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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?
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.
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".
Eh, theyre literally just a blank canvas. Thats not a good thing. 'Oh you can do everything' just leaves people floundering and unsure
@@joelsasmad that sounds fucking cool he could be an oath of conquest Paladin
mine became a gentleman adventurer who wields their wit as much as they wield their rapier
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.
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
If your orks can believe hard enough and his gun stars to work, they are not orks there orkz
@@FrostCrispz if you elf drugged fucked a god of pleasure into existence, that isn't a elf, that is a eldar
If you have Daemons, that's Chaos. Pray to the Holy Emperor and the Omnissiah
Skin bandit moment.
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
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?
@@dragonfell5078 he fucked off to the celestial plane, throwing the cosmic bureaucracy into a scramble
that's a hell of a journey lmao
@@austinsetser6081 Based
Well that escalated quickly. One moment it's preaching random ideas the next it's creating a god. Damn.
babe wake up new runesmith eberron video just dropped
Let Spencer sleep
@@pastorTracy911 What if it’s Spencer waking Jacob? 😆
@@MandalorV7 They wake each-other up, it's caused by the sheer primal urge to watch the new runesmith eberron video.
@@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.
I have a request. Could you make another "try not to laugh at DnD memes" video?
I just played my first Warforged the other day. He's a Warforged (Juggernaut) Druid, and he's basically the Iron Giant. He woke up in the woods (in the Forgotten Realms) with no memories so he's just been straight vibin' for about a thousand years. After a few centuries of chillin' with nature and having plants grow on and into his body he became connected with the nature spirits and got druid powers. Then one day while tending to his little grove the nature spirits were like "hey, go over there." So he did, and proceeded to wander into the plot hook for the campaign.
"We have nukes now, good game." is such an amazing line.
‘Oh shit guys, I think we did war too hard’
that is how worldwar 2 ended.
@@sebastianadifferenttime5367 It was more like. "So there was one nuke. So what?"
Later.
"Oh wait there is more of them? Ok. GG."
The treaty of Versailles part two electric boogaloo
Warforged Artificer Armorer is by far the most fun I've had while playing DnD, playing it rn and it's a blast being able to modify your body to house all the spells/cantrips you can cast.
That's such a cool idea
I Have one I am playing and he's a con artist. He makes "magical" items to sell. He fast talking and everyone seems to be just very confused by the Warforged that act more organic. He's so much fun.
My warforged armorer was a boxer. They later created a sentient top hat and infused a pimp cane with booming blade.
With a shield equipped, he had 22 ac :0)
How does counterspell interact with these modifications?
@@JoschiChr counterspell only works on..spells that were Just Cast. ambient magic is immune.
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
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.
@@me-42by42 just...not too good at problem-solving at the start
So this reminds me of that picture of a hamster eating a banana except the banana is metal.
Aww. For better or worse, till death or unit shutdown do you part.
I admit, I skimmed this the first time I saw it and initially read "take orders" as "fake orgasms". I think it still tracks.
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.)
I love this character arc.
I like the idea of the "soulless robot killer" becoming a druid or cleric. Maybe even a celestial warlock. The character could be seeking answers about what a soul is or maybe the were a first generation soldier and are trying to atone for some possible war crimes. Who knows? :D
"I was born an empty husk. I lived my first ten years as a weapon, designed to remove life from the world. Killing was all I knew - so even after I gained my freedom, I kept killing. But no matter how much blood I spilled, I never stopped feeling empty. That's when I realized that violence could not scratch the itch in my soul. That epiphany led me to wander the earth in search for a true connection to the world - and I have found it. I have taken part in much destruction; it is time to create instead. Now, I want to help usher new life into the world. That may sound strange, coming from a weapon like me. Indeed, departing from my intended purpose is a strange feeling. But if I have the freedom to choose what kind of tool I am, then I choose to reforge myself: from a sword to a plowshare."
_-Memoir of Tinderscythe, Warforged Archdruid_
Both games I've played in that warforged PCs, both players ran warforged druids. Seems to be A Thing.
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)
Roger Roger!
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
That’s fair. It’s like if after WWII all the tanks gained sentience and created their own nation state
@@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
@@bradypermenter8761 "shoulda never smoked that shit. now I'm stuck in the _Sherman Tank Ethnostate"_
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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! 🤘😁
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.
@@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.
@@elrusito5034 well... I suppose that is something....
@@elrusito5034 why does this sound like a DND origin story for bender? Lmao
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.
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.
"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.
the older i get the more i think Magneto was right
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.
