIK, TCE ruled out all “magic cyborg” flavoured attunements and only allow warforged to attune to them.
@@ananonymousnerd.2179 my warforged artillerist artificer uses wand sheath and animated shield to essentially quadruple wield - a shield and three wands. With the eldritch cannon, I am trying to be an “one-man firing squad”.
I’m currently playing as a war forged Druid who has become sick of the endless wars that sentient biological beings impose on eachother and wishes to find a resting spot to become a tree permanently. So he wanders from biome to biome, town to town etc. in search of this spot. Helping those he deems worthy and ignoring those who only wish harm on others
I had a DnD game a few years ago where the warforged were big and monstrous, after we killed a particularly nasty one it's torso opened up and what our DM described is stained in my memory, a wheezing lump covered in a black membrane suspended by tubes lurched out and yeah after that we knew exactly what this campaign was gonna be like and all in all it was probably one of my favorites I've ever played!
Ah yes, killer robots powered by "organic batteries." Dr. Robotnik would approve.
@@minimalbstolerance8113 Holy shit that makes sense the BBEG did look like the death egg thinking of it
daleks
Your DM gave you Daleks my dude
I wanted to throw out a character concept using augmented inspired by a specific disabling condition that not a lot of people know about. That being Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I would recommend looking it up and researching it yourself if any of the real life implications of this seem like something you would want to look into.
So, long story short they are a martial artist who is extremely talented at what they do. I like to think they're a long standing champion of the Great Gymnasium from the planescape setting. Over time they began to notice the more time passed the more their body started to deteriorate. Joints started dislocating, chronic pain and fatigue was a constant struggle and fighting became nearly impossible despite their very high skill level. They realized something was wrong and went to their Artificer friend who specialized in Augmented and got their joints replaced with magi-tech parts. Now their fighting capabilities are enhanced and despite still dealing with the chronic pain and fatigue they can still kick butt just as well.
Obviously make them a monk. I was personally thinking more of an open hand or kensei monk but any subclass would work. I hope this is some good inspiration for you to make a d&d character with a disability because I rarely ever see them.
The campaign got cut short, but my favorite Warforge build was us going "how do we allow the fact he is abnormally large for the race" and gave him a Primordial's heart expirament to do so. He was 10 ft tall.
The one I'm running is roughly 8ft (because I don't like sticking too closely to size categories and my DM is cool with it) He towers over most people he encounters and add to that he is clad head-to-toe in a self-made suite of Adamantine Plate Armor and has an (equally self-made) greatsword wrought from the same material as backup - or when he really wants to wreck something. For the most part he uses warhammer and shield though, to maximize his durability. As i like to put it: If you want a chokepoint held, he is the one to put there. (Battlemaster-8/Barbarian-1/War-Wizard-2/Artificer-2)
I had a friend who played a Warforged wizard, flavored as an experimental construct that collected schematics for how to replicate wands that would cast certain spells. Its purpose was collecting and harnessing magic, and trying to break the Warforged's limitation of "can't be spellcasters", every rest was basically time spent allowing those wands to regain charges, levelling up and learning new spells was literally a matter of collecting knowledge and receiving assistance in creating new wands out of those spell patterns, and instead of casting like wizards do, it would have these linked wrappings dangling from its arms, hidden in flowing robe sleeves, so it'd allow it to cycle wands in its forearms almost like a belt-fed machinegun being slotted in a new cartridge.
So when about to cast a fireball, it'd cycle through this loop of "wand catridges" until it slotted in the Fireball one, shoot the spell, then cycle to a new wand. - It was a pretty good idea, and it gave them a routine of tending to these wands and whatnot.
I might take inspiration from your idea. It's brilliant!
In my worlds I let the players choose 2 races and flip coins to see if they get qualities from those races. This has resulted in a large 9ft tall warforged bugbear. It is a wooden bugbear that was experimented on by Artificers, resulting in a hatred for magic. Sadly since it is partially alive, it does need to sleep.
If you're a Cyborg, then you're not a robot. The thing you missed is the race part here. I made a Tabaxi Monk with a Homebrewed Magic item Called a Forged Limb. It has a damage output of 1d6, adds +1 to AC and the ability to add a "Hidden Feature" in the form of any Armblade that are a Warforged exclusive magic item. (A better way to explain that are the weapons The Transformers use in the Prime series and Michel Bay Movies.) As the Armblade has to be attuned it provided one attunement slot with the caveat that is AGREED UPON BETWEEN PALYER AND DM that only an Armblade can be place in that slot! otherwise you only have 2 remaining slots to attune to other magic items. For balancing purposes I added in the fact that it reduces your Movement Speed by 10 as well for all the benefits you get from this item. If the Warforged are "Semi-organic" you should think of them more like Transformers if you want to keep to the Robotic *RACE* that they are. Create a varying design that was there before but WOTC got lazy with alongside the other lazy fools and just say Reallocate that +2 to a stat more fitting to what you want.
Sorry for the rant there, but tbh your answer in this "twist" is more of a "bend" than anything. Very, very poor and not all there. Granted it's a fair design to play a race or a sub-race without really making anything "new". That notion, however, takes away what Warforged are: "a Race of their own"
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
And even in 2023, I play sci-fi RPGs.
What about a war forged who was frail and sickly as a child but also incredibly gifted as a composer. Their mother, a powerful witch and artificer sought to cure them through medicine, magics and even necromancy but no cure could be found. So she began to lose hope. One her young daughter, seeking to comfort her grief stricken mother, and only family, reached out a frail hand interrupting her beautiful lute playing and reassured her that she would always be with her poor mama through her music.
The tender feeling in the words of the child tore at the broken but brilliant mind of the powerful yet powerless witch. Until a horrible notion entered her fragile mind.
A plan began. One of desperation. She took her daughter's hand and began constructing an elaborate device, at first in the pages of her journal, then upon her drafting board and in her workshop and lab, beneath the quarters they shared.
