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[@andrewnewell1142]

Warforged are the literal best for telling a story of identity. Your character was a weapon until a few years ago. Who do they want to become?

[@KevinMacku]

3 of Eberron's unique races are great for explorations of identity. Warforged, changeling, and kalashtar all have juicy built-in lore and/or mechanics to those deep dives into identity.

[@joelsasmad]

I kinda want to play a true neutral warforged that travels trying to find a new purpose for it's existence after being a weapon for so long only to slowly become lawful evil as nothing works and he tries to instigate a war to "try and go back to the way things were before".

[@mrvoltem9379]

Eh, theyre literally just a blank canvas. Thats not a good thing. 'Oh you can do everything' just leaves people floundering and unsure

[@wellatleastimhere1974]

@@joelsasmad that sounds fucking cool he could be an oath of conquest Paladin

[@kaelang12]

mine became a gentleman adventurer who wields their wit as much as they wield their rapier

[@Lukos0036]

If your Warforged friend starts wearing the skins of it's defeated foes, then what you have is not a Warforged, it is a Necron stop what you are doing and run.

[@FrostCrispz]

If your drow starts thinking that taking out goblins saves their soul from torment, you don't have a drow. Run. It's a Drukari

[@brotheraracon3646]

If your orks can believe hard enough and his gun stars to work, they are not orks there orkz

[@brotheraracon3646]

@@FrostCrispz if you elf drugged fucked a god of pleasure into existence, that isn't a elf, that is a eldar

[@evillaughinthebackground5732]

If you have Daemons, that's Chaos. Pray to the Holy Emperor and the Omnissiah

[@debrisposting4904]

Skin bandit moment.

[@XPtoLevel3]

babe wake up new runesmith eberron video just dropped

[@pastorTracy911]

Let Spencer sleep

[@MandalorV7]

@@pastorTracy911 What if it’s Spencer waking Jacob? 😆

[@wedran9225]

@@MandalorV7 They wake each-other up, it's caused by the sheer primal urge to watch the new runesmith eberron video.

[@PotatoeGameing]

@@wedran9225 I now imagine them both suddenly waking up and yelling that a new runesmith eberron video, like even if they are both dead asleep just a cosmic force informs them.

[@prizemercy]

I have a request. Could you make another "try not to laugh at DnD memes" video?

[@austinsetser6081]

My buddy ran a Warforged Paladin who received “divine revelation” from a holy river, and was blessed with the knowledge of RNGesus (his files were corrupted from a short circuit), decided to delete all knowledge of his past life, and attempt to militantly convert the rest of the world to his arbitrarily determined religious identity (player would flip a coin or roll a die to determine what his creed said about certain actions). His name was Popocop and the campaign ended when a group of Kua Toa actually created his god, who then killed the BBEG aboleth who had previously thralled them. What a character

[@dragonfell5078]

Holy fucking shit that's cool I bet that warforged paladin must've had an awakening when he saw his god actually come to life So what'd the god do after defeating the aboleth?

[@austinsetser6081]

@@dragonfell5078 he fucked off to the celestial plane, throwing the cosmic bureaucracy into a scramble

[@Ffhbm-Bzfe]

that's a hell of a journey lmao

[@dragonfell5078]

@@austinsetser6081 Based

[@firerulezz116]

Well that escalated quickly. One moment it's preaching random ideas the next it's creating a god. Damn.

[@briankrueger7365]

"We have nukes now, good game." is such an amazing line.

[@Pyreleaf]

‘Oh shit guys, I think we did war too hard’

[@sebastianadifferenttime5367]

that is how worldwar 2 ended.

[@Magnet_Chaos]

@@sebastianadifferenttime5367 It was more like. "So there was one nuke. So what?" Later. "Oh wait there is more of them? Ok. GG."

[@foxspirit4554]

The treaty of Versailles part two electric boogaloo

[@jaketinsleywbc]

My Warforged Eldritch Knight named Fadron Bulkhead was a personal bodyguard/sex toy to his artificer mistress during the war, he ran away one day after he was told he didnt have to take orders anymore. He then wandered into a sinkhole in a marsh and remained there for ten or so years before getting dug out by halfling rogue and a drunk Dragonborn Cleric she had tricked into helping her sell holy water as what started out as a scam, but since the cleric could actually bless water she no longer had to lie. Anyway, Fadron immediately took to the halfling and found his passion was caring for her and the two ended up getting married. This was my wife and I's story as to why her halfling was married to the 8 foot tall murder robot

[@me-42by42]

I like the image of the pit they were in just being like, 6 feet deep, and they just stood there. In a hole they could get out of.

[@jaketinsleywbc]

@@me-42by42 just...not too good at problem-solving at the start

[@Maid_of_Spiders]

So this reminds me of that picture of a hamster eating a banana except the banana is metal.

[@CharlesUrban]

Aww. For better or worse, till death or unit shutdown do you part.

[@Julikevatuce]

I admit, I skimmed this the first time I saw it and initially read "take orders" as "fake orgasms". I think it still tracks.

[@Freekymoho]

I feel like at least a *bit* of distrust is justified here, seeing as the 'newly liberated' are an army of unstoppable super soldiers directly tied to one of the most traumatic and violent episodes in living memory

[@bradypermenter8761]

That’s fair. It’s like if after WWII all the tanks gained sentience and created their own nation state

[@Freekymoho]

@@bradypermenter8761 or if US predator drones gained sentience and decided to settle down in the middle east, next door to the people they used to bomb. Like, I wouldnt really judge those people for being afraid

[@Drekromancer]

@@bradypermenter8761 "shoulda never smoked that shit. now I'm stuck in the _Sherman Tank Ethnostate"_

[@eainjones9509]

Not only that, but all of the Sherman Ethno-Tanks share the same manufacturer, the manufacturer in question recently being disgraced and subject to sanctions which ruin their primary profit avenue. If the manufacturer was able to release the Warforged and give them free will, I can't imagine that a reverse function or factory reset is all that difficult.

