Monster Ecology: Warforged

Warforged originate in the Eberron D&D setting, but in 5th edition D&D they form a part of the Forgotten Realms population and aside from details on the Warforged 'race', I will also go into detail about where exactly they come from and tie into, within the greatest setting, of the worlds greatest role playing game.
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[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

I’ve ran a warforged Juggernaut named “Clang” for a while now. He didn’t give that as his name, rather a designation, that being CC-A-495, or, “Combat Construct Alpha 495.” the party named him “Clang,” because that’s the sound his massive footsteps make, and whenever he hits something. He accepted it as his “unofficial designation.”He was a 7 and 1/2 foot tall, slab armored behemoth barbarian. For flavor, the DM renamed his rage to “Target Lock” and various other little bits. He was found by the party outside of a long-deserted ruin of a dwarf city, thought to have been besieged centuries before the events of the campaign. The party artificer, after digging him out of the sand, repaired the damage and got him up and running again. In terms of personality, he is, more or less, a T-800 built to fight undead. He wields a flail with a 15 pound flanged head, and a 6 foot tall kite shield. He became a bit of a party mascot, and the artificer wiled away many hours trying to figure out how she could modify his design. She improved his speech programming, giving him a very slight +1 to charisma checks, and she programmed into him some basic moral precepts, which transformed his personality from T-800, amoral killing machine to, basically fantasy Robocop.

[@nunull6427]

I got to say, if I was a goddess of nature and some ancient weapon of war said it wanted to make daisy chains I'd swoop them up to druidhood so fast the rabbits wouldn't get a chance to m8

[@smilingbandit6900]

like the very first dwarfen druid Pickel Bouldershoulder. Oh i miss the brothers and Cadderly.

[@Zaprozhan]

In 4e, I made a Warforged Warden, sort of a druidic fighter/defender. I consider him Woodforged. Heck, if wizards can make artificial beings for their purposes, why not druids?

[@dimpopcornyo3637]

@@Zaprozhan sounds awesome tho

[@jonastolliver8613]

Made a whole druid subclass and biome(for lack of a better term) for something like this. Ironwood forest protected by a Warforged Circle of The Guardian. He pretty much was just a rogue/fighter/druid/monk mash, running around and making whatever the hell he needs out of these trees with a very weapon-oriented version of the Plantshape(Plant Shape?) spell. His wooden components were also constructed of said material, which made for some very fun Edward Elric style shenanigans

[@Mare_Man]

Since Warforged don't require air or food, I think a submarine party of them walking along the seabed would be an extremely interesting idea. Maybe in a sort of crab-like vehicle.

[@blackhawk3975]

I played a warforged who was reactivated to find the storage building was now in the middle of a lake.

[@Adamborries]

Or astronauts. :)

[@victorvaldez8869]

I love how Terry Pratchett made his freed Golems which are basically the Discworld equivalent of Warforged, you must add in with the spells animating it, the receipt for it's purchase. "I own me..." - Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay

[@shanerooney7288]

The Warf Orged. An Ogre sub species from the coast.

[@alexv3357]

Warf-ogred.

[@nvfury13]

Sounds like a business analysis company started by Lt Warf.

[@kingmasterlord]

half-ogre port city?

[@blackhawk3975]

I run a warforged fighter with a bag of magnetic mustachios and eyebrows that allow him to show emotion.

[@NVEmery]

Genius.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Omg, like drawing a face on!

[@alvathewayfayer1062]

Bro, I’m so stealing this idea

[@blackhawk3975]

@@alvathewayfayer1062 Dude, go right ahead! we need more mustachiod metal men. i only have one request, tell me how your prty reacts to it!

[@youthinasia4103]

It’s been a minute since I’ve played last but I always love to hear what other players come up with for character class info n the details bout the world n everything , it really taps into ones true creativity. I love it

[@ultimateninjaboi]

"Grab a drink and some note paper." Well, shit. I tend to like to listen to these among my work playlist... XP.

[@cyrilmartin5613]

In one of the campain I played a player used a warforged fighter sharshooter with crosbow expert. Warrior are so powerfull with crossbow that it roleplayed his carcacter to have an implanted automatic crossbow in the arm to justifie all the attack it had per turn

[@verticalflats2816]

Warforged is one of my favorite races

[@kingstewy]

Would a Warforged Druid turn into robo animals like Transformers?

[@AJPickett]

I like to think so, however, the magic that animates the Warforged is primordial and elemental in nature, allowing the entity to move around and have a semblance of life in a body made of inert matter, so, the primal power to transform the inert matter into a living form is outlandish, but hey, it's magic!

[@kingstewy]

I wouldn't want it living. I'd want it to be a metal wood robo bear. aka Transformers.

[@Beefcheef]

kingstewy. That would be awsome

[@trequor]

RAW yes. The 5e Druid Wild Shape keeps racial features (except special senses)

[@bolrath6984]

... I'll allow it.

[@kurtoogle4576]

I was always very leery about allowing warforged into my games prior to this, but not I've got ideas of how it could work. Thanks!

[@AJPickett]

aaaaaah, that is so good to hear, makes this whole vid worth every minute of work that went into it.

[@sentor98]

@@AJPickett I'm wondering where AJ got his info. I can't find squat online on how warforged fit into Forgotten Realms, least of all the wiki.

[@Mare_Man]

@@sentor98 I'd wager he has a *real* library of info, the stuff WotC gets real uppity about people putting online

[@NWLR-tv]

A warforged monk? A man made warforged who was to act as his deceased son (or grandson) but was abandoned , and later found by travelling monks where he began learning the spiritual ways. He then left the monastery to search for his Father and to find his true purpose for his creation and what his future will be. He's around 5'6 wears simple clothing, carries a napsack and with his stuff, and has artificial hair which he was made with and along with synthetic skin made for him by the monastery. He doesn't talk much as he takes his time with such things as communication. He has made it a habit that every dusk and dawn he would sit and meditate on the day and his actions, he would then practice his fighting technique. Ands that all I can think of at the moment for this character.