Into the night and morning for three days without rest she toiled. Sending missives to different craftsmen and merchants from all around the countryside. To the dismay of the village all around her work became increasingly strange. Her purpose more difficult to hide. As the pack mules dragged carts filled with geodes and crystals, strange metals and even famed mithril! They knew not what she would make but they new why! It was a crime against the gods!
But she would not be dissuaded from her purpose. She laid her daughter into the device and drew her to an ensorcelled sleep to galt the progress of her illness.
Then she began to turn on her horrible machines......
No one knows just what was done. What madness overtook her. But in the end a new instrument was created. One whose music could chill the marrow of even the stoutest warrior. For it slipped beyond the veil. It called to the souls of those who herd it's haunting melody. The witch played her tune and the people danced. They cried but still they danced! They starved but still they danced. They died and yet they danced!
Her little girl would live on indeed. In song! In richness and beauty and in the lute that was now a part of her. The Death-lute!
I made a Warforged once named Tap. He was built by an Artificer, with the scraps scavenged from fallen warforge during the war, to serve as an assistant unit to a monastery to treat the sick and ill. Due to that, his body was modified to carry surgery kits and blood sacks.
But, unfortunately, Tap ended up getting lost when a group of people who were victims of the war kidnapped him and threw him onto a cliff, calling him an abomination. Tap survived, though heavily damaged, and ended up being rescued by an academy of... Bloodhunters of all people, who helped him with basic repairs.
Tap was lost, injured and unprepared to go back, so, he did the thing he thought was most logical and became a bloodhunter, to increase his chances of survival during his trip back. Believing his primary mission was to save lives, and that he would be able to do that better if he could both protect himself, and protect the injured.
This character was really fun for me, because i went more into Terminator 2 and Baymax vibes, where he would just be really blatant and straightforward, making allegories and analogies make no sense to him, and he was incredibly blunt with the way he spoke and acted. It was a fun challenge to make a character who sounded like he was a real person, but this was due to the way he was programmed and not because he actually felt feelings. Fun thing is that he actually went T2 style and died by saving the party from the main antagonist, by grappling her and jumping into a door to a different dimension. The only thing left of him being his hand, that was left doing an "Ok" sign, because one of the party members taught Tap that this was how you showed people that everything is under control.
ok so first dude we got you you want diff sized Warforged done just DO THE MATH! like i did my current Warforged (Rust Bucket) is a 12ft tall Pure Magitech (no organic components beyond rubber seals & Gaskets) Behemoth to Heal him we use a custom mending spell Construct Mending which works to restore damaged sections to their previous form, Reattach severed limbs, BUT at the cost of repaired sections needing some time to reintegrate the Magic of the Warforged Core (a Gem stone cut to resemble a d20 & houses all the emblems, sigils, & runes to make the Warforged "soul") essentially blow off an arm gather the bits & Raw materials cast Construct mending & use the magic in the part to fix it reattach to the Warforged & the are is there but hanging uselessly for 1 long rest to be able to move it & take disadvantage on rolls until 5 days pass to fully reintegrate the part.
anyway Rust Bucket has one hell of a backstory in a custom world setting Warforged are a relic of a war 1,000 years past & the organization that fielded them is long forgotten as is the process to produce Warforged Cores, in the hopes no Artificer could ever make more. an elderly Dwarf by the name of Durncan Torgule found a heavily damaged yet still functional Warforged Legionary (a combat model full bog standard Warforged) Torgule took it to his home atop a mountain & as a wizard lacked the expertise to fix it But his Daughter an Artificer with the city guild was able to fix the frame while her Father worked on healing the Organic components (full magitech came later) but the true issue was the badly damaged core stone to fix this they made it bigger buy studying the core over a few decades they were able to make a break through they carved a new core from smaller core stones (think a D20 made of 20 separated D4's) they were able to then fuse the memories & "soul" of the old core into the new core which is 80 times more capable than the old core, & it worked Rust Bucket reactivated & accepted its new role as a Servant, Companion, Aprentice, & Caretaker to Torgule Senior to the dying day as his mind slowly rotted away over 50 years of Dementia, becoming more abusive toward Rust Bucket calling the Warforged that so much it took it as its name.
Rust Bucket learned to become an Artificer over these 50 years from Torgule Junior, in order to repair itself & make augmentations to its frame such as integrating tools of Various trades into smaller sub arms folding out from doors in the bottoms of its usual Arms, creating a Cargo hold in its torso area (backpack sized box think Bender from Futurama) and lastly the ability to safely remove & reattach various parts of itself by making several "Link Gems" 7 embedding them through out its various segments. However after Torgule Seniors death Rust Bucket would come to leave the mountain where by he would be stolen by a group of goblin Pirates, reawakening a portion of its Soldier Core Rust Bucket used its attuned Armblade (Shortsword) to Rip & Shred through the horde of goblins... until their Bugbear leader chopped him up with an axe 7 the Goblin crew locked his various parts in several boxes which is how his new party found him 3 years later, angry, loanly, & partly insane from solitude.
fast forward 3 months IRL & Rust Buckets now a level 6 Artificer, & using knowledge of how to fix his own body He's made 3 Sub-Warforged in the forms of 2 Homunculus, 1 a mechanical Spider able to disguise itself as a gold & Black Pearl earing to act as a spy unit with the groups Rogue, & the second being a Sapient alchemy lab that can brew potions autonomously for the group, provided it has the ingredients & a container to do so, then there's the Iron Defender, this is a black Bear SIZED Purely Mechanical construct with 6 limbs designed to look like a Zergling Armed with a powerful pneumatic outer jaw to bite and hold & a slower more powerful inner Jaw to Crush armor & bone alike, 2 back mounted arms with rending claws (3 Armblade sickle each arm) giving its claw attacks 3d4 + mod (STR) & automatic bonus action strike as if dule wielding for another 3d4 no mod, lastly this thing have a saddle seat (think Racing motor cycle) & our parties wood elf Ranger sits in here under a folding Shield carapace & has control of a Twin linked force Cannon firing off projectiles of 1d4 + construct mod force damage as if cantrips & can be fired as a Declaration action by the player as I'm moving the construct on its turn, & again on his turn, with bonus attacks on targets either pined or engaged with the construct.