[@mrreemann8313]

​@@eainjones9509 It's magic bullshit though, and magic basically always seems to involve the rule of consequences. You made your bed and now you will lay in it. You gave the warmachines sentience, and now you can't take it back, or assert control over them.

[@bryangutierrez5]

Don't worry Rune, the entire Lord of Blades situation is ambiguous by design. The lore doesn't actually give direct answers to what his goals or agendas actually are, its up to the DM to decide how they want to run him, as goes with many things in Eberron (Like the dragon prophecy). The players will rarely ever be given a perspective on his activites from anyone but the same humanoids who fear him, so its easy to just make all the doom and gloom be just pure rumors or fearmongering. Do you make him a freedom fighting revolutionary for robo-rights, a Magneto style terrorist extremist with his own "Brotherhood of Warforged", or does he just want to bring back the war so Warforged will have identity again? All those paths are viable ones! His Lawful Evil status is more due to the fact that which ever you pick, him and his followers are formed like a military and will use violence when they believe its necesarry. He's not a kind individual, whatever his goals are.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

"Brotherhood of Warforged" versus the player characters under the sponsorship of a bald elf psion in an artificed wheelchair. I'd see it in the theaters.

[@NoConsequenc3]

the older i get the more i think Magneto was right

[@Puddingskin01]

Or you can go the only sensible option, he and his army of followers just walked into a nuclear wasteland to play Stalker. They will attack you on sight because you might be an anomaly.

[@Niemandzockt]

DnD Evil can quite handily described as "No qualms about harming/killing innocents"

[@tompatterson1548]

Or, is he just making a country because the warforged don't have one.

[@preyasmanthedemopan2854]

My favorite warforged character I've come up with gave himself the name Iron Slug. He was a warforged set up as a sort of labor-bot in a warehouse, until he and alot of the inventory were stolen by pirates where he was forced to work as a crew hand. He had no opinions on the change as he did alot of similar work, but over time the pirates and their ways grew on him, and he started imitating them, and over time he became an adventure-seeking freedom-loving pirate himself. he eventually left his old crew on good terms and vowed to gather his own crew together sometime and build a pirate legacy for himself. lusting for adventure, freedom, and lots and lots of rum (he obviously cant process it, but i imagine he drinks it then burps it out in a fire breath like Bender does, and only really does it cause pirates like rum so he likes it too, not for the taste cause he cant taste it, but because what it represents to him.)

[@joelwilliams1141]

I love this character arc.

[@barretmitchell299]

I just realized that they’re basically the Clones from Star Wars. Mass produced for the singular purpose of war, having to create their own identities amongst the masses of identical copies, trying to figure out their purpose now that the war is done. (That last part doesn’t apply to all clones obv, but several of them at least)

[@joshuahadams]

Roger Roger!

[@bronsonneill2944]

my first ever dnd character was a warforged bard who was a prop for a stage play that was never meant to be alive, suddenly possesed by the spirit of its creator. his name was Jack & he had a chain saw as an arm he would reeve at certain speeds to play notes for music/spells.

[@Drekromancer]

Holy shit. I LOVE the idea of a warforged bard playing music out of their anatomy. ...Imagine a warforged with a built-in music box. Or a pipe organ!

[@mstieler8480]

I remember making a Warforged Paladin for a campaign that sadly didn't go anywhere. Who did the Warforged worship as god? It's literal creator. No, I have no idea how that even allows for deity-based powers, but its sounds cool, right? Enough thought into it could make for some fun RP. Sadly I have yet to run into a DM that will allow one :( *edit for some clarity: I'm now remembering this was for 3.5, and back then I was using an SRD IIRC, so I don't know if the Oath part was in the Paladin lore back then.

[@joshwollet3637]

That actually works really well in Eberron. Divine power doesn't nessisarily come from the Gods but the faith of the men and women who worship them. The Lord of Blades himself, who as mentioned is just an ordinary warforged, has clerics and palidens that worship him. Having a warforged gain divine magic from worishiping factory worker Steve is an interesting idea.

[@archersfriend5900]

@@joshwollet3637 sounds a lot like space marines.

[@tristanmitchell1242]

@@archersfriend5900 Except the GEOM is actually a god. He gains power from worship, and grants his power to those that needed it to defend humanity.

[@Gardivanyth]

The fact that they're a paladin neatly sidesteps that issue, actually. Paladins gain divine power from oaths, not worship. That being said, usually that divine power is gained by making an oath to a god... but an oath to the world itself could work too. This is D&D, magic exists, why shouldn't the world itself be a paladin sugar daddy?

[@mstieler8480]

@@joshwollet3637 Now that I think a bit more on it I wonder if, so long as Steve* The Maker (name tbd :D) is still alive, if I could wrangle some American Gods-type stuff by getting random people to convert to the Church/Oath of Steve*, and Steve* would slowly gain powers with more followers. I could see all sorts of stuff that could happen with that.

[@Voidsworn]

How about a warforged that was repaired extensively but hurriedly using parts from another...maybe creating a warforged with two personalities and mismatched colored eyes and other parts.

[@Keyce0013]

I seem to recall an episode of House MD where a patient's right arm acted on its own and had its own feelings etc., because it was tied to a second brain in the patient's head.

