Keith Baker (creator of Eberron) Q & A thread

[fredramsey]

Bump

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Keith is currently catching up on some work and recovering from his birthday yesterday folks. He'll get back to answering questions soon!

 

[Staffan]

But a Warforged Fighter and a Dwarven Fighter...the choice seems goofily obvious. One gets tired, gets level drained, gets poisoned, the other doesn't.

Though the dwarf does have a few advantages over the warforged. The most notable is a net +3 to saves vs. mind-affecting spells (+1 due to the warforged having -2 to Wis, and +2 because of the dwarven save bonus), something which is traditionally the fighter/barbarian's achilles heel.

 

[Destil]

At 1st level the dwarf takes Weapon Focus: Dwarf War Axe
The Warforged takes one of the armor feats.
The dwarf has +1 to hit and +1 damage (d8 vs d10 damage) vs. the warforged if using similar weapons.

 

[I'm A Banana]

We got a thread for Dwarf vs. Warforged now.

Leave this one to the Q&A.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR KEITH!

 

[fredramsey]

bump

 

[Vaxalon]

Since when does a 14-page thread need a bump?

 

[Ozmar]

The only time this is really going to change is if you have an all-warforged party going into the pits of disease, poison and level-draining undead. And really - who's going to do that?

Me! If I'm going into pits of disease, poison and level-draining undead, then I want to play a warforged. And I'd like my whole party to be warforged barbarians and artificers, please.

Hmmm... that's an interesting thought. Warforged seem to really undermine the traditional party balance, no? Typically you want to have a fighter, cleric, rogue and wizard to cover all the bases. But I think that a party composed entirely of warforged artificers could cover the same bases: They are reasonably tough and can fight, they can heal themselves, they can access all the arcane spells as needed, and they can disable traps and pick locks. What more do they need?

Later!
Ozmar the Independent

 

[buzz]

Okay, I was reading the Reserach feat last night.

How does research work for PCs who don't have the feat? I would assume that wizardly types have been doing research long before the feat got invented.

 

[nute]

But I think that a party composed entirely of warforged artificers could cover the same bases: ...What more do they need?

Someone with GOOD hit points, who can actually fight? It'd be like having a party of all bards - you can do everything, but nothing very well.