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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 7857272" data-attributes="member: 15582">I'm not surprised. Warforged seem to be one of those concepts that really make some DMs nervous and thus the more mechanically weaker the better - they hope. Just last week, I chatted with a fellow who despised 3.5 warforged for deactivating instead of dying. He felt that "taking the fear of dying away" undid any "tension" (I think he meant suspense) from combat. I tried to explain how there's not much difference if a warforged's pal can't bring the body parts home. (Also nothing says, "Run!" like a new monster that rips into the Warforged fighter, and then there's the fun of watching PCs scramble to pick up most of the pieces before GTFOing.) I'm sure he's much happier with the new rules.Just a month ago, I bumped into a guy who hated guns in D&D with a fiery passion. Then hearing his tale of woe, his BEG being one-shotted by a gun, I realized he was talking about an AD&D game. Thus all guns, forever, shall never be in his D&D.To round out the list, I think you could put psionics in there too. (Drow PCs dropped off this list ages ago -- mostly because lots of today's GM used to run Drow PCs.)Yep. I'd say the list is Guns, Psionics and Warforged in that order. These three will always have nervous armchair theorist, over thinking and over nerfing more out of the fear that such things will ruin their games because they can't say "no" to a player. OTOH, lots of players are really pushy.One GM I knew, handled such things oddly. He said if he had to have one "new" thing that wasn't bog standard D&D, he'd have to admit all things from the setting into his game. Thus I couldn't have a Shifter, even when there was a sidebar for explaining where they could come from in a non-Eberron world -- because he didn't like airships?!?</blockquote>

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