DnD Evil can quite handily described as "No qualms about harming/killing innocents"
Or, is he just making a country because the warforged don't have one.
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.
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.
@@joshwollet3637 sounds a lot like space marines.
@@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.
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?
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
In a game I’m playing I have a warforged hexblade doing the standard searching for emotions stuff. However he was created Data from Star Trek style and his created died and now he has a magic sword with a demon lord in it. Together they’re trying to free the demon from the sword and the demon has promised to give my character emotions
I smell a Faustian twist... I sure hope _"agonizing remorse"_ isn't considered an emotion! 🙃
So heres the Tale of my second ever character: "Legion", who was a warforged fighter, his backstory is tied heavily to the lore of a destroyed city in the very first campaign I played, where he used to be one of a dozen or so experimental Robots, the first of their kind, little robot worms with claws (I'm pretty sure they where actual enemies from the books) that dug tunnels for the ever expanding new pipe network (the city was said to be the most technologically advanced in the world which in fantasy world is basically coal engines and just discovering electricity, 17-1800's style) but uh oh BBEG destroys the place and the drones which where hastily programed to do battle days before in prep, and then 2 years later our party find this one destroyed thing and keep it, once my pc died I had an idea that our artificer would build this thing a new body to live in, which would be my pc.
He was fun till he got 1 shot by a rust monster because "he's made of metal" which I thought was a little cringe but the ruling stayed (she later regretted that call) but he was set to be revived, now here's the thing, his body was reduced to rusted dust, and revivify turned him into a Tiefling man, so I had to pull lore out of my ass to why his soul resurected as a tiefling, and why he had a soul to begin with.
This turned into a whole thing discovering the malicious nature of their creation back in those old crumbled city ruins, and also he became a paladin of the crown because despite having a body his programming sort of imprinted in his very being, making him retain some of the mannerism from before, including his undying devotion to the crown of Neferity (the city he was built/raised in) which he was programed to protect at all cost and now with the goal of rebuilding and restoring the city to its glorious origins, along with the whole "learning what life is" bit and falling in love, learning what food is, finding out he cant breath underwater, you know that sort of thing.
And that's basically Legion Galenthar-ral
As soon as I read the name "Legion", I thought this was going to be similar to the character from Mass Effect 2 of the same name. But you took it in a new and interesting direction, and I'm honestly impressed!
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. :(
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"
Now i must make a Warforged Moon Druid who is basically just a transformer. Thank you mr. Runesmith, very cool.
WAIT I LOVE THIS
MAXIMIZE
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... It disgusted me.
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
One of my best characters was a Warforged. He was over a century old, a veteran of an apocalyptic war and former servant of the bastard that caused it, he had major PTSD, his body was sloppily repaired and visibly ancient, and he was carrying a world-ending Infinity Stone in his chest.
He was fun.
That sounds remarkably like a PC in one of my games. He was really old, a veteran of an unending, continental war, and carried my world's equivalent of an infinity stone in a glorified oven mitt in his chest.
He died to a vine blight.
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.
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
3:45
Welp. Now ima make a ton of warforged characters so I can construct an entire farm of them and make a company named "SaltCliff Farm."
Their motto is, "Have you heard of good cheese? SaltCliff Farm's heard of it."
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
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”
@@andrewnewell1142 That actually made it click in a way I never thought of before, thanks!!
Glad you did include the last part. Namely they might live forever. A Warforged is based (At least in eberron), on these big war titans that were created thousands of years ago, and are still functioning. They're insane, but they still work. With the oldest warforged being 30 years old, no one is sure how long they'll live
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?
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.
This video is the personification of the Warforged Cleric I've been looking to play. Soul searching and understanding their connection to the divine when in actuality, their power [literally] comes from within. Due to programming block, the Warforged can't actually see the projectors and effects coming out from their body for the "divine intervention." You know, something like that.
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.
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!
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* ”
Gigachad Warforged: "I sell death and dismemberment, if you're good at something then you should be paid for your services."
@@beastwarsFTW Megachad Warforged: *Fortunate Son plays in the background*
@@tommyz6848 flips switch on chest labeled "Fortunate Son". Both sides of the switch read "on"
Even Chad warforged design TIME TO LOOK LIKE A GUNDAM
5:52 No, he’s just having fun in the scrap pit don’t worry about it
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)
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'
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
2:59 That's pretty much the driving motivation behind The Punisher in Garth Ennis' Max run
That last part is a giant mood. I've never had a DM allow a Warforged
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
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."
