Do you like Warforged in your Forgotten Realms?

[Blackrat]

Don't really like the idea of them becoming a common race but I had one warforged PC in my Realms campaign once. He was a prototype by a mad gnome. And as we have been told, they probably wont become part of the realms.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

I like warforged, and think they are one of the most interesting races WotC has come up with; however, I don't think they fit FR except, possibly, as near-unique creations of weird magicians or something found "deactivated" in the ruins of some Netherese or Raumathari laboratory.

So, I voted for no warforged.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I voted against.

Warforged have strong flavor but it's strong restrictive flavor. They have a place in Eberron, not in FR.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Warforged appeared in MM3. They are a generic D&D race, not limited to one setting.

 

[Dragonbait]

I like the 'forge and I have the Grand History of the Realms. I don't mind them in FR in very small numbers. I may not allow someone to play one in FR without some serious enticements.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

As shock troops purchased from Eberron by Thayan spelljammers, which the Red Wizards desperately want to reverse-engineer? Yes.

As home-grown FR natives? No.

Orcs aren't native to Krynn. Warforged aren't native to Abeir-Toril. Draconians aren't native to Eberron. Mixing and matching just reduces the specialness of each individual setting.

 

[Lord Zack]

I see Warforged as easily fitting into the Forgotten Realms. They could be creations of the gnomes of Lantan. They could've been created by the people of Ancient Netheril. A Wizard or Artificer (which I also feel fits in FR) could've created some, ect.

 

[Desdichado]

As shock troops purchased from Eberron by Thayan spelljammers, which the Red Wizards desperately want to reverse-engineer? Yes.

As home-grown FR natives? No.

Orcs aren't native to Krynn. Warforged aren't native to Abeir-Toril. Draconians aren't native to Eberron. Mixing and matching just reduces the specialness of each individual setting.

Well, arguably, that is the specialness of FR---how it loots other settings for anything vaguely interesting and adds them to itself.

Honestly, though, I see Warforged as something that could very easily and naturally find multiple homes in FR. As a Red Wizard invention, as an ancient Netheril invention recently rediscovered (not too unlike their place in Eberron in that case), as immigrants through one of FR's many portals that have now become native, etc.

What's so Eberron specific about the Warforged that they can only fit there? I'm not seeing [smallcaps]Eberron[/smallcaps] stamped in big letters on the warforged concept here. I think just about any D&D setting that follows the core rules as a baseline could accomodate warforged. It's only a small step from golems, shield guardians or even inevitables to get to the warforged after all.

 

[Mortellan]

*Cackles*

I'm unsure where to vote on this topic. I'm inclined to say if Baker denies it, then it'll be true eventually.

 

[Treacherous_B]

Am I the only one who thinks the Warforged are kinda lame in general? I hear a lot of love for them, but I'm just not sold on 'em myself.