Making these Rust Bucket had a wave of inspiration & built a massive 12ft tall Purely Magitech body for himself this body had 4 arms to massive combat arms with tridactyl hands for grappling 2 Armblade (Great Swords) Moon Touched, 2 Armblade (eldritch Cannon) & 2 Armblade (whip) modified to be Anchor daggers with chain 60ft with firing rage of 30ft. the 2 sub arms are mounted to the chest 7 are the same as his original arms normal humanoid limbs with integrated tools, the Torso is now huge & resembles the Fallout 4 Sentry-Bot torso with a garage door storage compartment leading into a bag of holding sized cargohold, on the back there is a "Turret Seat" for a smaller party member / DM npc to fire off twin linked eldritch Cannons (same as the one on the Iron Defender except now a normal chair & a bubble top dome of tempered Glass) Lastly the Legs are no Digitigrade & bring the movement speed up to 60ft - 15ft for being the upper limits of Large size, and now being a 2.5 TON death Machine & possessing a Given 20 STR, & CON, DM ruled there's no way this things NOT powerful or weaker than this given its a construct) however all my previous scores remain normal as these are soul skills not Physical & I only changed the body. The head was also remade to have Superior Dark vision, Life detection, & improved Hearing all as if from attuned magic items. However there was a cavoite I'd not be able to get around:
-- 1. I had to get another Artificer to place my core in the new body as disconnecting my core 7 body would render that body unable to move.
--2. I would be unable to speak for 1 day, unable to move for 3 days, & be rolling at disadvantage for 14day all in-game as I was attuning to the new body.
--3. Stealth rolls & checks would be imposable outside of industrialized areas, and would be ignored unless I was actively hidden from sight.
Now I'm working on a custom Metal to make my new armor from all in all this things mainly trying to piss off my DM who hates robots lol.
In one of our campaigns for D&D (Ravenloft) I'm playing a Warforged Monk called Gōsan: he developed sentience due to a freak accident in his production line and, upon being marked for termination, escaped and hid in a forest.
At a certain point he met a monk from a nearby monastery with whom he had a conversation about life, souls, and the purpose of existence.
Needless to say, he's a pacifist who swore to never kill and our DM made him kill innocent villagers (as part of a mindf*ck stunt) along with the rest of the party. Let's just say he's... conflicted between being Gōsan and Unit 53.
So magical General Grievous?
_Yeah, not gonna lie, _*_that sounds dope as fuck._*
I once played as a human fighter who lost her arms at a young age, and was given new ones by her adopted dwarf family. over the years, the arms got better and better, and eventually, she became able to fight with them (d8 + str bludgeoning dmg weapon.) It was actually Eberron we were playing in, as well!
My current campaign i am playing in I am an Artificer, armorer, Thri-Kreen. Due to some shenanigans my strength stat got put all the way down to like an 8 or so. My character decided to exploit the limb replacing abilities of the armor with some insanely high crafting checks. Turning herself into what is essentially a warforged. She replaced her arms, then her legs, and finally everything besides her organs with metal. She now uses her inteligence for all strength checks, and has overcome the weakness of her flesh. But she can still be harmed, and she wants to change that.
I've actually created the first prototype Warforged in a homebrew game as a player. The main differences are I have named them The Forged, War Forged will be a Sub Race, they have no organic parts (the World has very few magic users so healing for armies and people are limited), and they actually have nothing to do with magic but psionic energy, I also don't have a way to make intelligence so the first one made was a guys mind put into a construct (yes he volunteered) and a wild spirit to help make it more whole (yes the spirit did agree) mostly though I'm still working things through and my character is very close to passing from old age so I might not finish in time (The campaign is about living your character from start of life to the end of life and mine is a 102 year old lionin so not got much time left)
I got a human cleric that got so absurdly fucked up in a background event that he was shoved into a human shaped power suit, turning him into a "warforged"
I played a human fighter who'd lost her arm in training to become a monster hunter. After being cast out due to trickery and backstabbing, a gnome artificer picked her up and built her the DracoManus, a clawed arm prosthetic that she used for 2 weapon fighting.
It was before finding this video, but just cool and fitting the theme that you described
I'm currently working on an alternate version of the character I'm currently playing to be a warforged shaped like a Dragonborn.
I know it's probably not a first priority, but I would LOVE a video on Ebberon! So few D&D UA-camrs really talk about it, and I'd love to hear your take on it
In our campaign we have made a variant since we found warforged a little cliché on the "sentient machine made for war" front
We call the race Thingborn and their origin is both old and mysterious. They spring to life in matter seemingly at random and can be altered into a functional shape if they were unlucky with their original body.
They live forever as long as they repair themselves but have a soft memory capacity of the last 100 years. They are strongly drawn towards family relations and are service minded. Which often makes them voluntary servants or foster parents for other races.
This comboed with their memory loss makes them very easy to exploit for long lived races. And while they are very good as soldiers they generally hate to hurt others unless it's absolutely necessary to protect their perceived families.
They use names as a way of telling their traits. Examples are if they start with Ko- they are great warriors or if it's Go- its great wisdom/magic Li- is a pleasent or empathetic individual and if they have -ian as an ending they are awakened which means they can remember more than a 100 years of their life.
They sing alot as a way to remember their pasts. We refer to the Thingborn as the wholesome race👨👩👧👦🫂🗣🎶
You can fit so much angst in this puppy. *Slaps warforaged gently bc is literal puppy.*
DM: You drop the magical item in the lake
Me, a War forged the size of a Space Marine: No problem I'll get it myself
*Proceeds to jump at the bottom of the lake and grab the item
DM: How are you planning to get out?