[@carmacksanderson3937]

@@Keyce0013 Yeah, I believe the patient had his corpus callosum removed, so the two hemispheres of his brain were acting independently, but only the left hemisphere controls speech

[@Drekromancer]

@@carmacksanderson3937 That sounds right. You could totally make a robot like that, then! You'd just have to make it so that every part of his cyber-brain works, but the connections got messed up somehow. Maybe he took some damage and they had to repair him imperfectly.

[@hazama4478]

I LOVE the warforged so much. I have a character planned named Sharpeye who was warforged scout, whose commander gave him an order to "Not die here and to report back" well, Sharpeye got trapped buried under rubble, and had to find his commander again because his company had moved on without him because well a literal ton of rocks buried him, so uh... what are you gonna do? And now 5 years later, after tracking people down, asking very pointed questions, getting into places he shouldn't have been he found his commander chilling in his house retired and confused as to all hell how Sharpeye found him and now he's got the investigator background. I love this guy, I really want to play him. :(

[@dinguskahn4855]

Always wanted to make a warforged. Had a good concept not long ago but I can't for the life of me remember it. Damn the luck. Also love the idea for the new campaign project. Didn't know it was a Hawaiian collab and it's really cool to see more of my heritage in one of my favorite hobbies! 🤘😁

[@dragonheart1236]

I had an idea that I can let you steal Forge, a Warforged Forge cleric. Originally a war machine, after being Slain and discarded, his remains were found by some students of the Smithy Guild. Planning to make a walking furnace golem from his shell, Forge was rebuilt by the students, a furnace built into his torso. Seeing potential in this newfound creation, the deity of the forge blessed the metal man with true life, and in return, Forge dedicated his existence to the idea of reforging the world. You take a thing or situation, and you improve it before you leave, making the world a better place step by step.

[@elrusito5034]

@@dragonheart1236 I'll do you one better, a general purpose warforged made from scraps of other warforged, is obssessed with his appearance and buffes his metal skin/plates at any chance, wears his creator as a human leather cowboy hat, and wants to be a folk singer. And he's an alcoholic.

[@dragonheart1236]

@@elrusito5034 well... I suppose that is something....

[@themotions5967]

@@elrusito5034 why does this sound like a DND origin story for bender? Lmao

[@themotions5967]

Could it be a warforged artificer? I’ve been thinking about playing that one for a while. Just thinking up the mechanics behind a engineer class warforged that through rebuilding his fallen brothers and sisters has learned to improve himself and other machinery.

[@alfred8936]

My Warforged was an assistant to a Dwarvish businessman who used him to construct an airship before abandoning him. The Dwarf had long distanced himself from his faith and grown bitter, but after my Warforged suddenly gained sentience after sitting in storage collecting dust for decades, he became a devout Forge Cleric of Torag, who he assumed was the only logical source of his blessing. He went on to set a goal for himself to create great works to far surpass his creators, and thus dubbed himself "Andross": "for those who see the potential in slag metal to be cast off may mold it into a better future"

[@fdragon77fk]

i love that ending because i actually have a warforged right now who because of the setting he was initially run in wants to replace his entire body because the person that made him was an evil psychotic monster who used him as a suicide bomber through mind control and he wants to be free of that. I'm going to have to replace his entire body as well as his soul, because in the initial setting he was run in warforged souls are basically soul gems from skyrim that act as their energy source. Through some astral portal shenangins (and because the last campaign ended in the middle of his character arc) he ended up in a new campaign where he has the chance to ship of theseus himself into his own person fully separate from what his original creator worked on.

[@Neutral_Tired]

One of my favourite characters I ever played was a very early warforged who wasn't quite sentient. He was mostly sentient, could feel and make choices and all that jazz, but he was wholly bound by his programming. He mostly behaved like a normal person but there were a few iron-clad rules that he literally could not break. "Protect innocent humanoid life" "Obey your commanding officer" "Protect humanoid life" "Protect your brothers in arms" "Protect life" And they were prioritised in that order. It made for some cool scenes, and even led to PVP once when the party failed to convince him the guy they were killing was a threat to other lives (he liked the party, so he mainly stuck to protecting the guy instead of fighting them and apologised profusely afterwards). It made for good character moments, some conflict, a lot of existential questioning and he acted as the moral compass of the party (mostly) This was with a party I trusted to handle conflict of this nature, never try this with a new table

[@davencabrera4379]

The first time I tried DnD I was DM and my 3 friends were a sorcerer, rouge, and bard so I had my character be a warforge paladin so they wouldn’t die instantly and knowing nothing I was shocked at how close its backstory was to the actual story

[@andrewthegeek6522]

3:10 ok lets be fair these are war robots if you were witnessing war and villages being burned down for 30 years you wouldn't like seeing them either. course that's not how they tend to be ran most people just ignore npc's reactions to tieflings warfordged and other races that are supposably reaction inducing

[@andrewnewell1142]

Best way I saw it explained was imagine you own a bar and an AK-47 walks in and asks for a booth. When you say that weapons aren’t allowed in your business he says his name is Gerald and he’s a person. You ask him what he’s buying then and he says “oh no I don’t eat or drink thank you though”

[@Drekromancer]

@@andrewnewell1142 That actually made it click in a way I never thought of before, thanks!!

[@ImperialCoffee769]

5:45 that gave me the image of a dwarven artificer or forge cleric and a warforged fighting over any scrap metal they can find while the rest of the party watches with mild amusement except for that one character who acts as the parties parent/common sense staring in utter disappointment.