[@nvfury13]

You want a panicked Warforged? Watch them face what mine did...a Rust Dragon.

[@metalskirmish]

rust elementals are very usefull for taking back crazy buffs or magic items your party might have acquired if magic artifacts fall into player hands as a result of unforeseen 20's and the like.

[@metalskirmish]

the issue with warforged is that a skilled wizard can take them out without any spellslots if theyre rich enough to build an electromagnet, or can just sprinkle aluminum oxide on em. diamond abrasive dust would in theory be a deathcurse to any warforged significantly far enough from a complete rebuilding.

[@DruPhred]

This is awesome! thanks for the vid :) I made a Warforged, but then never got to play him, so I just wrote a semi-short story about him. Like he was telling a story to his current companions about some old adventures. He was build to be a soldier so he has an assembly line type name, FUU2613 (Frontline Upgraded Unit) he goes by Foo for short. I like to make a character at level 1 and again at level 20 to give me a goal to work towards, so I'm not just fumbling and reacting to every twist the story has. Some people buy castles, Foo upgraded himself to be a walking magic item. He had so many things integrated into himself it was crazy. I wish I could remember them all.

[@AJPickett]

Kind of the Iron Man/Inspector Gadget of Warforged :)

[@DruPhred]

He put Iron Man to shame, we weren't just heroes, we were SUPER HEROES! He was super paranoid about dying so he had like 3 or 4 different ways to heal himself and a couple of different ways to escape if combat didn't go his way. Don't get me wrong he was quite the powerhouse (on the level 20 character sheet, which was DM approved as a plausible goal), His level 1 "Upgrade" was a Mithral frame, an attaching small shield, and a large Scimitar because of Monkey Grip, which was later increased by enchanting his arms as "Strong Arm Bracers" (this was back in 3.5 and the DM at the time said they stacked), the weapon was sizing so it would be whatever size I needed it to be. He had several embedded magic gems: in the left hand was a black diamond that let him cast a quickened, maximized Disintegrate spell that was Empowered to a level 9 spell and cast by a 20th level caster; he had 5 gems embedded into his chest that shaped like a "V" I don't remember exactly what they did but one was Repair Critical Damage (or whatever the high level healing spell for Warforged was); one was Improved Invisibility; I can't remember the other three, probably a teleport spell; he had his back enchanted with a cloak effect (I think it was the cloak of the web or flying but I don't remember); his feet were like boots of striding and jumping; the underside of his left forearm had a light crossbow that shot enlarging ammo so it shot ballista bolts with self creating "unlimited" ammo; the underside of his right forearm hid away his sword so he could draw it as a free action; and that doesn't even go into what his sword and shield were enchanted with. It was a high magic home brew campaign that had elements from several sources. I'm sad I never got to play him. :(

[@AJPickett]

All those power gems... He is sounding more like Thanos now... :)

[@DruPhred]

YES, Thanos would die by my hand!!! If only I had the Soul Stones :D I could have used a few Ion Stones to round out my amazingness :D

[@DruPhred]

I had a memory about the magic stones last night and I wanted to share it with you. When Diablo 2 came out with socketed items, my friend and I immediately implemented them into D&D and later, when we got the Magic Item Compendium, when we found out about magic stones and rewrote how sockets worked in our game. Each socket counted as a +2 enchantment and the weapon/armor had to be +1 for the first 2 sockets and +2 for the 3rd and 4th socket, so an item could in theory be +2 and have 5 magic gems in it. I should have made the Warforged with 4 sockets in his "armor"/chest and swapped them out as needed... that would have been very interesting and a ton of fun :) :) :)

[@theraven5850]

The most OP race ever. Doesn't require sleep, has insane AC, is immune to status conditions and gets a double proficiency in a skill. Honestly, whenever a DM complains about homebrew yet allows warforged I usually just play one and break the game to prove a point. Android is a lot more balanced than warforged.

[@AJPickett]

I cast Heat Metal.

[@thenovicedm7966]

Was not aware that Warforged were merging into my absolute favorite setting of Forgotten Realms. I'll have to watch this video. Though I'm not all that familiar with the warforged race but interested to see this one.

[@AJPickett]

I think you will like what they add to the locations within Forgotten Realms.

[@thenovicedm7966]

Enjoyed the video. I think I have a wonderful use for a couple of Warforged NPC in my game. I imagine them serving a guardians for a vile Red Wizard that follows Szass Tam and is creating an army of undead beneath the Haunted Halls of Eveningstar. I can almost imagine my player's faces when they come face to face with their 1st Warforged in the Forgotten Realms setting I'm running. Of course, the Cult of Dragons might welcome the party's help by that time. Thanks again for the video.

[@AJPickett]

I would love to see their faces as well! Most welcome, keep me posted as to how your campaign is going, I love to hear what everyone has come up with :)

[@thenovicedm7966]

Last night my guys cleared an old tomb of Myrkul and "inadvertently" released a trapped Vampire. Of course they didn't know that until a few days later. They almost dirtied themselves when the "town news broke". LOL ! My guys think I'm so cruel with my cascading story arcs. We had a blast and they've done some wildly creative things. Good Inspiration all around. I'm still holding on to the Warforged for awhile.....their not yet at that point of the game. I'll keep you posted.

[@williamkeith1180]

So, back in the day, me and my group of friends always played pathfinder. I once had a human wizard, whose name is lost to time, that became a court wizard for a certain kingdom. On one of his adventures he acquired the ability to create living constructs out of whatever materials he wanted. The intention was that these were low level constructs that could aid him in battle. These constructs were permanent, not some temporary construct binded by magic and controlled. So, in the kingdoms time of war against the neighboring wood elves, it asked me to create some sort of battle construct to aid in war. So my wizard got a natural 20 on the roll to craft this specific war construct. Mind you, the kingdom had also given my wizard, basically an armory full of heavy armor, at his request, in order to complete this task. So basically what was created was an 8 foot tall suit of sentient black armor. His name was Alfonse. So, since the end of the war, he basically has been wandering the forest nearby the kingdom slaughtering any wood elves he sees, for that was his purpose in creation. Mind you, my wizard was aligned pure neutral, se he doesnt give a fuck about all of the dead wood elves, he just wanted to learn as much as possible about magic and become as powerful as possible. I just thought it was hilarious that my wizard basically made a warforged juggernaut long before I had ever heard of the warforged as a playable character.