Me: Huh?
DM: Well yeah you're 300kg of pure metal that just went full Frederick Redbeard and jumped at a Crystal clear lake that it's at least 250 meters deep, you're now swimming up.
Me: oh well.
The rest of the session was my team renting a whaling boat to fish me out while I befriended some fishes and a triton.
I actually made (but still have not gotten to play with yet) a Rune Knight UA Envoy Warforged, so this Warforged was not made to just be this front line warrior like the Juggernauts or a super sneaky boy Skirmisher, he was supposed to be their attempts to use the magic arts of the giants. Blending the knowledge of runes into a being capable of utilizing the runes power better than most fully Organic life forms could. The only problem was, the war ended before the Warforged could be properly finished, though most of it’s programming persisted. I never got to fully flesh out what happened after that point, but the concept of it seemed to interesting for me to pass up
So, the Tin Man from Oz would quite literally be a cyborg Warforged; I belive1 he was originally human and got cut apart and rebuilt as a metal man, and was sad because he missed his human heart and associated emotions (Plus the scarecrow was another potential "Warforged" candidate). I love the idea of playable constructs, tho the bit on steel defenders repairing other constructs immediately made me think of Warforged. It would be so much better if spells like mending healed them etc, but magical healing only provided reduced healing to them due to their semi-mechanical nature. Also the armour and stuff in the original thing sounds far more interesting!
I was originally looking into Warforged because I thought the idea of playing a flesh-golem style character would be neat (I blame that random episode of the Monster girl doctor anime thing I watched), where they're more of a normal looking human hiding their unique nature. Kind of an Frankenstein's monster trying to decide what their place in the world was going to be while avoiding the whole villagers-with-pitchforks problem...
Warforged have a lot of hidden plus sides actually; particularly rocky, sea sickness inducing boat ride? not a problem for the warforged, no inner ear, no nausea! no immune system, so no disease! Has to keep an eye on some weeping angel type creature? no problem, they’ve got no need to blink!
Basically, lacking the anatomy of any living PC is a HUGE advantage in the most niche of scenarios, but they come in handy in a pinch when you least expect it!
in one of my campaigns we homebrewed my friends Warforged Druid/Barbarian so that he could mechanically transform into a bear, and he was flavored to have been built to defend the world from elder gods.
in another campaign i flavored my Lizardfolk Artificer to be an armorer who replaced parts of his physical body with his armor. He was based off of Mechagodzilla and my table loved him
my warforged was an artificer frontline fighter tank. he was subclass of steel defender, and my dm allowed a homebrew that my defender was humanoid, and over the campaign i slowly upgraded him and gave him the ability to think and learn. just as i was made, i made him and gave him life.
lore was he was made by an artificer originally, and even though he started as a fighter, a bodyguard of sorts, he learned from his master in the ways of the artificer and became one himself after his master passed away
In our campaign warforged are steam powered suits of armor controlled by gold circuits and a gem with a soul grafted onto it. The grafting process kills the user and wipes... most... of their memory.
Think of them more as free-willed golems more than robots.
Clay. Flesh. Wood. Leather. Soaked in blood and woven through with threads of cast-off souls, then wrapped in a thin shell of tin and marched off to war like toy soldiers.
Though I did see one played once that was a spontaneous creation, an ANCIENT wooden statue covered in clay and laceur and paint, a statue of the beloved barbarian warlord that tamed a remote valley, whose descendants honored him by erecting a statue over his grave so he would look out over his people forever.
In their hour of darkest need, they prayed to their ancestor for aid, and his statue awoke, marching to war and leading his descendants to victory over the squalid goblin horde that had threatened to sweep through the valley like a tide. Empowered with scraps of souls from all the people who prayed to the ancient king, and soaked in magic from centuries of standing at the epicenter of a leyline where the ancient druids buried their leader, the statue gained a simple sapience of its own, and now finds itself unable to return to its eternal vigil.
THAT's how you rock a warforged.
Take a warforged character. Same stats, same everything. Now flavor it as an eldritch mannequin brought to life by magical means. That's your woodforged character ready to drop in on any questline.
So hilariously I’m technically playing an augmented. My group is playing a Grimhollow campaign and my character is a disembodied artificer with prosthetic arm that she use to cast a lot of her spells with. For anyone who doesn’t know what disembodied are, they are people who have parts of their being tied to different plains after a major incident at a magic academy. They basically look like normal people but parts of their body are translucent purple and you can see their skeleton.
I’d play a Warforged who’d been designed as a lawyer who uses their skills to become a shrewd Warlock. Its legal lingo comes in handy when making devilish contracts, not in a way to cause harm or chaos but rather in a perpetual desire to “pull one over” of the demonic forces it “works with”. Always opting to give itself a better deal and leave the devils knowing they were short-changed.
The best type of warforged is when you name them Beep and make them Wall-E level derps
Fun fact; the UA version of the Warforged was homaging the three playable warforged types from Eberron's introduction in 3rd edition; Envoys being "Production Models" (the generic warforged), Skirmishers being based on Scouts, and Juggernauts being based on... Juggernauts. Sadly, nobody ever played Scouts or Juggernauts because they were *really* badly designed. Juggernauts were gorilla-shaped heavy assault troops and were... competent at their one job, but penalized with massive mental stat maluses and a ridiculous Level Adjustment. But Scouts were just plain awful, being Small sized (which was way more punitive in 3e than 5e), less-armored "scouting models"...who had a 20ft movement speed. For comparison, dwarves, gnomes and halflings had a 25ft movement speed, and dwarves could wear heavy armor without a movement penalty. So a dwarf in full plate was both better armored and faster than a Scout Warforged.