[@KHJohan]

Warforged can easily be reflavoured for another setting by changing their building materials. Maybe your warforged is made from wood? are you a new species? A magical construct? A body haunted/controlled by a spirit/soul?

[@dragoliched1977]

I actually did that for my character in my current campaign. Warforged didn't exist yet, but because of the actions of my previous character from a different campaign and his household/knightly order my current character was born. The lore behind him is that the Demker knights on orders from Drachenkaiser Hastedir von Demker created a steampunk robotic body using all their knowledge on science and magic. They couldn't get it to come to life on its own, so they asked a bunch of souls if they wanted to inhabit the body and fight demons. Based on a role on a d100 to see what ancient heroes soul agreed, it ended up being the founding member of the Demker knights and ancient ancestor The Demonbreaker. That was all that happened so far. Can't wait to play him in session one.

[@tommyz6848]

Virgin Warforged: “Ah yes, I aspire to be a humble shoemaker and leave the horrible way of violence forever!” Chad Warforged: “Well, just another day in the life *proceeds to mercilessly beat a man to death* ”

[@beastwarsFTW]

Gigachad Warforged: "I sell death and dismemberment, if you're good at something then you should be paid for your services."

[@tommyz6848]

@@beastwarsFTW Megachad Warforged: *Fortunate Son plays in the background*

[@Schmeethe88]

@@tommyz6848 flips switch on chest labeled "Fortunate Son". Both sides of the switch read "on"

[@deepstrike9750]

Even Chad warforged design TIME TO LOOK LIKE A GUNDAM

[@williamwray2522]

I love Warforged. My 1st was a fighter who took an oath not to kill because of his weapon origin and his "mom" told him to respect sentient life. That aspect has made rollplaying him do much fun!

[@TheZombunnehLives]

That last part is a giant mood. I've never had a DM allow a Warforged

[@battledummie5656]

Had a warforged barbarian named Crash, was cobbled togather from random machine parts thanks to some kobolds. Now whenever he rages one of his components goes off and does something werid (wild soul barbarian)

[@demonkingsparda]

Reminds me of Priest, my warforged forge cleric. A bunch of dwarves found him like 30 years after the Godwar(which was the inciting incident of the campaign) and rebuilt him. In gratitude he began helping at their forge and worshipping Muradin, as the dwarf who found him, who basically became an adoptive brother to him, said Muradin's voice guided him to Priest

[@darklordofsword]

I literally just introduced a warforged minor NPC in the campaign I run today; his name is Niello (a black compound made of sulfer, copper, lead and silver, used for decoration by adding it to ingraved designs, like ink for metal) and he's one of the apprentices at a major NPC's weapon and armor shop.

[@zigomiceto1308]

I once created a warforged name Metallis Aureum, I was a begginer in dnd at the time but I basically made so that Metallis had a factory defect on his personality chip, which made him alternate between a his normal self, a cowboy, a samurai, Basically Bruce Lee, an Alcoholic and more that I don't remember, every session. It was really fun to roleplay it and people on the table would crack everytime, it was hillarious

[@plumbow4390]

My first character was a Warforged Druid that was 'reactivated' a long 713 years ago. It was rusty and busted, so I made its constitution crap and its dexterity mod 0. My friend called me out for it, but I thought it was pretty cool. I never really got to develop my Warforged to remember its forgotten past and to discover its new identity as our campaign ended with only 11 sessions and broke out due to drama. Now, on a new campaign, I'm playing a warlock protector evil aasimar in a bloodborne, AC blackflag world setting. Shit went from '😐am robot' to '😈must offer filth for my patron'

[@aiseanaivalu2143]

House Cannabis is now my Eberron head canon

[@kiernanmcclelland7212]

Pouring one out for my warforged barbarian from years ago, BORT. BORT gave its spark stopping a mind flayer invasion, not because it wanted to but it was what IT chose to do. "You are who you choose to be."

[@Kcg8rGaming]

I played a warforged built for the purpose of collecting knowledge and artifacts around the world. When it’s creator went missing it just kept going out to find more artifacts and knowledge no matter how trivial. It eventually broke down due to lack of maintenance and was found by a swarm of miniature twig blights that housed themselves into the warforged helping it move around. This was my Swarm Keeper Warforged Ranger named Twimble. The blights helped with motor functions and Twimble gave them food and shelter.

[@pergproductions]

2:59 That's pretty much the driving motivation behind The Punisher in Garth Ennis' Max run

[@jlaw131985]

I've been running a Sharn campaign where the warforged bard has multiple identities that they are trying out to see what fits. They have at least 6, and switch between them in fun ways. I have so many fun things planned for that character...

[@assembly_language3948]

I played a Warforged who was awakened by the party in what looked to be his original shipping container. The overarching story of the campaign became centered on me (unexpectedly and somewhat stressful), as we tried to determine if I was one of those made before the Treaty, or illegally after. Still one of my favorite characters.

[@msteerie]

I played a warforged who was someones attempt at making the perfect being, his creator took warforged from all over who had mastered all different things, like one that was great at playing piano, one that was great at babysitting, one that was great with swords, blah blah blah. He then took whatever "soul" thing they might have & forged them all into one body, making Baldric Ungart (named after the creators dead son) who was at least good in most things, a Jack of All Trades you could say (he was a bard :P)

[@Drekromancer]

That's a great idea. But it occurs to me that this would also be a perfect justification for the Channel Divinity power of the Knowledge Domain cleric! The Wisdom of the Ages ability lets you pull a skill or tool proficiency out of your ass for like an hour. It's typically explained as "the gods of knowledge grant you temporary access to knowledge and expertise beyond your ken," but I can't help thinking that it could also be explained as "perfect Omni-droid queries external hard drives for tool and skill proficiencies it doesn't have by default!"

