i didn't even mean you or anyone else specifically, but there seems to be this surprisingly strong pervasive belief that warforged ought to stay in ebberon, despite the fact that they are DnD's very iconic manifestation of a highly popular archetype, i think it's actually a shame they're so tied up in the lore of ebberon because if they weren't i think they'd be a far more familiar sight and be a popular choice of species.
I guess alot of the significance passes me by due to me being too young at the time and not knowing about DND when those generations were happening.
Turtles can't be sad in pulp gothic ironic hell?
Yeah, that's my point: Ravenloft is also no way serious. My introduction was a story about a dude that turns into a cat man. There's multiple full throated zombie apocalypse pastiches. The world is literally run by nebulous Dark Forces that enforce Ironic Hell. And it thought it was real funny with the entire existence of the Vistani. It is a Gothic Horror Theme Park Ride and that's the fun part.
Oh I can definitely appreciate curation for theme and identity, I definitely understand that much, but what I originally meant was more how, warforged kind of get stuck as ebberon’s as this “this is the token dedicated ‘science fantasy setting’ quarantine” mindset, like, people just seem to resist more letting the robot people set foot in any traditional fantasy setting when alot of those other species seem to of permeated the general setting sphere easily enough while warforged...haven’t.
Like psionic brain eating mini-cthulus who tool around in space ships, visiting from the end of time and seem to be contractually obligated to appear in every adventure?