Had a friend who loved playing warforged his favorite thing was to give them amnesia having the memories of the war erased so they would be easier to manipulate
I cooked up an idea:
A Magitech Cyborg who was previously a military rifleman/riflewoman (or gunner if nonbinary or something) gets ALL of their arms and legs blown off in a firefight between an explosion mage, nearly getting them killed. Fortunately, a friend in high places has sympathy for their poor ally, causing them to get a Master Craftsman to repair the wounded gunner's limbs and body with augments, do they can fight once more...
I think warforged aren't as customizable as they were supposed to be mass produced.
The Maestro sorcerer subclass from Pathfinder always spoke to me. They never quite get to be good enough to use. Now imagine some weird bard/sorcerer hybrid with augmented instruments in their body. NOW we're cooking.
I'll be honest...
The ideal of an Android, Robot, or Cyborg, inspired by Metal Gear Rising's Raiden or the Mega Man X Series, or Terminator, has been swishing around in my head, for some time.
Until the Reborn showed up, I was using Warforged as a Clockwork Human.
Just found this video, but I'm starting a campaign where I'm playing as someone who was accidentally locked into a construct after being brought back for interrogation. Gonna be a doozy when he starts getting angry because he can no longer feel the sensations he once did as a human.
I thought of a Evil Crafter that Used Mimics to make the Warforged. That sounds so cool
I'm hella late, and hella new to D&D. I can't wait to take a look at what you've done with this. I've been trying to build a cyborg character for a while now and had no idea how I wanted to go about it.
7:25 BECAUSE THE AUTOGNOME EXISTS
"An outer layer of metal and an inner layer of organic material"
So what I'm hearing is that I could play a Bionicle that is totally a warforged in a dnd game
I really like the idea of a cyborg type. In 3.5 there were half-golems. You could implant like an iron golem’s arms, but it changed your alignment and made you vulnerable to rust like the iron golem.
Also, in ad&d 2e the elf’s handbook had magical prosthetic limbs that were made of mythril, and did a d6 punch damage. It was permanently implanted and could not be removed. It functioned just as well as a meat limb but did not increase stats like a cyberarm or did in Shadowrun or Cyberpunk. However that limb did have a bonus ac because it was mythril
One thing that would have been cool for the Warforged were if they could take a specific feature after like level 5 for example that changes them like a subrace and after a few levels that features gets stronger or they take another.
For example: You can choose at level 5 between strenghten your mind: Int, Wis and Cha(yeah it is magical it must be here ok?) or strenghtening your body: Str, Dex and Con. You get a + 1 in the one you took but a - 1 in the other. After like 3-4 levels you get a new more specific bonus to choose from that what you picked be it just another increase in that stat(boring) or a more specific feature like getting + 1,5 meters more movement.
I made a warforged bard that had a jukebox in his chest, and named him Jukebot
I understand your dislike of the robot racism trope but honestly as robot technology advances it's really the vibe I'm getting from a lot of people
Just finished a campaign where I played a bunch of goblins piloting a warforged made from the carved body of an ent so that they could disguise themselves as an ent. Lost a couple race perks to justify it existing in Camelot and not really being a traditional warforged, but it was easily my favorite character to play so far. (Even if I’ve only played 4 in total)
i got an idea from this i dont think was mentioned and i havnt seen used.... if warforged are just sentient contructs, then why cant one be.... say an elf or someone else organic who was at the end of their life who decided to magicly "upload" their consciousness into a warforged body that was previously inactive, essentially making themself immortal, but because of the transfer, they would loose all their skills, but not their memories and knowledge, i think it would easly explain why a character with an epic backstory is now level 1, not only that would make a great basis for a warforged bard whos lust is for knowledge, or an artificer who wanted to upgrade themselfs to the point they became fully mechanical ect. the possibilties with the uploaded consciousness seams limitless
Cyborgs are sorta already a thing with half golems it’s not robotic but magical in nature and fit the concept of what u described
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me"
I like the design of the crossbow lady, she has a runners prosthetic because she wants the average ability to run, and she wants a crossbow prosthetic for the decidedly un-average ability to shoot things in the face. Nice.
Switch out the leg for a walking prosthetic and the crossbow for a hammer and she can walk down a hallway Oldboy style.
"Make a dog robot you coward!"
Already done. If I ever get the chance to use it is a whole other thing but I did make a character that was just a robot dog/wolf, based it off the robot dog from Casshern Sins.
Warforged are not robots, unless the DM decides they are.
It does not say their skin is metallic. It says ", blending organic and inorganic materials. Warforged are made from wood and metal, "
Warforged are sentient golems.
In my world, it goes a step further.
Warforged are golem bodies that have had a human soul attached to them.
I just got an amazing idea a necromancer artificer with these capabilities. Instead of having zombies and skeletons they use the ramshackle abilities of a thousand skeletons then have one augmented skeleton that they have put hours apon hours of time and craftsmanship into and this would also take care of the rather variable ability of the necromancer and turn the game into a sort of dungeon fighter management rather then a collect all the corpses
Love this idea so much that the campaign I'm making is gonna have a zealous religion-cult of flesh purists who see any augmentation or other prosthetic as going against nature.
Which is admittedly a weird way to show my love.
im imagining a kobold going up to an artificer pulling out some money and saying 'tall plz' and came out with the longest legs you could imagine, like seriously think of this situation, ur fighting a group of kobolds then out of the brush an 8 foot tall kobold with mechanical legs pulls up
Honestly the only bit of the UA Warforged that needed alteration was the Natural Armor since at max level the Light/Medium options can get an AC of 21 while the Heavy Armor can get an AC of 22 without any magic items. is AC that high useful? Eh. perhaps but still it's a bit much without magical help in my opinion.
I have a character idea in mind:
Either a Warforged or Augmented Bard that has an entire pipe organ integrated into their body and is first found iba campaign as one of the protectors of a church.
Any thoughts?