[@msteerie]

@@Drekromancer Yo thats super fun!! I was a relatively new player when I made Baldric again they're 100% at least gonna have a couple levels into knowledge cleric (if not all their levels :P)

[@jdcoffeestreams4333]

My Campaign has one running an orphanarium/magic school and he is just bright and chipper and loves hearing people learn. Also he is under house arrest and magically chained into the building because the previous Dean assumed he would leave being an immortal death machine (even though he is just a soft old robot in robes)

[@MarkHolmberg]

I had a warforged NPC I used in a campaign I was DM'ing. His name was Thirteen and he was a Juggernaut but had the programming of a Skirmisher because they gave him the wrong instruction set in the factory. He would "clomp around stealthily" believing he was hidden, but in reality had this massive body. It was great times.

[@wildharpy6435]

I actually came up with an urban fantasy world that incorporates the Warforged. Basically, as time went on and technology progressed the Warforged were considered outdated and humanoids started designing successors (which I actually made a statblock for). When humanoids tried to disassemble the Warforged, they faught back, and when they deployed the successors, they joined the Warforged.

[@clericofchaos1]

Warforged have always been the coolest race in D&D. They have always been the bane of survival-based campaigns because they don't actually have to do any work to survive. Which an awful lot of dm's hate because they think it makes their story less interesting somehow. If SO much of your campaign relies on survival that you ban warforged and spells like goodberry, you've made a very boring game. I've also seen dm's ban them (and other races that don't need to breathe) from seafaring games...because there's no fear of drowning, i guess. Even though people don't play as pirates because they want to drown, they play as pirates because pirates are badasses.

[@nLinggod]

pirates are just adventurers on the ocean. they rob, murder and rape then just roam elsewhere leaving destruction in their wake.

[@STORMB999]

I don't think banning things that "break" survival is boring. Your DM tries to make the game tense and lets the players get creative in their ways to survive. If there's one player who survives by existing, that tension disappears and that player has no need for creativity anymore (except for helping others, I guess).

[@Anterran99]

I mean AC is only one way of threatening players, any good DM knows your saving throwes and what is your lowest one :)

[@joelsasmad]

@@STORMB999 I see where your coming from but I think that is where setting expectations in a session zero comes into play. Like if the players actually want to do a tense survival-oriented game they probably wouldn't want to play a warforged in the first place. Meanwhile if they want to be a living combat machine or be in a more roleplay heavy adventure exploring ptsd or the meaning of having purpose in life, then they probably don't want a tense survival-oriented game in the first place.

[@clericofchaos1]

@@nLinggod And are awesome.

[@MilqDust]

In our campaign Warforged were created by having sentient souls fused into them. One of our party members has vague memories of life as a tribal warrior before transplanted into a new body.

[@-POISON-]

Probably the best video I've seen about Warforged. I am running an Eberron campaign and the Lord of Blades is the BBEG. The armies of the world united against the warforged army in a final battle in Mournland and the party was sent to assassinate him. They failed. Lvl 19 TPK.

[@LezbionestHere]

My warforged, Renzia, is mostly using warforged as a base. She's an enchanted mannequin, who are was her masters main display model for her dresses. Originally she just twirled and danced in dresses and assorted outfits. Eventually her master ordered her to the attic and she stood there for 120 years. She is now a semi sapient murder doll that creeps the other players out xD

[@vinnybonboot]

In Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, they came out with a construct creature called the Metallic Sentinels. Essentially, they are sentient robots created by a dragon to assist in protecting the dragon's domain. In a campaign I'm getting ready to run, I'm using a lot of stuff from Fizban's. So when a player wanted to be a warforged, I told him about the Metallic Sentinels and asked if he wanted to play a Warforged reskinned as the sentinels from Fizban's. He agreed, and I'm so excited to see how it works. He is essentially the same the normal warforged race, but with a few small homebrewed details to make it more similar to the metallic sentinels

[@TheSylveonSurfer]

Wow. It's weird. I was literally JUST thinking about Warforged the night before this dropped. I was contemplating a good Warforged character and then I thought about Oath of Redemption Paladin and nothing has made more sense to me for a Warforged ever. A Warforged who ventures around attempting to help those in need, is oathbound to avoid violence unless as an absolute last resort, and in the process, change people's perception of Warforged. And the neat thing is that Paladins don't require a god. Their powers come from devotion to their ideals. And what else does a newly liberated sentient AI have to do other than devote itself to a cause? As a side note, Oath of Redemption is kinda hilarious to me, at least at level 20, because they become AFK gods. Their plan of action at Lvl 20 is to plant themselves in the middle of combat and just kinda sit there. I'm exaggerating but only slightly. They can't attack anything or deal damage or else they lose FULL DAMAGE RESISTANCE FROM EVERY SOURCE.

[@SilentZieth]

As someone who’ve played multiple warforgeds, they’re fun. My character were Anchor who was a barbarian that was bought by an alchemist to help around the shop, Specter who was the master of stealth but with an overall apathetic attitude towards everything, and my current one, Sledge who hits like his name sake but is currently discovering the what it means to be alive.

[@lacatan6664]

will forever love my warforged character that departed severely from the race lore to be a sentient haunted doll created by the raven queen to house several dead people. good fun

[@logangraham3689]

My Warforged Celestial Warlock is called Nearer The Sun Than Is Advisable, and he used to be an Aaracokran noble with a birth defect that denied him flight. To keep him from dying, he was chosen as a test subject for the Warforged project, but the transfer failed, leading to his death. An angel finished the transfer, and he awoke 500 years later to a new world.

