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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hamburger Mary" data-source="post: 1595627" data-attributes="member: 17363">Good point -- though I think this was added in after the Dragon article, right? In any case, it does mean that the warforged is immune to many things that fleshy folks can ignore, but has vulnerabilities they do not. A few observations from running a campaign with a warforged character in it:* No natural healing? No big deal. 50% benefit from cure spells? BIG deal. Until we added an artificer to the group, the warforged was a serious cure-vacuum, even with his adamantine plating. * You're making a permanent sacrifice for something that provides you with a temporary edge. You *must* decide at first level whether you're taking that adamantine body or not. You sacrifice a feat forever to do it. Yes, for a few levels you are the bad ass. But eventually, the dwarf fighter gets his own suit of adamantine full plate -- now you're even on the AC front, and he's got one more feat than you do. Then, you discover the supercool major artifact plate mail -- and guess who's going to be wearing it? Hint: not you. With that said, warforged can *be* enchanted. So you can get slick or silent moves. But you have to convince your artificer pal to help you out with it, and you'll never be able to just find a super-cool suit of armor in the dungeon.  * No sleep = designated watchdog. This says nothing good or bad about the race, just an observation -- now they have a warforged in the group, everyone else gets 8 hours of sleep each night. * Social stigma. This is purely up to use as a DM, but I certainly play up the element that many do not consider the warforged to be the equals of humans, that many do not trust them or expect them to be intelligent. In this sense, warforged are the half-orcs of Eberron (given that half-orcs don't have as much of a stigma). So far, I haven't found the warforged to be overpowered compared to the other characters in the party... Just my 2 coppers.</blockquote>

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