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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vulcan_idic" data-source="post: 2694070" data-attributes="member: 19615">Well, it wouldn't fit with his backstory particularly well.  The warforged, who goes by the name I.U. 5924 because he found that marked on his arm with chalk when he attained consciousness, is an escapee from the garbage dump of Merrix d'Cannith's secret forge.  He was, or was at least thought to be, a failed prototype/experimental model trying to combine an Adamantium Body with a (what I now have a word for) Psiforged Body.  The experiment worked better than it was thought to and he actually gained consciousness and had some small psionic talent inborn (Hidden Talent:Catfall).  Character-wise I play him similar to a very early Data - he's very smart (Int:17) but unfamiliar with the world - he was only partly finished in the forge when they ejected him for being a failure (the I.U. in I.U. 5924 means Inoperative Unit).  Given his history remaking him into a straight Artificer would be problematic as it wouldn't really fit with his backstory.A straight artificer could work I suppose, but I haven't really been drawn to them.  I've never like making items myself, which seems to be their main schtick.  But that may be because I haven't really understood how to use them to their best advantage.  I remember after I read City of Towers by Keith Baker I really wanted to play one because the one in the novel seemed so cool...  but then I went to look at them and they didn't seem as fun.  What am I missing about them?</blockquote>

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