[@Blind_Dragoon]

I love the name so much

[@logangraham3689]

@@Blind_Dragoon I stole it from Fun City, a Shadowrun podcast.

[@derek382]

Honestly, even non-eberron warforged storytelling can be really good as long as certain things are paralleled, like for example the origin of the race, but it's still a bit upsetting that enough people think warforged are just robots, when instead reading even a little about them you discover that they are in fact alive and self thinking beings

[@coolnerdstuff]

Back in the Races of Eberron supplement for 3.5, there was a prestige class (essentially a mini-class you could multiclass into) called a Reforged. Where Warforged Juggernauts were a prestige class all about fully becoming a machine, Reforged were all about becoming a real boy like Pinocchio. This was back when warforged could only heal from getting repaired, and had interesting flavor connotations besides.

[@TetrisShark70]

Love the Warforged. I used their base story to inspire a big part of lore in my personal home campaigns. They're called the K-units and they're basically designed from the get go to be modular as hell. The implications is that any robot in fiction could be, or is based on the K units. It's a really meta thing that all my players love.

[@maximutatro3176]

A butterchurner with the dedication of an ice blooded killer machine is undoubtably one of the best characters for any setting

[@DrAmethyst]

Watching this video again because I'm playing as a Warforged Fighter in a new campaign, but to make it interesting, he is also a businessman named Moorrkoin who buys crowbars then convinces people to buy them off him for an increased price. He's also very ambitious and a little stuck up, even having a never ending cigar in his mouth to make him appear more successful as a stereotypical businessman.

[@CritScratch]

I made a small sized warforged wizard that looks basically like Vivi from ff9 with a boot tied around his neck like a necklace. His name is Boot the Junkyard Wizard and he just likes hanging around humans and doing human things but not fully understanding or being physically able to do them like eatin, drinking, and getting sick (he pretends cause it is a normal human thing to be sick)

[@daedricderp754]

I made a very large warforged named FL1NT who was built as a front line shield. Built to take damage. And he follows a person who reactivated him after he was heavily damaged while on a battlefield. That person encouraged him to choose his own path so he became a warforged samurai and protected his friends not out of programming but of his own will.

[@thomanator1000]

I love myself some warforged undergoing existential crisis.

[@Slvt4Bread]

I absolutely adore the warforged race, simply because of tropes like Revenant from Apex, Glados and Wheatly from Portal, even Bastion from Overwatch, and the fact that you could remake any and all of them. I currently have one based on a little of HK-47 from Knights of the Old Republic, and it is going swimmingly.

[@dragonmaster613]

I did a Warforged Druid. They were tired of War and meditated under a tree. After analyzing the nature around whilst remembering the devastation of War, they became a defender of Nature and swore against any form of unnecessary destruction.

[@dekkard4982]

This is perfect timing. Im helping my friend make his first D&D character whos a warforged wizard

[@matthewcampbell3146]

My favourite characters have always been warforged. I had a forged bard named Duke who often threw the message spell around to mess with people. Another was a Warforged forge domain cleric named batten burg. The guy who found him thought he was a fancy oven and baked cake in his chest for a few months beofre waking him up

[@ItsRubenMorris]

I’ve been working on a warforged artillerist that’s identity is hyper-focused on artistic perfection. They think of their cannons and firearms not as tools of war, but as avenues to prove that they are a master of their craft (which is just coincidentally a violent one). The idea was that this warforged had been studying art and artists as a way to try and understand the more abstract parts of humanity - but they have misinterpreted the purpose of art. To them, art is competitive not expressive, and they would constantly be making alterations to their body in pursuit of perfection, which they could never truly achieve because of the constantly shifting idea that people have of the perfect body or perfect art.

[@camblycreeper7999]

My friend playing a Warforged from a (different campaign setting than Ebberon) in our Ravenloft game has the Backstory of "They woke up in a field and deduced they must have fallen from the sky", they live carefree ofen just attaching things like feathers to themselves. They are the Party druid, named Druid.

[@camblycreeper7999]

The party consisted in the House of Lament as The Undead guy who woke up outside with no memory and was just called L, the Paladin of the god of Roads who also is a colour sucking Dhampir, A Goddess of light and fire shoved in a traumatised child, and Druid. Since then L got a living tattoo that thinks it's his mother, The Paladin who adopted most of the Party also lost the Child to the Mists to be replaced by the players new character; Deformed, Agoraphobic Fairy in an Iron Defender shaped like a 'Gorilla Dog', Also L found his sister in Lamordia, she's had her legs sewn together and forced into becoming a Mermaid.

[@Toolgirl64209]

From your description, the LoB statblock is for if he DOES turn out to be evil, but any DM could just say "Ok so this King of Chernobyl is a really cool dude and a father to his people.

[@connorsmith1005]

I love having warforged in my party as a DM! Sprinkling in little things in the night in the corners of their senses when they are in stand by mode is a fun foreshadowing tool. And sure, the 300 pound robot seams pretty gangster, till he encounters a bad wooden floor.

