D&D 5E Help me Balance my Homebrew Warforged!

[Cameron Barry]

Revised based on feedback.
Warforged
Ability: Score Increase All Warforged gain +2 to Constitution.
Speed: 30 feet.
Construct: You are immune to non-magical poisons, the poisoned condition, and diseases, and the paralyzed condition and exhaustion. You cannot be polymorphed.
Wood and Metal:Magical healing restores half the normal number of hit points to you, even if it would normally not affect constructs. You do not make death saving throws on your turn, but may accrue failures by being damaged.
Mutable Form: You may embed Warforged components, including installed weapons, armor, tools, magic items, and other devices (items work in progress)
Subrace Choose Soldier or Scout.
Unsleeping: You do not sleep. Instead, you must perform maintenance on yourself for 4 hours of a long rest to gain the benefits. You are aware of surroundings during this period, which is interrupted by strenuous action.
Solider
Ability Score Increase: Soldier Warforged gain +1 to Strength.
Built to Last: When you would drop to 0 hit points, remain at one instead. Regain ability to do so by taking a long rest.
Scout
Ability Score Increase: Scout Warforged gain +1 to Dexterity.
Small Size: You are a small creature. Your speed is 25 feet.
Recon: You may use a bonus action on your turn to take the Search action. You have proficiency in Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks.

 

[mellored]

Seems close enough.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Three thoughts:

Wood and Metal: I do not understand this, the way it is written. It's clear you have an idea, but the intention behind the second half of each of the two sentences is not coming through.

Mutable form. What's a component?

The Scout Recon ability is quite powerful, and is a slightly weakened version of the Rogue's cunning action, which is a key ability. The effect of this will be that there will be fewer scout rogues. (The same is true of goblins in Volo's; because they all have an ability that echoes Cunning action, it's more interesting to make a fighter goblin, or a sorcerer goblin, than a rogue goblin. I see that as a weakness.) Perhaps consider something else (and do we really need another race with a dex bonus?): perhaps +1 Wis, and additionally advantage on investigation checks. or something.

(Also, specify the speed of the scout, since so many small races are 25') Hope this helps.

 

[Kobold Stew]

p.s. welcome to the boards!

 

[Xeviat]

I second about the Scout ability. Rather than remove it, I recommend giving them an ability that highly favors the rogue. For instance, the hill dwarf gets +2 Str and Medium armor. Classes that want the medium armor don't need the Str; classes that want the Str already have the medium armor.

I'm not sure what the ability could be, but something.


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[Cap'n Kobold]

The wording seems to imply that you are considered a Construct, rather than a Humanoid or 'Living Construct'. This changes the way a lot of things interact if that is actually the case.

How are you defining "magical healing"?

The immunities granted are rather powerful. You might want to either throw in an alternative effect of exhaustion in, for example. As it is written, Warforged would be rather broken as berserker barbarians for a start.