Keith Baker (creator of Eberron) Q & A thread

[I'm A Banana]

Now imagine the warforged swimming...

Dude, who needs to swim?..swimming's for those pansies who need to breathe. I'll just walk under the water for a while, I'll hit shore eventually. You guys take the ship to Xen'drik, I'll walk.

And asides, they're not any worse at that then anybody else wearing armor.

Hmmm...maybe I should start a Tactics thread for how someone would go about defeating a stronghold full of Warforged...see if they're any harder to weed out than Elves.

 

[Gez]

Now imagine the warforged swimming...

They don't need to breath...

Barbossa: "Gents, take a walk."
Jack: "Not to the boats?"

 

[Flyspeck23]

Depending on the lake, the warforged might well need climb to get out

 

[WanderingMonster]

I suppose a balsa/aluminum warforged wouldn't take off.

 

[Hellcow]

My question is: WOTC and TSR before it have cross marketed their properties since the 80's. Computer and video games, novels, etc.. Did this play in factor in your choosing and creating non rules elements (fluff) of Eberron?

Sure. Knowing that they wanted a setting that could have the scope of FR, it seemed logical to assume that they would want to expand into novels, computer games, or even CCGs (not something that's being planned, to the best of my knowledge). So certainly, in writing up the basic idea, I had in the back of my mind that it should be able to support each of those. The Last War creates tension and tragedy that has a lot of novel applications (as shown by the War Torn series they're developing), but also sets up tensions that can be used for skirmish miniature battles or computer games. To be honest, I was surprised that the RTS wasn't set during the Last War -- though with that said, I worked with Atari and Liquid on the story for the RTS and I'm quite pleased with it.

But yes, it is something I kept in mind when developing the world. However, it's not like I said "Oh, I'm going to throw out this idea I like because it would screw with RTS potential" -- it was simply a matter of making sure the world could support the different options.

 

[Gez]

Depending on the lake, the warforged might well need climb to get out

Which makes me think -- is there any rule giving you a circumstance bonus relative to your volume when climbing under water? Because Archimedes would be pushing you...

 

[ironmani]

Thanks for the quick answer again kieth! You said that the Warforged are effected by repel wood would it be safe to assume that spells such as antiplant shell and warp wood would also have an effect? Also would warp wood cause hit point damage to a Warforged since it is in effect twisting the wooden skeleton out of shape? It seems to me that a properly prepared Druid could wreak havoc on a Warforged.

 

[GrayIguana]

Sorry, just wanted to add my two cents, as a major in medieval history:

Forgive me for jumping ahead and repsonding to this post. I normally try to read an entire thread before responding, but I have to agree strongly with this. I majored in history as well (Ancient History focus). Populations were extremely small. There were some impressive populations in Rome, but still the average city did not have these huge populations to draw from. So it is nice to hear that the populations are less dense in Eberron.

My question is in regards to PrC classes (and again I apologize if this has been asked). I don't have the book yet (yet being the operative word). From the reviews I have read there is a PrC for most races. Is there a unique PrC to be come the ultimate changling?

 

[Caliban]

Thanks for the quick answer again kieth! You said that the Warforged are effected by repel wood would it be safe to assume that spells such as antiplant shell and warp wood would also have an effect? Also would warp wood cause hit point damage to a Warforged since it is in effect twisting the wooden skeleton out of shape? It seems to me that a properly prepared Druid could wreak havoc on a Warforged.

They aren't affected by warp wood because they aren't objects. Both repel wood and repel metal and stone affect warforged, as do chill metal and heat metal. This is covered under the warfarged racial information.

I don't believe they would be affected by antiplant shell, because they aren't actually plants.

 

[Tarril Wolfeye]

Is there a unique PrC to become the ultimate changeling?

Alas, No. In fact, changelings are the only race in Eberron that got nothing. The PH races got their dragonmarks, shifter and warforged got PrCs, kalashtar got some nice background and the whole XPH.
Apart from the race chapter, the rogue example character and the racial statistics in some lands, changelings don't even seem to exist.