[@Xion_Toshiro]

Ok. War Forged for the win. Dragon Born, Teifling, Oni and Elves are also Top Favorites, but the idea of the War Forged really sells it to me. I'm a sucker for anything Tech based.

[@dakotastein9499]

you want to be ridiculously powerful,play a warforged fighter multi classed with artificer

[@alexandercross9081]

In my group we have a warforged with unique caractiristics, specifically A. He looks like a robot Kobold, including the small size B. He's an artificer and C. He's a Van Neumman probe (self duplicating robot) sent by a universe overrun by the mindflayers to invade a world that runs on norse mythology, but D. Transitioning to another universe somehow scrambled his memory circuits and thus E. He's our friend and even if he gets his memorys back he's a self aware robot, (because mindflayers have been known to create partially self aware microscopes) and F. While he's only a level 1 now, when he gets his constructs up to 7 HD, they are small creatures in there own right, so the plan is, he's going to create a duplicate then he and that duplicate will create duplicates, then he and the initial duplicate will go off and have adventures while the second two, which have backups of all the important programing, go and build a factory continually making duplicates, and this will act like a clone lab, for a wizard, meaning this character can never die unless the PC, or the DM wants him to

[@georgebulbakwa9017]

Almost 3 years from the release of this video I am drawn back to it. I've been toying with the idea of a Lantanese gnome that wanted eternal life but didn't want to dabble in lichdom. A warforged whose soul is that of its creator. A gamble that might be a final project or the first steps to immortality.

[@tylerdurden3347]

I have used something similar to that. I used the Black Mirror concept of the "Button" that clones the mind and memories of the person it is used on. This is stored at the core of the mind of the Warforged. Normally, a clean slate button with only basic routines is used... But if a creator wanted to live forever, they would construct a warforged that only needed to have the "Button" inserted and then boot it up. If the button was imaged (like a computer backup) close to the creator's death, then the warforged would know that the creator had passed on, but they would have all the creator's memories from before their death. I would let you do that in my game, and would be enthusiastic to see what kind of experience you'd have.

[@blazingshadow2669]

@@tylerdurden3347 sort of like the clone spell but instead of a clone body a warforged gets booted up

[@andresmarrero8666]

Here is an ideal, repairing and completing a "discovery" from Arcana of the Ancients with the birthing furnace and the warforge furnace artifact as well as technology and diagrams from the Simic Combine and a mythallar with the "discovery" being an old factory or city with a still operational good aligned supercomputer. That sounds like a very fun ongoing plot point.

[@AJPickett]

it does.

[@RedNZBlue]

I love the Warforged as a race! I really liked your ideas of what they'd be as a slave race.

[@AJPickett]

When I was talking about the horrid fate of the enslaved warforged, I kept thinking of Terry Pratchett's 19th Discworld novel, "Feet of Clay".

[@Raivan31]

Did'nt they used to get the clay golems to dig wells and mines and things and then just leave them there for eternity, at the bottom of a hole?

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@Raivan31 The word "horrid" applies, right?

[@MrEnziteBob]

I tend to find the Eberron origin a lot more interesting. The Canith Forge and the Lord of Blades really give them a nice sci-fi/fantasy feel to the race. IDK maybe the new storyline will bring some of the fun of their old origin.

[@derrickhaggard]

Same here. Plus I find the Lord of Blades a fascinating villain as he does have a noble goal in wanting to ensure that the Warforged have a place in Khorvier where they are safe from prejudice, unfair prosecution, and the threat of slavery he's just going about in the wrong way aka he's a extremist willing to do what it takes including murder innocent Warforged who disagree with him in order to achieve his goal.

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Interesting constructs AJ,if I were to create one I would try to find a metal or some other material that is immune to both rust as well as heat,the first thing that came to mind before even seeing the video is those two weakness you mentioned.....but given time I think one of my Black Company members would figure it out! Very nice video man. Spot on m8!

[@nvfury13]

Michael Kelligan Everbright (or Everdark) applied to the body. My Warforged, Thrak, did that after a run in with a Rust Dragon.

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Nick V ill bet 😉

[@FrostWolfPack]

Some reason beast races and warforget had all whays been one of my fave and if I have a chance I play one. And thanks for giving ideas to trow posible Npcs or make future character.

[@AJPickett]

I thought it was important to give that extra info because I have not seen any other vids talking about how they fit into the Forgotten Realms, and thus, the official setting of 5th edition.

[@seanmuller7579]

I have a story about the first time I played dnd So first off, my character was a warforged paladin named Unit 8249, and a little while into the game when me and my teammates leveled up a bit we encounter a troll, we try to convince the troll to let us pass, and we fail then we fight the troll, near the end of the fight the troll falls over, then I proceed to sit on the troll to prevent it from getting up, the troll rolls to see if it can get up...... it rolls a 1 and it breaks both of its legs, and then we finally kill it.

[@kishinasura1989]

A armor one of my characters knows made a warforgered named maul he was a body guard for 2 wizard friends of us and we sometimes took him on adventures so he could gain experience his frame was made of adimatine and mthyral with big heavy plate armor and a thunder hammer he was one of our greatest prizes and was held in high regard. Needless to say the guy that almost scrapped him did not have a happy ending

[@BigDictator5335]

I want to be a warforged disguised as a werebear.