[@TheDakkaman]

Warforged: “YAAAA RASPUTIN!” Everyone around: *Deep and well-founded concern*

[@AnInsaneOstrich]

I've currently got a Warforged Storm Herald Barbarian called H.A.S.T, which stands for "Hellion Automated Shock Trooper" which isn't even a name. It's his model. The whole design philosphy of the Hellion models was to basically charge face first into enemy lines, break through and force a flanking manoeuvre THROUGH the enemy frontlines by distracting the enemy through attacking and blaring foghorns. The whole "Storm Herald" thing came about as the campaign is taking place in Faerun, so an airship he was defending stumbled through a dimensional rift (still dunno what caused it, it's an ongoing campaign) and he fell off of the ship, causing damage to his internals leading to Coolant Leaks (Tundra) Fuel Leaks (Desert) or "accidental" Energy Discharges (Sea). He is also the robot equivalent of a hermaphrodite, because of... "morale" reasons... :)

[@benh8703]

Warforges have always been my favorite dnd race, my favorite character Zerp is a warforge wizard who is trying to find their identity after being abandoned in the basement of a druid! Been waiting for this video forever!!

[@GuardianTactician]

Made a Warforged barbarian named "Krash". One of the first warforged produced, designed to be a big dumb soldier. He assesses threats while in combat to determine if safety protocols should be disengaged, or a few controlled swings will resolve things. I'll give you one guess as to what situations cause his normally cyan colored eyes to turn terminator red.

[@MistressMajora]

I played a Warforged Bard named FØX-TRCR (or Fox Tracer). He was originally designed to find military foxholes and destroy them, but the war ended before he could get around to doing it. Instead he was given a mandolin and lived with a neurotic music teacher in a town outside of Baldur's Gate. One thing led to another and FØX found himself in Avernus. Being dumb and in pristine condition, he had a hard time coping with the disgusting plane and eventually developed an irrational fear of diseases and germs, despite being naturally immune to disease. It led to a bunch of fun character interactions especially in combat. Rotting corpses and flea-bitten devils threw him into panic attacks. So yeah, my warforged ended up being a hypochondriac.

[@trogg1344]

In my world of Bhum, you may be a Warforged if you... 1. Die 2. Your buddies catch your soul in a diamond 3. They trek to the far north to find the Augres (Ogres who invaded then made roommates with Dwarves...) 4. Convince the Dwarven trained Augre smiths to make your buddy a new body... 5. Be a Warforged, with your dead PC's classes and consciousness...

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Only one means of transference???

[@NetVoyagerOne]

I play a Warforged Barbarian (Path of the Immortal Titan, from Mordenkainen's Codex of Allies). Retribution Engine XIII is a 7ft tall, 450lb, maul-wielding Dwarven terror weapon created to turn Drow into paste in the war in the Underdark. He was damaged, and went offline, only to find the war over when he was reactivated. He now is trying to find a new objective in a world where the conflict he was created to fight has long since ended.

[@JDizzle_98]

I have an idea for a character who's an Artificer that has a secret project he's been doing behind the scenes that the party doesn't know about. Once the character dies the project is revealed to be a Warforge that has his memories except for the day he died because he couldn't send the memories via magical email or something

[@Josh47C]

I made a warforged divine soul sorcerer that was made only a few months ago, and the day he was sparked into life his internal core just started glowing a bright yellow divine light and then he went on a big journey to discover who he wanted to be and what he really was. Oh and he was German. It was fun!

[@jesse4550]

Played in Eberron setting. Made a warforged paladin of the Silver Flame. Proselytized to other warforged the party came across. Did a decent job of creating converts to the church. Referred to the Flame as the “Allspark”. Got to level 12 by the end of the campaign, and had followers (fellow converted warforged). When we ended meetings we would say a prayer to the Flame and then state, “till all are one.” Then shake hands and separate.

[@Nyghtking]

As a warforged you now have the freedom to choose what you want to do and who you want to be, and there's a huge world out there for you to explore so you might as well start exploring.

[@evillaughinthebackground5732]

I have a concept for a Warforged Artificer Battle Smith. His Steel Defender is a replica of his master, and the warforged is constantly working on him, to make it as similar as possible to his creator. Basically, he was created as a companion for an archeologist, who was obsessed to find a mythical city lost in time. My warforged was his assistant, and helped him keep track of the routes and maintaining his equipment. One time, they enter a cave system and there's a collapse. The warforged wakes up years later, and continues the search for his master and the legendary city.

[@zyxaqc]

One of my favorite ideas for a character I've yet to use is a Warforged who, because reasons, thinks he's a ghost trapped in a suit of armor trying to pretend he's not dead while desperately searching for memories of his non-existent past life in order to figure out what unfinished business he has that's preventing him from crossing over.

[@gingeraffe]

I'm currently playing a warforged clockwork sorcerer but we're sort of spinning it from forged-for-war to made-for-a-single-purpose-and-now-that-purpose-isn't-really-an-option. DM had a juvenile mimic pop in to either be immediately adopted or crushed by unfeeling construct. I now have a mini-me and we both need to figure out how to be people/members of society

[@excessivepotato137]

Bout to make murderbot a socially awkward mercenary using a warforged artificer.

[@Orkunkadunk]

I wanna make a warforged monk, idk why but the idea of a war robot becoming a peaceful martial artist is a rlly novel concept to me

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

The UA Warforged Juggernaut Subrace has a d8 in unarmed attacks... I'm not sure if it's better than being a Monk or a Fighter with Unarmed Combat Style.

[@1ZPhoenixZ1]

Every other race: i sleep Warforged: I sleep but with my eyes *open*

[@SollowP]

Played a Warforged and he was naive as hell and could not tell lies. Not out of some divine curse or magical mcguffin, he just didn't understood the purpose of one. While his own life was artificial, he valued the life of others above all else. If he could not live a proper one, he dedicated his false life into making other people's better.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

I've always wanted to run a Warforged like a Cyberman, trying to convert everyone else to Warforged as everyone has to be complaining about him for a reason - might as well stop division by turning EVERYONE into Warforged as well! I want to run him as a Paladin so he can forcefully graft robot parts onto people to keep them alive, instead of the usual Lay on Hands.

