D&D 5E Idea for Warforged Racial Trait

[Cap'n Kobold]

That is... a really interesting take. It would have the impact of reducing the power/draw of the Dex based characters. The one issue I see is that you would see a lot of warforged with a preference for light armor, which thematically doesn't make much sense from my perspective.

I don't think that it would push most warforged into light armour-based classes. Most light-armour wearers will start with a dex bonus higher than +2, and games very rarely get to the point where the proficiency bonus is going to be higher than dex.

You will get higher level warforged wearing less armour as their own plating develops to be better and better, but I can see it encouraging heavier-armour wearing actual classes, because they tend to have less of a use for dex in other aspects of the class.

 

[Staccat0]

That is... a really interesting take. It would have the impact of reducing the power/draw of the Dex based characters. The one issue I see is that you would see a lot of warforged with a preference for light armor, which thematically doesn't make much sense from my perspective.

Maybe or maybe not. In 5e, money is usually not a big deal but even assuming players had a lot of wealth I don't see a ton of players (in my games) wearing something heavier than half-plate at level 4. On the other hand, Warforged Barbarian and Monk builds could be pretty interesting.

At higher levels you might see less Warforged fighters benefitting from their racial bonus at all, but with bounded accuracy and stuff I just don't know if that is good or bad without seeing it.

It just seems like it would open up some unique characters who can treat DEX as a lower priority.