[@Abdega]

A Wereforged Edit: Darn, someone beat me to that joke somewhere else in the comments

[@Mb.greyline88]

Nice vid. Could you do one on the Loxodon please?

[@blueberrywine69]

I would love to have these on DVD

[@AJPickett]

That would be a breach of copyright for the artwork used in these videos, however I could string all the audio files together and make an audio track out of them, perhaps. There is nothing stopping you from using something like SoundTap streaming audio recorder software and capturing all the vids as audio files, and creating your own playlist you can listen to at work or wherever, I feel DVD's are getting a bit out dated these days.

[@DuskyPredator]

Was wondering how one might interact with an artificer as I already have written up a construct obsessed artificer rock gnome who would go as far capturing monodrons for research. Your mention of them being soul searchers and protectors made me think that a paladin would be an interesting class. Although is it conceivable one could be a druid when druids cannot wear metal? Can warforged make more warforged, and would they consider anything parents?

[@AJPickett]

Warforged can be druids, though I have to wonder about wildshape ability.. can you picture them shape shifting into an animal but still being a construct version? That cracks me up. As for an artificer, sure, could go many ways, and a warforged, unless specifically trained in the art, can not make another warforged, so, if they were so inclined to make a new warforged, to be a 'maker' rather than a parent, they would seek out artificers, and the closely guarded, or rare and scattered lore, on how it is done.

[@DuskyPredator]

You said they could live indefinitely, so it makes me think that if cut off a warforged with the abilities might continue to build an army for an empire that does not exist anymore, and or some sort of creepy Terracotta army sort of thing. Or really their indefinite lifespan could have them act as wells of knowledge in the material plane. Could one have been put in charge of an ancient library and have read all of the books? Be the builder of legendary items, or essentially made its body a combination of magical items.

[@AJPickett]

DuskyPredator all possible, really comes down to making the world setting your own.

[@AJPickett]

Shaman was my favorite class in World of Warcraft, but got no love in PVP and raids... but I digress. Is there an actual official published Shaman class? Aside from stuff on the DM's Guild I mean.

[@FrostWolfPack]

Hoo but if the warforgeds outher shell is made of iron wood. And the whild shape in my game group has all whays been like transformer (all most like from beast wars)

[@purplehaze2358]

I sure do love Gluestick Mighty The.

[@commanderbastard1993]

I now want to play a warforged rogue in honour of Bender.

[@matthewbennett1972]

Black Jack and hookers. Forget the black Jack

[@samaustin339]

My Warforged, Quill is an from a home brew version of forgotten realms that is mixed with a ton of old campaigns. Basically he woke up in some ruins one day with no memories, and no way out. So he wandered the halls of the ruins soul searching until he found an old library. He found many archane spellbooks along side other things, and basically taught himself magic for the next 40 years or so. Then an adventuring party found their way in The temple, and left the front door open. Seeing an opportunity Quill left the temple with the idea to explore, and catalogue what he found. (Basically what he considers his purpose for his existence.) He found that the ruins were on an island with no way for him to escape. Until he found a man who happened to be the other party member’s patron.

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Only good warforged video on KZbin I'm a daily AJ video watcher

[@dravenbladesong1]

Do Warforged go dormant or die If dispel magic or similar magic nullification happens to them?

[@AJPickett]

No, they are living beings with an alchemical metabolism, they are magically created, but not magically animated.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Yeah, they are not simple constructs. Rather they are alternatively alive. Instead of flesh and blood they are wood and metal. The process is artificial and magical but the end result is a true life. Not an approximation of it.

[@demetrinight5924]

I was not aware that warforged were so ingrained in the Forgotten Realms setting.

[@Keilink]

A lot of videos talk about Warforged in Eberron but really few explain where they're from in Forgotten Realms :o Thanks !

[@shalomcollege6482]

Am trying to make a general Grievous like character. Can Warforged have more that two arms and have eagle like feet?

[@AJPickett]

Hell yes.

[@shalomcollege6482]

@@AJPickett You made my day.

[@shalomcollege6482]

@@AJPickett I made him a Juggernaut but could he also be an Envoy if so how?

[@GearGearRingLeader]

@@shalomcollege6482 Those are two different Subraces, at best you could talk to your DM about having a Juggernaut go to see someone for those upgrades to have an intergrated tool like an Envoy, but otherwise you would have to choose on or the other for a single character.

[@zerowolf0006]

Shalom College Kenobi

[@spencergarza3750]

Which sounds more intresting? Warforged Ranger Warforged Necormancer Warforged Bard Warforged Rouge

[@AJPickett]

Spencer Garza necromancer

[@danpit2001]

warforged barbarian folk hero background found and repaired(poorly) by a farmer and well when the tax collectors started abusing his "superior officer" .........(robot voice) "COMBAT OVERIDE MODE ENGAGED" bwahahahaha

[@MrUmakemelaff]

Rouge...Because a makeup-wearing robot would be unusual...to say the least.

[@theraven5850]

AJ Pickett Could you do a video on necromancy? It's my favourite school of magic.

[@dakotastein9499]

if your playing homebrew 3.5 or 5e give alchemist or artificer a try as there are some unique advantageous capabilities you could give your character

[@michaelschmon4001]

Mine is a 6ft tall bronze dwarf envoy with an integrated forge

[@NovaRuner]

Ok I know that they are completely different but, some how I am reminded of Alphonse Elric, from Fullmetal Alchemist. You know the the living suit of armour with a soul bound to it. Ok so he is a child in a huge hulking body. Not a soldier like these Warforged things. But my mind made the connection anyway. Awesome video as always AJ

[@dracosdiabolis1769]

had a nasty thought. A warforged paladin of Myrkul.... goes death knight, and tries for his lichdom. lol, eh something I should buildup for a game. LMAO dirty dirty, .... just dirty. a warforged that loses all respect for humanity as a whole. not just humans. I'm thinking a mindset like Ultron Prime or something. ....... hummmmmmmmmmm.

[@AJPickett]

Wow... what would an undead warforged be like?