Did a WH40K themed games as an Ad mech. Gave him multiple arms and guns and weapons built into his for arms and thighs
I made it where they were made for a war thousands of years ago that the world no longer remembers. They start to wake up again and just kinda start finding places amongst the world. Most of the ones I play focus on learning about the new world and emotions and how to express them. Then some, like my Wizard Warforged, focus on exploring lost ruins to learn about where they came from. As they start to remember their original time, they remember how they hated their creators and regreted the war they were forced to wage. Still robot, no organic parts, except the Druid one whose armor isn't iron but Hardwood instead.
Kobold Press kinda touched on different options with their gear forged. Sure they're not exactly the same and only have four types of chassis' but they're really good options if you want to expand on the world
3.5 had a prestige class that allowed one to slowly replace their own body parts with warforged components. Creepy, but only a little derivative.
There was also that prestige class that had warforged trying to become less construct-like.
I came up with an amazing character idea for an augmented. Imagine a Rogue or Fighter who wants to augment their bodies to the absolute limit. They travel the lands searching out these Artificers and augment each part of their body to maximize their potential. Collecting the trademark of tons of different artificers across the land. You could even flavor this as a retired Artificer collecting others work and showing it off to honor the craft or show just how diverse Artificing can be
Back in my day warforged needed repair spells and healed half from regular heals. It was fine.
The integrated armor thing is sweet, yoh can have plate on UNDER your skin, and then wear cool outfits overtoo of everything. A suit, robes, peasants clothes, anything
I realize I am late to the conversation, but this was also a thing in the original release of Eberron in 3.5, and no this isn't a rant for why 3.5 is better or worse. However if you are into Eberron I highly suggest taking a look at those original books, there are about a dozen of them. It's one of the most fleshed out settings I've seen for dungeons and dragons and I'm sure you'll find something worth taking away from it.
I had an idea for a warforged just to be this big hulking boy something like the Dwarven Centurion from Skyrim
I did a warfoged as a flesh golem, he was Frankenstein-ish and was traveling the world seeking the ability to create more like him. So naturally, he started as a barb and slowly became a necromancer.
When asked to make a new character I came up with a fleshy frankenstein warforged. Then the DM said I should just be a Reborn, which I had never heard of before.
Looks like a Promethean: The Created story pretty much)
No bcuz you meant 'barbarian' but i thought you meant a nicki minaj fan 😭
One of my players is doing a planty warforged, our setting is sort of clockpunk and robots can have souls if they’re designed masterfully enough. Their pc was made by an artificer and a druid, and is made of metal components held together partially by druid magic, moss and dirt and vines and flowers and shit. Also, their pc can heal with mending because, well, it makes sense lol
So a homunculus
Don’t get me wrong, I do really like your new custom race. But it feels too far removed from what a war forged is slash could be. It is definitely its own thing in my mind. And less of a twist on an existing thing
Ehh, I'm not feeling it. I feel like 'Cyborg' is a little too far from a Warforged to be called a Twist.
great opinion
My version of "warforged" were made by an ancient civilization living in the desert. They ended up replacing all the humanoids living there thanks to the area completely running out of water. They all share a single mother, a giant sentient factory that keeps expanding. They send back information and samples of anything new they find to help improve the next generation.
That's friggin rad. I love the concept and it gives your dm a super interesting set of side missions for your campaign.
Had two similar ideas to that for a setting in the past. My ancient desert civilization are undead awaiting the day the rains return and they can live again. My Warforged instead are from the frozen northlands. Every year a few more crawl out of the permafrost, thaw out of a glacier, are exposed to the air by a landslide, or awake from some recently uncovered vault from the last time the area was warm.
Super cool idea man!
@@Liethen Love the idea of the Warforged in the Arctic regions slowly thawing out and reactivating. It reminds me of the classic Dr. Who story "Tomb of the Cybermen."
Warforged mineflayer lol
Before watching it, this is a character I really want to play:
This wizard reached the peak of power, an archmage with amazing power and vast treasures, but as a human, nature would eventually takes its course and take his life away. Terrified of the prospect, he sought ways to extend his life through magical means, and even immortality, but he saw the paths leading to that goal were too evil, specially the idea of becoming a Lich forever damning souls to oblivion as fodder for his phylactery. He sought another way, and after much searching he met a very talented gnome artisan specialized in creating golems. They made a partnership to create golems to defend the vaults of Sorcerer Sundries to amass a vast quantity of gold. As a secret project, however, Solomon was learning all he could, for another path had presented itself: what if he could transpose his soul into a construct? Metal never dies.
The latter part of his years was spent perfecting the craft, creating a special construct capable of harnessing magic, a very intricate design of the inner workings had to be performed, not too dissimilar from the clockwork constructs of the plane of Order.
When the day finally came, he performed the ritual and his souls successfully latched on to the construct, but something went wrong. You see, Souls were not meant to linger after death, much less to attach to lifeless things, even if those things are soaked in magic, the experience of the process was too traumatic for the soul; it became fatigued, blocking away all prior experience as a defense mechanism like someone who experienced a very traumatic event in life.
The Solomon was sucessful, and the Soul Powered Golem (SPO-1) was alive, but the memories of who Solomon was are scattered, Spoi doesn't know who he is, he doesn't know what he is. All he remembers is the last thought that crossed his mind as he transposed his soul without the assistance of his most loyal ally. That is all he knows, he must discover who he is, who he was, and must also discover if he's still Solomon, or something else.
This is the backstory of this character I wanna play: a wizard warforged with amnesia, and it even explains how the construct "levels up", as more memories are unlocked through experience.
DUDE, I HAD A VERY SIMILAR IDEA!
Mine was an artificer instead of a wizard, one that was hunted and had to resort to transferring his memories to an automaton (the warforged) he created before he was killed. The automaton was never activated and millenia passed before a member of the party found him and accidentally activated him.
He looks like a child at level one and my idea was that as he leveled he remembered more and more about his past life and even made modifications to his body, growing in size too.
Thing is, the original artificer was also named Solomon hahaha that's a bunch of coincidences!