[@Drekromancer]

Brooooo. Permanent, tangible, visible consequences to the use of Lay on Hands actually makes it SO much more interesting! _You are healed, but at what cost?_

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@Drekromancer You are the first person who hasn't told me that this is an abysmal idea that disrespects the lore! Thank you!

[@mylesgrusnick2471]

I am playing a Warforged swordmage, a 5th edition take on spell sword. I am estimated to be over 1000 years old but was out of commission for several hundred. A soldier in Bahamut's army in an ancient war. My DM also treats me as an inorganic object at times to help balance out all the strengths that I have.

[@blue13rain48]

I believe warforged are just walking spaghetti monsters. They have bodies like vine blights and the armor is like a bike with a tree grown around it. Warforged cleric of the flying spaghetti monster with pasta strainer armor is perfection.

[@yeetpactio5244]

One of my favorite characters is sight a warforged battle calculations bot who once the war was over was hunted for his knowledge so he tried to enter a different reality but failed and ended up being stuck in the void.while in the void sight eventually learned how to speak to it and made a deal,he works for the void in exchange he is given extreme power. my dm decided the power I earned was BEING ABLE TO CAST ANY SPELL OR MAKE UP NEW ONES as long as I have the spell slots for it.

[@Antimonium]

I have a fellow player in an eberron campaign that is playing a warforged and he keeps notes of how we tell him our food tastes, it’s very cute

[@MrFox-ox2ze]

I have this character idea of a soldier from an ancient kingdom brought back to life by having his soul implanted into a warforged's core and implanted into his preserved body in place of his organic heart. But I'm unsure if he would fall under the Warforged catagory or as some kind of undead.

[@krazyfan1489]

I like the idea of a Warforged with the scorpion belt, Arachnid chassis, fins, and claws. they saw a lobster one day and thinks they are neat enough to look like. they pull small boats around to ferry people. they also cling to the bottom of Big ships and sink them.

[@silversoul1342]

I've played 5 of them so far and they're all so much fun. I have another 2 lined up for future games as well. One is a once humaniod soul now bound into a warforged vessel with amnesia, she can't really feel, eat, breathe, drink or sleep. It's going to be a story of coming to terms with a body she did not ask for... like Robocop. My other is trying to find meaning after losing the person he was made to take care of for his entire life. One used to be a miner bot that went a bit haywire and they decided to give him a soul and a new body. He just has a job now and is very happy cause he can horde metal. My newer one will have been made to be an emotionless killer but slowly discovers emotions and breaks away from her creators. Then I have essentially a robotics student's project gaining a soul and saying they want to go to college. Warforged are an insanely fun race to play for all the character building things you can do, also that high AC... You'll have to pry them from my cold dead hands.

[@whitelasagna6786]

I have a warforged druid in the queue. It's funny that you mention that but at the end because I want him to have been replacing the metal in his body with wood and stone to be more "natural", being conflicted about being a constructed being. His end goal is to eventually become a flesh and blood creature. If I can figure out how to work it I want to have him be influenced be a necromancer and get turned into some kind of Frankenstein's monster of mismatched meat and skin.

[@mewwww17]

I've been playing a warforged bard but took the eldritch adept feat for mask of many faces (houseruled that I can get away with more shenanigans). So he's like a warforged programmed for espionage that the party hasn't figured out like 10 sessions-in. Like they know something is weird with the frequently shapeshifting human dude, but not what. Soooo much fun to drop little things like not eating very much at all or always being the last to sleep and the first awake.

[@fourkz]

The only warforged I have yet made is one by the name of M055-R007 (pronounced how you would think) who upon becoming sentient said “fuck it, ima figure the world out first, then myself” and sat under a big tree in a forest for 300 years in basically a system reboot

[@tyto9188]

"Warforged are super strong," In 4e warforge litterly can make death saves succeed because they want to.

[@tomdeneen4880]

My warforged was generated a bit randomly. DnD beyond auto suggested the name "Commander" while I was putting my artificer together. And shortly after generation the Star Wars Outlaws trailer dropped. Leading me with a thin and tall former commanding officer of a long over war (campaign not set in Ebberon) who wears a large coat over his frame and who's goal is to perfect war. I hope by the end of this campaign he becomes another parties BBEG for selling cyberpunk cannons to pirates or something

[@proxy90909]

I love warforged probably my favorite race, as I love AC, I mean making a paladin warforged felt like the closest vibe to Doomslayer I could get, no eat, no sleep, only vanquish evil

[@helios9589]

That Ship of Theseus joke at the end hits all the funny bits.

[@Grab_N001]

Warforged that just stood around in a wetter environment, near a forest maybe, literally gathering moss and growing mushrooms, plants wrapping around his body, just standing there watching the world grow around him. Animals return and make homes around him, some squirrels maybe using him to store nuts. He's got a nest on his head and cute birds live there. A family of deer frequent the bushes around him and nibble on the leaves sticking out from him. Then, one day, hunters come and attempt to harm the animals. He suddenly lurches to life and blocks an arrow. A Warforged Druid has been born.

[@Mewilliams227]

I deeply appreciate the way you write and edit your videos. With years of research and experience, writing and playing, you make otherwise academic presentations of lore and gameplay accessible *and* doubly engaging with your humor and wit. Thank you for making these. They are a gift.