[@dracosdiabolis1769]

AJ Pickett I was picturing a Ultron Prime that was there when the gods came into being and pushed the primordals out. he was one that helped put that fire primordial asleep in that mountain. so old the sands of time has rubbed off his gliuh on his forehead. but has been sleeping threw the centuries my autocorrect really hates some of the words I'm using. lmao now is awoke, and the gods are in power. and learns about how they get their power from believe. So raise a war forged undead army and kill off all the civilized people. that will kill off the gods and the primordial can come back. sounds simple enough when you have a everlasting lifespan.

[@dracosdiabolis1769]

AJ Pickett as for looks. a armored ghost rider ish with caroded armor and black necro energy around the helm something like a mix of ghost rider and nightmare from soul caliber

[@dracosdiabolis1769]

AJ Pickett I have no life to come up with this horrible game breaking crap lmao

[@dracosdiabolis1769]

AJ Pickett were there's a will, there's a way. 3.5 Artificer spell list. greater humanoid essence. turns a warforged into a humanoid and lose all their abilities and immunities So they can become death knight or a lich. lmao oh the broken crap you can build in 3.5 and lmao

[@kthereturned2874]

5e heat metal would be a bit iffy. I believe Crawford ruled it as not working against a warforged. I believe just because of "target a metal object" and saying warforged were creatures not objects. But honestly it seems like both.

[@ZenodudeMC]

In my game I have a race which Is basically warforged. The whole thing about them is basically a race made as life less automatons for a Great War when souls began to enter There bodies and they began turning on there warlord and unfree "unoccupied" brethren. Now maybe 15-20 years after the war there all mostly out casts as main landers fear the, from those events. And since it a steampunk world there's a law out right forbidding any construct like them to have technologically advanced weapons, which only really go up to guns between flintlocks and muskets to revolvers and old school western chainguns.

[@AJPickett]

ZenodudeMC cool.

[@MrFenris7]

So where do spellcarved warforged fall? I have been playing a spellcarved sorcerer/fighter/artificer. Armor was not really an issue and being able to use various rings and other magic items...like gauntlets of ogre power help make up for any shortcomings. Love your channel and hope to hear what u think of my choices.

[@AJPickett]

What sort of enchantments did you have etched into your characters metal plating?

[@nicholasjonas452]

Sounds like a pretty dope race to play.

[@That80sGuy1972]

I had something similar in my Loom of Magus campaign world, well a lot of things more similar but I am about to tell you about something really Player Character Friendly: Argo, a hero NPC of one of my campaign worlds who was happily available to teach you certain Mana Techniques and can be convinced to join your party with the right CHA checks if it was against an epically bad bad-guy. Argo's real name, his designation, is ARGO P7B6. That's Automated Robotic General Operative of Prototype 7 of Build 6. He's actually a Movian Empire relic, one of their "golems"... a sentient one. The Movian Empire is one of my many "ancients" story hooks. They were also known as Atlantians, Atlanticans, and (as a slur) Reverse Elves. They were really un-gifted magically speaking but were gifted in all other intellectual things, but I digress. Argo adapted to his world lacking the "technological utopia" the Movians once had once they "defeated the magical barbarians and their barbaric powers"... he existed within the areas that did not see the actual front lines. He was surprised as to how effective he was as a "newborn" ARGO P7B6 unit because he was not yet given an assignment before he was shut down via an enemy ("terrorist") attack and put into storage, only to be discovered by the adventurers that created the campaign world the current Player Characters were in. He was able to teach the skill: Offensive Parry. If you have any attacks left in a round, you can use it when someone is attacking you. When they try to attack, you role an attack. If your blow lands, their attack fails and you do your damage. You can couple this with the Mana Technique: Extra Attack if you have no attacks left and have the Mana Points to do it and have that MP Technique. How is he akin to the Warforged? Well, his origin. The Movians created a lot of sentient war machines to be soldiers in place of their populous and not foster the hate of their dominated absorbed populations when they could produce enough of them. Also, he is philosophically a living being despite not technically being a living being... by AD&D standards, he's a living being. His innate armor was not nearly as good because Build 6 was supposed to be more of an infiltrator or otherwise superior general operative as a thinker and thus had no obvious damage immunity (natural armor). As far as he knew, he was the "best model of the ARGO line" that the Movian Empire did... and was traumatized by his learning that the Movian Empire fell because of factions after learning their Crystonian origins and that the Movians were an extreme minority and... meh... lots of noise too much for a mere KZbin comment. ARGO P7B6 looks like a normal man, he aged consistently and broke down as fast as a normal person, but he used an artifact that let him get normal eternal immortality that turns most people to ash. So, his people are not mass-produced immortal bots, they were mass-produced slaves. They were slaves built for war. He also eats, drinks, and "sleeps". Unlike Warforged, normal spells work on him while the non-living spells don't... only normal helpful spells are only 80% effective. Also, he has nothing to fear from Rust Monsters because he's about as metal as any living meat-bg that's mostly water. He was mostly polymers, polycarbons, and a whole mess of organic-based nano-machines that maintained a high-energy carbon-based cybernetic core... so, he can get energy and raw materials by eating things and stuff. Argo also let me pepper in the possibility of other Movian tech-monsters being a thing and I even allowed my players to be ARGO based characters and gave them a list of Build numbers... they did not have the prototype number because they were built after ARGO P7B6. B6 was Argo's build. If they chose it, they would look like a clone of Argo and could only select his basic build abilities. And on that, yeah... I kind of had my Warforged on introducing Argo and having THAT as a PC option. When players realized ARGO P7B6 was basically what they wanted but needed to do that to level 30 was needed they decided to stop going "I wanna be Drizzt" about it.

