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<blockquote data-quote="Quickbeam" data-source="post: 1839854" data-attributes="member: 635">One of my two gaming groups is about to embark on its first Eberron adventure and I found myself creating a warforged character for the campaign.&nbsp; As I read through the descriptive material on warforged, I began to sense that this race was a bit underpowered.&nbsp; Forget the two negative attribute scores, because plenty of other races have this same handicap.&nbsp; I was referring more to the racial abilities...or in this case, deficiencies.&nbsp; I understand that warforged are no longer entirely constructs, nor are they flesh and blood.&nbsp; But IMHO there seem to be a variety of benefits they are precluded from receiving with little provided to offset these losses on the plus side of the equation.&nbsp; For instance, why don't they have darkvision -- a minor, yet completely reasonable racial ability to be sure?&nbsp; I have other questions along these lines, but I'm sure you get the point.Forgive me if there have already been 1,001 discussion threads on this topic, but I wanted some feedback on other player/DM experiences with warforged.&nbsp; I love the race despite what I perceive to be its shortcomings, but feel the game designers may have given the warforged short shrift on racial abilities because the very concept of playing such a PC would be enticement enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickbeam, post: 1839854, member: 635"] One of my two gaming groups is about to embark on its first Eberron adventure and I found myself creating a warforged character for the campaign. As I read through the descriptive material on warforged, I began to sense that this race was a bit underpowered. Forget the two negative attribute scores, because plenty of other races have this same handicap. I was referring more to the racial abilities...or in this case, deficiencies. I understand that warforged are no longer entirely constructs, nor are they flesh and blood. But IMHO there seem to be a variety of benefits they are precluded from receiving with little provided to offset these losses on the plus side of the equation. For instance, why don't they have darkvision -- a minor, yet completely reasonable racial ability to be sure? I have other questions along these lines, but I'm sure you get the point. Forgive me if there have already been 1,001 discussion threads on this topic, but I wanted some feedback on other player/DM experiences with warforged. I love the race despite what I perceive to be its shortcomings, but feel the game designers may have given the warforged short shrift on racial abilities because the very concept of playing such a PC would be enticement enough. [/QUOTE]

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