Either everything is a coincidence, or nothing is ;) @@hayatoart
In a recent campaign I played in, I was a Echo Knight Fighter Warforged named Drednen who pretty much had a Overwatch Bastion style backstory and somehow got warped from Ebberon to Sword Coast. He found a passion in baking after seeing how baking made people happy with various sweets and pastries. After taking apprenticeship and developing his artisan skills, he had an EZ bake oven installed in his chest and set off in the world to garner enough funds to fulfill his dream of making people happy through baking and opening his own bakery.
This is the most Wholesome character i've ever read about!
I'm building an Echo Knight Warforged too hahahahhaha but he was a tinker's assistant and some spooky events haunt him. Also, using the Envoy Warforged from the UA because
my warforged is very similar, hes a circle of the shepard druid warforged who was created towards the end of a war in our campaign but due to a series of events he was chased out of his home. so he became a hermit and all his little animals are his friends. hes also very fucking stupid
I don't even know if an echo knight robot would be possible but it's dnd so whatever you want can exist some where
I love it! quirky characters are the best. Just have him show up one day with a crown of (plastic) sporks and you would have achieved perfection 😆
I would say warforged are less robot racism and more military veterans with no purpose now that the war is over. People don’t want to really acknowledge veterans especially in America so that’s where the disinterest partially comes from along with the other things you mentioned.
With some having PTSD (one of the quests in D&D Online features this theme).
Funniest thing about being a veteran is the people most disinterested in veterans are those "empowered" to "help" them 🤷 (VA)
There's been a rash of vets setting themselves on fire in front of clinics (like Charles Ingram III) because of all the "didn't happen during service/not required to cover that" BS
Just want to say: Love your work!
Please don't vanish into thin air after the inevitable kickstarter.
Off the top of my head that sounds like a Runesmith reference, any other D&D creators go poof after a kickstarter?
Haha pretty sure he's already run and completed 2 kickstarters
@@calliclassic Assuming you're on Runesmith as well.. and? He still stopped engaging when he could start putting $60 tags on what he produced.
'Kickstarters completed' aren't a metric for 'good/accessible for the community'
@@T.BG822 i have no idea what runesmith is. I was talking about Antonio/Pointy Hat. He's done 2 5e supplement iirc
@@T.BG822 Not that I know of. But one is enough to make I me feel abadoned... ;)
I'd thought your augmented was going to be like an Artificer slowly turning himself into a Warforged. Like, one idea I'd had was taking the Armorer subclass of Artificer and gradually working his soul into the advanced suit, so that when someone one hundreds of years later discovered it the Artificer and the new hero could work together.
maybe, imagine thet you play as a warforged for most of the campaign and all your companions think you are just that a warforged until like during a battle part of your face breaks off and under it there is a human face hidden away by the faceplate, then after the battle is over its revealed that all this time the warforged was in reality an artificer that decided to upgrade his body into an advanced cyborg
@@carso1500 That sounds awesome. Or maybe an artificer version of a lich where the armor is their philactory and they absorb the souls of their enemies in combat.
FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH, IT DISGUSTED ME.
There is an artificer subclass like that in Dread Metrop. Mastermaker. Unfortunately not official.
@@quietone2674 I'm here to deliver you the oracle certificate.
aaaa they're not robots! They're sophisticated golems! That's part of why they're so dang big, they took those hulking constructs and refined them down to something vaguely humanoid. A lot of their stuff makes more sense in that light, but I do agree the unearthed arcana stuff was super neat.
So nice to see someone that finally gets them right. I know it’s hard to see anything but “fantasy robot” when there is way more nuance there. Autognomes are more robot like. Sucks trying to find an Eberron stream period, even more to find someone that does a good roleplay as Warforged
@@baianojack Or the rogue modron...
Tbf, whats the difference between a golem and robot other than how they are made?
@@baianojackSo, Dungeons and Dragons Online is an MMORPG that takes place in Eberron of all places. The warforged, in terms of playability, are an extremely popular race to play. Fairly durable and can work well as both a martial and a caster. In terms of story, there's a whole rebellion going on in the background with their "god", the Lord of Blades. You end up having to cooperate with him a few times throughout the game. There's even one decently popular quest chain about someone(s) stealing the souls of warforged and turning them into mindless automata. Kinda depressing when you take into account that a lot of them were already mind-wiped and there's nothing you can do for them except put them out of their misery and avenge them
@@marcusaaronliaogo9158 a golem is a magical existence usually made of clay or simple materials and usually can only do actions the spell parameters allow for. So simple actions: attack intruders or defend a certain macguffin. Robots are sophisticated creations of metal and programming code lines usually capable of adaptability or at least rudimentary independent action. Constructs to which Warforged are adjacent, are somewhere in the middle. Though Warforged in the lore are constructs with souls. Think of it like a person’s soul put in man-made body. So the way they get roleplayed most of the time is like a robot. Coded this way or following that directive with gears and whatnot. That is really what an autognome is like. It is just a little grinding since they are my favorite playable race but never get done right.
11:17 3.5 had warforged grafts, where you could replace a bodypart like an eye, arm, leg, even a chunk of brain with a warforged body part. Be it for fixing a lost limb or such or augmenting a fleshbag to just be better. It was pretty awesome and could be pretty much what you mentioned here.
I actually really liked the Warforged idea, and when I run games I like to take a bit of the anime Galaxy Express as for how the factory they are made in works. ;)
Well pausing here at 11:37, Cyborgs in Eberron - This is the Renegade Mastermind. It was the opposite prestige class of the reforged prc. Renegade Mastermind would allow an artificer of any race slowly transform themselves into a warforged, while the reforged prc would allow a warforged to transform themselves into more flesh and blood like.
3.5 had a lot of cool things, but since ebberon came out mostly at the tail end of the edition, lot of it was kinda forgotten and lost. Warforge had special equipment items called "Warforged Components" which basically were parts that you could incorporate into your character. Like a mask that allowed you to gain the scent feature, or specialized feet to grip the ground. Whats cooler is that you could reforge any magic item into a new component, allowing you to basically become something of inspector gadget if you had a bunch of unslotted magic items built into your character.