[@cristoferpicado4059]

I just watched your video on "Don't Stop Thinking" where you are talking with CJ and it reminded me of this video which was one of the first I saw of yours. Anyhow...great interview and very insightful to how gaming is culturally different and the also the same as it is in America. I love videos like this...hearing about the cultural differences and all. In that video, you mentioned you are playing a game set in Eberron. What do you think about accents of the people in Khorvire?? For me, I think that Humans of the former kingdom of Galifar probably have various Eurocentric sounding accents like British, Slavic, French, etc. That said, for the Warforged being crafted by humans they all probably sound a bit like Korg from Thor Ragnarok....basically yeah...like the director, Taika Waititi. What is your take on this??

[@vindicareassassin271]

I think that warforged should/could get a unique curse. That only effects them. That could cause a lycanthropy like effect. A kin to a werewolf, but instead something like a steel predator. I know it's highly unlikely sense warforged are immune to diseases. But it is something to think about.

[@matthewbennett1972]

Had a character idea for these guys. Fighter unarmed specialist looks like an old timey boxer mustache and all. Athlete background champion sub type. Can be either a trainer or a gladiator I named mine PH1 T0R

[@jeffreylucier5266]

Awesome! Thanks A.J.!

[@AJPickett]

Most welcome!

[@TKFKU]

If this is what they have turned Warforged into, I will stick with the original version.

[@heisan70]

Nice vid. Could you do one on the Sarrukh please?

[@AJPickett]

Ooo old school, ok, putting it on the list, though there is limited information on them, and they are a race from ancient history on Faerun, so, not likely to be found in the contemporary setting.

[@themoofies]

Great video! subbing for sure!

[@AJPickett]

Thanks!

[@ps3lover85]

Are the warforged subraces in the eberron book? I cant find them

[@AJPickett]

I highly doubt they are (quick check of Rising from the Last War) no they are not. So you would need to look into 3.5 and 4th edition sources to find them. I am sure they are easy enough to convert through.

[@ps3lover85]

@@AJPickett thanks 👍i asked cuz i was making a dex warforged and when i made him i was like "darn i wish he had dark vision"

[@dropdead234]

3.5 Monster manual 3 or 4. Or, check the 3.5 SRD.

[@ryderma1]

Definitely saving that one. You're better that HBO, Dude. I wish I had the money to back that statement up. One day😁

[@3dagalathor]

can warforged become clerics?

[@AJPickett]

Yes, absolutely. Warforged are living beings, they have souls... where those souls come from is the real question.

[@3dagalathor]

alright, thank you for the quick reply

[@derrickhaggard]

Due to ordering a copy of Eberron: Rising from the Last War and geninuly interesting in doing/playing a campaign set in the Steampunk themed world and my main character choice/option is a Warforged Arcane Trickster Rouge. Yes I want to play as a robot ninja and my character inspiration is Marino from Megaman X: Command Mission.

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

I'm going to make a warforged whose Battle Cry is cogito ergo sum and his name will be AM

[@BoojumFed]

My inner philosophy-nerd anxiously awaits the inevitable shadow story of his adventures on my local cavern wall.

[@davidfletcher6703]

I'm wondering if a player character can become a Warforged by having their soul and consciousness transferred into an empty Warforged body

[@AJPickett]

sure.

[@davidfletcher6703]

@@AJPickett, I kinda thought so, that would be a good scenario for a character who has a terminal illness or someone whose body is battered beyond repair

[@DraganzordPrime]

3.5 edition Warforged were more hard core and machine like. 5e version is watered down, every race feels the same.

[@GearGearRingLeader]

To streamline things to make DND more accessable new people and to lessen the over all power gap in terms of different Race/Class combinations. I like 3.5 as well but if it was the only version then a lot of people would have trouble getting into DND.

[@thedm8873]

So what would the stats be on a juggernaut warborn I'm trying to crate one PS. Loved the video

[@AJPickett]

www.reddit.com/r/DnDHomebrew/comments/42870b/warforged_juggernaut_prestige_class_5e_workshop/ may inspire you.

[@thedm8873]

thank you

[@purpleboye_]

Fabuloso.

[@AJPickett]

Más bienvenidos!

[@eyeh8yootoob241]

Have a WF Cleric, "Goddless Killing Machine " is her name....

[@kurtderpinheimer3539]

I've always wondered where their consciousness/sentience and souls came from. Does the magic used to create them bring a soul into existence from nothing? If so, that has to be powerful stuff. If not, does it pull a soul from the aether or even a living being and just wipe it to a clean slate?

[@AJPickett]

Probably from the source, the symbols are True Names.

[@hysterical5408]

to be honest, I... may or may not have given the option to some of my warforged players to have their bodies modified to have certain...attributes. *wink wink, nudge nudge*

[@JeremySmith-ve2ur]

Hysterical I was gonna ask if there was a companion model or in other words a whoreforged.

[@stavzeevi]

The internet is nothing but reliable in these regards...

[@ddoublec936]

Ah you sexualized the war machines, rule 34 ig

[@bumblingbureaucrat6110]

Oh my goodness, why did you do this? Now all I can think of is putting a Warforge Sex Robot in my campaign.

[@Mare_Man]

@@ddoublec936 *no exceptions*

[@EmmanuelMalo]

Hey! So I was wondering if anyone knew where could I find info on Warforged on Faerun (official content), given the mentions of Lantan, Gontal and Thay, But I haven't been able to find anything In current or previous campagin settings.

[@elvenhair3]

Love the vid but hold the frick on. Did I just hear immunity to exhaustion? So... Juggernaut Warforged Frenzy Barbarian with near unlimited Frenzy Rage so long as they are getting hit or are hitting? Is that broken? Or would there be some sort of downside to thos particular combo?

[@zmishiymishi5349]

Cool, i thought they were eberron exclusevly. Never expected them to have so many possible origins

[@waynelemon3098]

Well done sir! All of your videos are great. Warforged creation process video?

[@mexicanLOUBForce]

...do they dream?