I have a Warforged Forge Cleric that wants to make weapons and armor and use them to help people. I like this race so much.
I’m currently playing a Warforged Forge Cleric. It is so cool to narrate his channel divinity because I say that he forged his hands into the tools he needs then turns them back.
@@joeedgar700 dude that's some awesome flavor. I have the Warding Bond spell that needs 2 platinum rings, so I was gonna ask my DM if I can buy some platinum or look for some. Then I was gonna bind the ring to my hand (like the armor)
Barbarian warforged because sometimes when your are a gentle iron giant, bad guys hurting your new friends makes you angry
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.
"with the fervor of a sleepless warrior you have chosen to forever churn butter"
note to self: do not drink during runesmith videos
_What is my purpose?_
"You churn butter."
_What? Oh my god._
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)
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!"
@@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)
5:26 In the last DnD campaign I played in (a veritable trainwreck and a miserable experience overall), one of the players in another game run by the same DM wanted to join into this one, playing a Warforged. But the DM being who he was, initially refused due to all of that. After a little bit of begging that I didn't end up seeing, the DM told me in private that he eventually decided to let that player have their Warforged, but only under...certain conditions. To put it simply, the DM said that the player could only play their Warforged as a no-shit, word for word, *"Nazi* Robot." Not literal Nazis, but owned by a cartel in his homebrew world, the Midnight Sun, who also took part in some Nazi-esque experiments in its past, but regardless, he said Nazi Robot or no Warforged at all. The Warforged wasn't allowed to do pretty much anything in the realm of RP other than take explicit orders from members and allies of the Midnight Sun, just being a battle bot with no personality or identity crisis. Little more than an NPC, but played by another player instead. That was the last session I participated in due to that being the straw that broke the camel's back.
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.
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.
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.
This is perfect timing. Im helping my friend make his first D&D character whos a warforged wizard
I played 3.5 Warforged and I loved him. I named the character peace a lawful good fighter who was a guard in a metropolis. Basically kinda like a medieval RoboCop.
You would think when your whole damn species is younger than the average Barrista, your first problem would be finding a cultural identity as a group. No ancestors. No history of myth and legend. Your past is almost nothing AS A PEOPLE without even a dad, grandpa, or uncle to look to for a role model or measure.
What do Warforged look to to feel real?
In a campaign I ran, I made them see modrons as angels and revered their purity of purpose. Golems were sad brothers in their eyes for their lack of intelligence and cared for them. They had a temple where the dead bodies of 3 inevitables were propped up and their religious scriptures were accounts of the last words said by a Marut misinterpreted.
"Gather resources, Build an army, Wait for orders.....(incomprehensible gibberish is the rest" and the warforged use that to build a country.
Gather Resources made them create trade roots.
Build an Army lead to homes and infrastructure (since 70% of any army is infrastructure).
And Wait For Orders ensured a lawful neutral peaceful existence with their neighbors.
Heck. They even have a religious need to strip parts from the dead to build new warforged. "This was your forebear. They were a warrior, but you are now free to be yourself in our city"
This works really well, actually, thanks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I love the name so much
@@Blind_Dragoon I stole it from Fun City, a Shadowrun podcast.
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.
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
I did not expect to see one of my friend's former D&D characters here. He played a Warforged fighter named Tos-Taar and he was literally part toast. We gave him toast projectiles that he could launch at people to deal fire damage.
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...
House Cannabis is now my Eberron head canon
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
pirates are just adventurers on the ocean. they rob, murder and rape then just roam elsewhere leaving destruction in their wake.
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).
I mean AC is only one way of threatening players, any good DM knows your saving throwes and what is your lowest one :)
@@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.
@@nLinggod And are awesome.
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
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)
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.
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
Our co-op DM campaign (basically the players take turns being DM after each mini-module we do) has one of our players as a Warforged. In our world, Warforged are rare as they were initially one of the means behind a long lost golden age in the land by a now long dead empire. They were all deactivated for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, and only a few have started to come back online with no memory of the past. It's a pretty interesting concept we're still peeling back the layers on as of writing this.
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!!
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.
The BBEG for my campaign is a Warforged Lich a-la Ultron who remade warforged bodies, but without the intelligence, so he can just transport his own if his body fails him. He's also turning ACTUAL people, like say, the bodies of a few dead pcs and npcs, into warforged bodies.
I like the idea of a Warforged Artificer who uses Homunculus Servants and is constantly building things and trying to reach the point of being able to build more Warforged. I imagine late in a campaign they are just a walking blob of magic items surrounded in prototype critters.
