Brilliant Energy weapon and Warforged

[StreamOfTheSky]

Or treat the armor plating as armor, like it was intended and the warforged as living creatures, like it was intended and leave them just as well/bad off against a BE weapon as any other player in armor. But gods forbid if we don't treat the warforged as special little snowflakes at every opportunity!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

But gods forbid if we don't treat the warforged as special little snowflakes at every opportunity!

Hmmm...

If Warforged were snowflakes, I'd hate to see the storm system that dropped them.

"Aieeeee! Shuriken falling from the sky!"

 

[kevin_video]

Personally I'd treat them the same way for Brilliant Energy as you would with sneak attack. There's a 25% chance that it might not affect them. As well, if they take the Improved Fortification, esentially making them true constructs because they can no longer be flanked or sneak attacked, I'd say that they're immune.

 

[Jhaelen]

Or treat the armor plating as armor, like it was intended and the warforged as living creatures, like it was intended and leave them just as well/bad off against a BE weapon as any other player in armor.

This gets my vote. They introduced the living construct subtype precisely because they didn't want warforged to be immune against everything constructs are immune against. If in doubt they aren't immune.

 

[Naxas]

"warforged are constructs with the living construct subtype"
a briliant energy weapon cannot harm a construct, but the type was changed from construct with living construct subtype to dragon with living construct subtype so it works just fine and should ignore the armor plating as it is still non-living material

 

[frankthedm]

Not a fan of the BE enchantment. An expensive mod to get a random, but sometimes huge bonus to hit in exchange for the chance the weapon won’t get any bonus or often won’t do anything at all, just does not sit well with me.

An awesome glowing weapon that is less dangerous to the undead than a NERF^TM foam bat is something that should have been sent back to the drawing board. Or in modern parlance “EPIC FAIL”

A warforged is living. That makes the interpretation of this rule rather vague.

I'd have to disagree it is that vague. As you point out, Warforged are living. They don't get ignored. The BE weapon still goes through Armor and shield bonuses to AC. If someone tries to argue with the sentence that refers to 'type', you simply inform them that line was written before the introduction of the warforged's subtype, thus it is the prerogative of the DM to decide how those rules interact, especialy since none of the creature types listed in BE 'live'.

 

[Starbuck_II]

They should have allowed BE to be turned off like Flaming can be in case you fight undead.

 

[cru121]

According to Sage, warforged are affected by brilliant energy weapons:
Ask Wizards: 01/10/2007