[@AJPickett]

Of electric sheep

[@kingmasterlord]

so, get a deathwand crossbow installed as an armbow, a ring of spell storing, and bring a stack of flail snail shells to that modron in Sigil that makes steel predators so he can install living stealth antimagic plate mail on you

[@andresmarrero8666]

I would think that the Shardmind have an old alliance with Warforge considering that they have ties to the Dawn War where some idiot decided to destroy the living interdimensional gate.

[@blackhawk3975]

What would happen to a warforged afflicted with some form of lycanthropy?

[@BoojumFed]

Depends if your world runs lycanthropy as more of a disease (which they are immune to) or a curse. And if it _is_ a curse, then will the lycanthropy you play with override their natural indifference to/ lack of hunger and immunity to unconsciousness to get you a more traditional " _I wake up naked in a field with no idea how I got there and the taste of blood in my mouth_ " lycanthrope; or will the curse keep running into walls where what it changes and alters are simply not there to work with. That may wind up with a 'Typhoid Mary'- type character who is unaffected by what they carry, but are still capable of passing it on to others who are. (I think I'll keep that little twist in my back pocket for potential use at my table, now that we've come up with it...) Personally, I'd probably simplify it all and say lycanthropy (curse or disease) needs a target from the animal kingdom to affect (something that _has_ an 'inner beast' to be released), so they're immune. The guys I play with would get _way_ too into the minutia of how it works for me to have answers prepped...

[@princekermit0]

I know this is late... but one answer occured during two eberon campaigns.. the first was a poorly worded wish spell a player cast. He was a warforged caster who wanted to become a lycanthrope but only during full moons. He didn't specify which one of the moons of Eberon. So I had the wish throw him back in time to when all of the moons were full, which was as the hight of the great war. And I gave him a new disease called the technovirus. Under a full moon he transforms into a construct version of a werewolf and has to make a DC 16, 17, 19 or 30 will save or mindlessly attack and maul other warforged. (the DC is effected by how many moons are full) And.... Eberon has 12 moons! This PC was later killed by the Lord Of Blades. The second player was a warforged who contracted the technovirus three decades after the last war. He was attacked by an unknown warforged under a night in which there were no full moons. It seems that the technovirus has mutated in the wilds. I call player characters and npcs with this condition "Were-forged".

[@Enixon869]

Beast Mode! *transformer sound effects*

[@cbo2864]

I prefer the 3.5 version that Keith created in the first place...

[@AJPickett]

Like I say, I am not an expert on Eberron.

[@derrickhaggard]

@@AJPickett I am. I've been reading up on Eberron and learning about it after I ordered my copy of Eberron: Rising from the Last War. Basically concerning the Warforged the king of the largest country on the continent of Khoravire died and he wrote in his will that his siblings were to see each other as allies that didn't happen as most of the siblings wanted the throne of the entire kingdom to themselves and did not take the oath of allegiance to the rightful heiress their sister who ruled the nation-state of Cyre and instigated a war with her and each other that destroyed the kingdom and lasted 100 years this was known as The Last Great War. Now where the Warforged gets involved is they were created by House Cannath one of the Dragonmark houses and was the house given the Mark of Creation and House Cannath served as weapon/armor-dealers during this war and pretty much sold weapons and armors to every nation involved including their home nation of Cyre. However the greatest achievement of House Cannath was the creation of the sentient robots made out of metal, stone, and wood known as the Warforged with the tech used to create the Warforged being based on tech recovered from Xen'drik and these were created for the sole purpose of serving as soldiers, scouts, spies, and assassins for the various nation-states that bought them during the war. However the war would come to a tragic end when the nation-state of Cyre was completely destroyed by what can only be described as a "magic nuke" resulting in it becoming a corpse-filled magical radiation scarred wasteland known as The Mourninglands this sudden catastrophic loss of innocent lives resulted in the remaining nations ending the war by writing and signing what is known as the Treaty of Thronehold, this not only ended the long war but also gave the Warforged their freedom as per treaty request House Cannath had to stop making new Warforged, along with the sentient robot race finally being declared people not possessions. However for the Warforged life on Khoravire would not be easy as due to being living remnants of a tragic war many many of the organic "races" wanted to forget resulted in unfair persecution, and illegal prejudice, and various other crimes including being forced into indentured servitude, and murder being committed against the Warforged with many individuals including Nolan a dwarf member of the Council of Sharn being strong advocates for the illegal hate crimes committed against the sentient robot race. However there is rumors that Marriex the grandson of the original Merrix Cannath has used the power of the Mark of Creation to break the rules set by the Treaty of Thronehold and started up one of the Creation Forges and is creating new Warforged in secret. But the most well-known recurring villain in Khoravire and probably the whole setting of Eberron is the rouge Warforged Artificer that is known as the Lord of Blades. Now the Lord of Blades' true identity is unknown with the main theory surrounding the Lords of Blades' identity being that the Lord of Blades' true identity being Bulwark a Warforged soldier who went crazy during the Last Great War after seeing many of his brothers, and sisters-in-arms die during this war. Now the Lord of Blades main base is in The Mourninglands this is due to the fact the Warforged have an innate immunity to the magical radiation in The Mourninglands and has set it up as a Warforged nation. Now it has been confirmed that the Lord of Blades has found a Creation Forge and is using it to grow his army by creating new Warforged, along with recruiting the Warforged sick and tired of the racism, and hate crimes that the "organic races" are committing against them with the Lord of Blades' primary goal being total domination of Khoravire and possibly all of Eberron using the notion of "freedom from the oppression, racism, and crimes committed against them by the organic races" as his method of insuring his followers loyalty even though he's shown that he is willing to go to any length to achieve his goal including murdering innocent Warforged who refuse to follow him.

[@ravenRedwake]

8:23 is that a Dragonborn head on a warforged body?

[@AJPickett]

Stylistic choices, I mean, if I were a Warforged I would absolutely customize my appearance to suit my emergent personality and affiliation with my adopted culture.