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.
I played a warforged fighter named Bagingi in a non Eberon setting and had a blast, the culmination of golem/construct making in a local guild stolen by orcs because he was shiny and not nailed down. Accidentally activated by an orc baby bagingi lived life as a plundering robot among orcs that eventually went on to do a campaign with a gnoll because he was the only one around the gnoll wouldnt eat
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)
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.
I have a artificer Warforged character named Beta, who had an identity crisis when he saw “his people” other Warforged who went mad in a cave. He then built a tower to house them and help them recover and that turned into a whole charity center. Tonight I just gave a speech at the grand opening and invited everyone to be more charitable because that’s the best way we can heal, rebuild ourselves and make the world a better place.
I remember making a warforged character. Never got to play him. I think they were originally an arena fighter but then just got REALLY motivated to learn about dinosaurs because to him they were a peak efficient design. Just imagine him getting excited like Thor when he saw Hulk but with. Like. A t rex.
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.
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!
One of my earliest characters for 5e was a Warforged Envoy (UA) Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer whose magic came from Dragon runes being carved into his body. That character never got used, but I do plan on recycling the concept at some point with the ERLW version of Warforged.
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.
I currently play a tabaxi artificer that is obsessed with the idea of becoming a warforged. He is on a journey to build his own warforged body and transfer his soul into it. He also cons people out of money for completely real magic items, they totall won't stop working as soon as he leaves town.
This is my favorite Race!!!!! I Have three that are my all time favorite characters I have ever played.
First is Forge The Warforge Cleric of the Forge. He is a giant of a robotic being that built for war an combat. When he was set free and could think for himself he wondered the lands looking something he couldn't explain. He came across a family and learned the art of forging and be came a cleric of the forge for the process is creation and what gave his kind life. He stayed with the family for a long time until they all passed away from old age and went out again. Now he was dedicated to making himself into a sword and shield for those that cannot protect themselves. He also secretly is very, very interested in organic culture really wishing that he was more like them. He also kept his factory activation code for combat, unless it is activated he cannot harm anyone.
The Next is Trusty Old Scrap. He's an Artificer armorer and a con artist. He likes to make "magical" items and sell them to people. He's fast talking and always has a sales pitch. He loves money and looks at adventuring as shopping without paying for the products he "picks up". However due to some bad business deals his creator had made he's in a lot of debt so he's trying to get out of it, buy out his company and go straight.
The lastly Norm Al Man, a gunslinger that was at one point human. He was captured, tortured, and then put in the warforged body as a mindless killing machine. however he somehow get free and became his own person, a paranoid conspiracy nut that thinks lawn gnomes are evil and the lizardfolk are after moon cheese. However as the game went one he started to learn more and more who he was and what that means for him. It's not helped with the fact that he's already crazy and it's just like pouring more gas on the fire.
Unlike other races I feel there's just so much more you can do with this race than any other. I have way more Warforged characters, but these three are by far my favorites.
I love Norm Al Man. I hope he has a good day
@@Blind_Dragoon He did not. He found out he kind a killed his whole family and that it happened 300 years ago. Again finding out what happened did not help with his metal health. But he found a cheap Santa beard to hid his identity, so There's that. LOL
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.
i love warforged naming conventions, they never had names, and never needed them, the never had to talk to anyone on the battlefield, so some of them took their number as their name, others simply chose a name at random from another object "you ask what is my name? well i could be called shoe if you prefer, just like your shoes" they can be called anything, flower, sword, six, twenty one, sky, grass, thomas, dumb, smart, strong, anything fits as a warforged name
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.
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?_
@@Drekromancer You are the first person who hasn't told me that this is an abysmal idea that disrespects the lore! Thank you!
I actually have an idea for an unusual Warforged PC that I'm planning for in an upcoming campaign.
Instead of bulky brawn, they are spindly and clumsy. Instead of raw iron might, they cast spells. However, because of some "faulty wiring," they only cast Wild Magic, making them a Wild Mage Sorcerer.
Their backstory (by far) is that they activated with much of their memory corrupted. They couldn't even remember their name, so they picked a random object and named themselves after it. "Spigot."
For the campaign, Spigot's goal is going to be recovering their lost memories, learn what their original purpose was, and figure out how to move forward.
I do have a plan for their original purpose, but I'm keeping that secret with the DM.
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.
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.
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.
"With the fervor of a sleepless warrior you have chosen to forever churn butter." Is simply the best narration of a background I've ever heard