But 4e and 5e did warforge dirty, making them more simplified and generic mush.
The worst incarnation though was early DDO which they only gained a small bonus on different things that warforged where normally immune to. Poisons, diseases, breathing.. All kinds of things like that you only got a slightly better boost if anything at all.
I still kinda miss all the feats and upgrades for Warforged that allowed you to personalize your own golem like a build-a-bear
Good news - they're still a thing!
Bad news - they're not in official 5e material, but in supplements made by a third party.
Good news - said third party is Keith Baker himself, the original creator of the Eberron setting!
@@mofumyon This reminded me of Homer Simpson talking to the Chinese shopkeeper about the cursed gift. 😂
@@mofumyon what supplement are you talking about? The UA warforged? I'm curious to read it
@@mofumyon Where can I find those supplements?
hey i know you
Imagine a Tortle who had their shell replaced after it being ripped by a cruel giant, or a Chnangeling who decided to anchor their body in one form to fit their self image, and used porcelain prosthetics to make their image eternal.
Hmmmmmmmmm I mean cool but like...... Aren't the shells literally a turtles spine? If you remove the shell you basically kill them.
@@ztoxicman it's a giant walking, talking turtle, i'm sure it doesn't really matter
@@ztoxicman Exactly! Hence the prosthetic implants. There's also been turtles (or was it a tortoise?) who had a very large portion of their shell removed.
Over time, more and more of their shell has been replaced and augmented.
A ferro-ceramic artificial spine supports the creature from the inside, with finely-woven layers of spider-silk connecting pieces and creating a sterile barrier between the artificial and living organic organs. Magically enhanced for longevity and strength, the lateral shell plates are of a pallid-grey, though can be painted to appear natural, and offer compatibility with various organic and inorganic pieces. Bits of petrified wood, hastily incorporated armor scraps, and even a dragon scale or two dapple the creature's back, while natural tissue continues to grow normally. This augmentation may even allow for an instrument or tool to be incorporated into one or more of the artificial plates, and be safely removed or replaced.
Regenerative magic and abilities cause non-essential parts to simply become detached, or absorbed. The creature equip with the artificial spine may choose to excluded it from any regeneration that would have it removed, allowing the internal structures to enhance their biology and continue to grant its benefits. In such instances, the lateral plates may remain, reduce in size, or fuse with the internal vertebrae to provide superior support of the body and limbs.
@@ztoxicman Gentle repose until the procedure is finished then revivify. Or, barring that, true resurrection. Death is not final in D&D.
I did this on accident in a campaign once my samurai lost her dominant hand when it was bitten off by a horror. Shed picked up a handgun that she was practicing with so after we got to safety i asked pur artificer to make me a specialized replacement arm that would let me use the gun occasionally (ala vash the stampedes arm.) It definitely kind of showed her growth as a character
I like the idea that warforged (or any robot race for that matter) are only that tall because either
1) the amount of tech to actually make a robot sentient with magic or otherwise is equivalent to a level 9 spell
2) the amount of work needed to do so means people strive for perfection in their own definition, meaning you get waifudroid designs or designs similar to the gods themselves.
This has the interesting implication that robot racism is the only plot that writers use because the actual interesting themes require introspection on the writers part.
You KNOW it's a good day when Pointy Hat starts oversimplifying fantasy droids
You know its a good day when he uploads
My last character was a Warforged Cleric of the Forge named Error who created themselves due to a computational bug that occurred over the course of hundreds of years. When they joined the party, they were hundreds of years old, but only sentient for an entire day. Error spent the campaign questioning the basis for morality, what that means, and how they could improve the quality of the world after making instruments of war for centuries.
"I AM ERROR"
sick as fuck
Sounds a bit like my second one. The name the party gave him was Clang. His real “name,” more of a designation, was Combat Construct A-495. He was originally built to defend a civilization of dwarves long since fallen to ruin. In that desperate last stand, he was built with all the siege-scrap the dwarves could muster, given orders to march out beyond the wall, to start killing the undead besiegers. It received no orders to stop. It was mostly successful. It had intelligence limited to a complete and total understanding of physics, the knowledge to self-repair and upgrade, knowledge of every fighting style the dwarves had yet encountered, and knowledge of undead. So, he went out there in hyper focused terminator mode and crushed every last zombie and skeleton he came across, only for the Lich commanding them to raise the dead dwarves to fight for him. The Lich absorbed the knowledge from those dead dwarves and, through means unknown to him, struck down the construct. Centuries later, after the desert sands had half-worn down the ruins, the party received a task from a dwarf archaeologist to go to the ruins and investigate. They found Clang’s massive armored hand poking up from the sand. They dug him out, finding a 7 and a half foot tall, heavily armored and bulky warforged with the etching of A-495 on its forehead. The party artificer, after about 3 days of tinkering, got it up and running again. Through some… creative liberties taken by the artificer, she had accidentally made him fully sentient. He had no prior memory, save an internal map of the city, a BURNING HATRED for all undead, and utter apathy to the living. He took up his massive flail and kite shield, and after a few battles, since he couldn’t remember his designation, the party named him “Clang,” because that’s the sound his footsteps made, the sound that was heard whenever he was hit, and whenever he hit something.
I've always thought of them as what should be the "basic stats race", as their entire thing is that they are designed to be good enough for anything thrown at them. This way humans could stop being the middle ground race.
I mean if the One DND background rules stick anyone can put their stats wherever they want
@View Bot based on what they said about the feedback they got I actually think it's pretty likely to remain. Something around 80% or more said they like it. Not to mention that's how monsters of the multiverse does some races
I am pro human!
@View Bot the sample size was about 37,000 people if I remember correctly and the method of collection was the survey on DND beyond