[@dakotastein9499]

my warforged character Lobo has an interesting backstory if anyone cares to listen: Lobo was not always a warforged,infact many MANY centuries ago he was an Eladragon or often known as a "Dragon elf" (race created by me) and was a powerfull wizard and alchemist in his day,untill a great calamity struck that drove the Anciant Dragon elves to extinction,however Dremmer (his original name) had one failsafe up his sleeve,when his body was consumed and destroyed his soul entered a blank construct body for almost 1000 years he was put in a dormant sleep until he eventualy awoke,however there was one problem,he awoke a stranger to himself not remembering who he was or how he came to be and had nothing but a blank formula book and a mace.he adopted the name Lobo and began his journey across the world to regain his memories of who and what he is and rediscover his purpose in life...Lobo believes the secret to his past lies in the power and pursuit of Alchemy. he combines his construct nature and strengths with that of his alchemy to alter his metal plating and costruct body,and will even build a clockwork cannon to fire his more destructive potions like powerful projectiles of liquid bombs. he knows little about this strange new world,and none can answer his questions as they know nothing of his kind,as my character has the distinct roleplaying honer of being the only known Warforged in existance in my friend's setting.

[@That80sGuy1972]

That is an EPIC background for an alien character in your friend's setting. Noice! (sorry, I love "noice" recently as it is a fun way to say "nice".)

[@dakotastein9499]

thank you,i take pride in establishing my characters...when i take the time to make a DnD character i need to share a creative bond with them so i go a little unorthatdox and overboard with making them. another interesting thing about Lobo,is how he utilizes and uses summon monster (elemental) he (when possible) will summon an elemental from another plane,not for combat,but whilst resting as he will converse with them and establish trade with them,and enter perminant contracts for various uses. in the last game which i used him it got to this point: in one game,when i reached a high enough level i summoned four greater elementals (one of each type) and entered perminant contracts with them. the water elemental would summon pureified water for our party when needed,or would dive down into deep bodies of water to retreive things. and sell me magical items from its realm the earth elemental would trade me precious jewls and metals and magical clay in exchange for riches from the material realm and favors.(he even taught me a more powerful version of "Shape stone") the Fire elemental was my "demolition and pyrotechnics" assistant. who would destroy obsticals on my command,and sell me "bottled magma" and other ignious magical items. the Air elemental (whom i established the most fevorable relationship with) would summon more air elementals to serve as our parties eyes and ears over many miles...if a rumer of interest surfaced,a danger was spotted or the location of a magical item of interest was found,he would come to me and tell me...with the west wind on my side,i was rarely caught off guard. my direct fighting abilities were so-so when compared to others in our party,but my use as support,versatility and utilitiy made me an irreplaceable asset to our party as i kept us very well in money and suplies ( having contacts with other planes,i made a name for my self as a very saught out trader) these resorces combined with my potent skills as an artificer and alchemist made me capable of doing some pretty incredible things earning us huge amounts of gold for my services woops,there i go rambling lol

[@bdobdnoble5750]

Dakota Stein cool character

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Nice character buddy!

[@jamesforgie6594]

This sounds wonderful! I can just imagine people coming from far and wide to see/buy from the peculiar creature made of metal who knows more than they should.

[@Onyx_Primal646]

Quick question, is there a way for a for a regular War Forge to transform? Even if it's via a spell?)

[@Onyx_Primal646]

Nevermore, just looked below

[@gilgamsht4684]

could you do a video on lolth??

[@AJPickett]

Yes, she is on the list.

[@GuardianSage]

Everything that I've been able to find says that Warforged are classified as humanoid instead of as constructs. As such, I was wondering what your thoughts are about a Warforged half dragon?

[@AJPickett]

Not in this dimension.

[@trajanfidelis1532]

Can war forged be warlocks?

[@AJPickett]

Yes they can.

[@rafaelcotero3528]

So they are based on the Hebrew legends if the Golem? From what I remember that they have to draw on there heads the Hebrew word for truth, or something like that.

[@eliirrii]

someone is going to name their warforge Ultron, I bet.

[@raeesmohammed6080]

Is it just me or are all the links in the description broken?

[@michaeltaylor788]

I wonder what kind of man… I mean person made this warforged 1:59 😂.

[@mis.astrid2635]

WHat was that into Music? I eed it in my Life!

[@chriscarstens5226]

Thrane not Thay. Warforge are absolutely not from Toril. This mistake comes from forgotten realms wiki, that anybody can edit. Richard Lee Byers (author main man for Thay). Never once stated nor written about Warforges. Plus when you read up on them (Offical) its says Thrane. One thing about research, never use any type of Wiki

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

I make my plates from tarrasque scale or it's shell

[@elladanelvenblade4670]

I when i heard "thay" i thought you said fey...😂😂

[@dropdead234]

Thay it, don't Spray it. *Ducks chair.*

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Can.a warforged be a battle mage does that exist.like a warforge with a sword .who.Can.cast spells

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Leave a vid me link so we can watch there too

[@AJPickett]

Vid me is dead dude. long gone

[@dragonballtalk8527]

@@AJPickett nooooooooo

[@albireotheredguard1599]

I'd call my Warforged Megatron! 😄 All joking aside, would it be possible to create a Warforged out of crystal?

[@AJPickett]

Heh! Erm... well, that is kind of treading on the territory of the Shardmind race.. who knows, perhaps there is some Shardmind crystal in the head of every Warforged.. that would make an interesting twist.

[@KevShaw808]

@21:28 who is that character?

[@AKNeal81]

Fulgore from Killer Instinct anyone?

[@Deathwalker01st]

:-)

[@DezNutz892]

soooooooo do Warforged poop?

[@AJPickett]

Yep, once a month, just a little handful of pebbles. Like tic tacs or M&Ms

[@DezNutz892]

@@AJPickett i picture a pile of screws and washers

[@chrissoto7187]

Can you sleep with one? My character is trying to bang everything in the world and me and the DM aren’t sure

[@noeltorres9175]

😱🤖