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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 3440035" data-attributes="member: 19857">Sure, if you want to just use the folklore version golems aren't very golem-like.  Nor are kobolds very kobold-like, goblins aren't very goblin-like, and a lot of other D&D creatures don't fit the mold of their folklore models.  (As an example, other than in Ravenloft I've never had a golem turn on its creator in a D&D session).I think of warforged more like the iron golem character in the old "Forgotten Realms" comic book that DC put out oh-so long ago.  The golem had a human soul trapped within it, and so it isn't quite the same, but the personality of a warforged isn't really that of an "AI" either, but more of a living creature than something artificial (hence the "living construct" monniker that they created for Eberron and has been cropping up elsewhere ever since).And if you're running Tolkein/Howard inspired D&D fantasy, then not liking "warforged" or other non-traditional non-human types is fine - that's how you like your game, good enough.  But as much as I like the Tolkein/Howard inspired D&D stereotypical D&D fantasy flavor, I often want something different.  And Eberron is different enough to be a fun fantasy setting without being so different that I feel that I might as well be playing something other than D&D.</blockquote>