Races of Eberron *Update - Couple of folks have it - Ask questions here*

[Hand of Evil]

I had heard that there was a feat that allowed Warforged to become Druids. Since Druids can't wear metal armor and, well, the Warforged is almost all metal, I don't see how a Warforged could be a Druid. This is probably a feat that changes the metal to wood so you can become a Druid.

Standard Warforged can be druid, they just can not take feats like Adamantine Body, see page 50 of ECS and Mithral Body page 57 of ECS.

 

[Darkness]

I heard that there are two new domains in RoE. Can you provide me with as much details as possible?

Okay.

Domains:

Transformation
Deities: No deity grants access to the Transformation domain but creatures with the shapechanger subtype (e.g., changeling, shifter) can take it if they don't worship a specific deity.
Granted Power: +1 caster level for Transmutation spells.
Domain spells: enlarge person, alter self, gaseous form, involuntary shapeshifting (new - also a Sor/Wiz5 spell), polymorph, baleful polymorph, doppelganger transformation (new - exclusive to this domain), polymorph any object, shapechange.

Truth
Deities: Church of the Silver Flame, the Path of Light
Granted Power: Bonus on Sense Motive equal to Cleric level, +1 caster level for Divination spells.
Domain spells: detect thoughts, zone of truth, see invisibility, discern lies, true seeing, force shapechange (new - exclusive to this domain), illusion purge (new - also a Clr8, Sor/Wiz8 spell), discern location, mass true seeing (new - exclusive to this domain).

What does Ironwood Body exatly do?

+3 armor (instead of +2), DR 2/slashing. On the downside, you also get a Max Dex, armor check penalty, and a higher than normal arcane spell failure chance. You're also considered wearing light armor, which is problematic for monks (but explicitly not for druids).

 

[reveal]

+3 armor (instead of +2), DR 2/slashing. On the downside, you also get a Max Dex, armor check penalty, and a higher than normal arcane spell failure chance. You're also considered wearing light armor, which is problematic for monks (but explicitly not for druids).

So, apparently, they decided to create a feat specifically for those who wanted a better AC as a Warforged Druid.

I can't wait to get this book tomorrow.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any of those feats changeling-specific? In a lot of ways, I think they're the most interesting Eberron race, but it looks like the designers might not agree with me.

 

[Darkness]

Any of those feats changeling-specific? In a lot of ways, I think they're the most interesting Eberron race, but it looks like the designers might not agree with me.

Persona Immersion, Quick Change, Racial Emulation. Also, the Disturbing Visage tactical feat.

Further, Mutable Body requires you to be a Shapechanger.

Master Linguist, while not race-specific, is pretty handy too and changelings have an easy time fulfilling the prereqs (i.e., speak 4 languages).

And I like changelings very much too. One of my players likes them even more (more than the other 3 Eberron-specific PC races, even).

 

[Darkness]

So, apparently, they decided to create a feat specifically for those who wanted a better AC as a Warforged Druid.

I can't wait to get this book tomorrow.

By the way, it also has another benefit. That is, if you have this feat, you have the option to get +2 DR/slashing, rather than +1 DR/adamantine, for each Improved DR feat (ECS) you take. (The higher DR increase makes sense, IMO - slashing weapons are much more common than adamantine ones.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Does Quick Change essentially duplicate the Warshaper class ability that lets a shapechanger change shapes as a free action? Given how broken that PrC is for Changelings, that might not be a bad thing.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

By the way, it also has another benefit. That is, if you have this feat, you have the option to get +2 DR/slashing, rather than +1 DR/adamantine, for each Improved DR feat (ECS) you take. (The higher DR increase makes sense, IMO - slashing weapons are much more common than adamantine ones.)

I could easily see a WF Druid w/ the improved DR feats charging into battle w/ all those piercing arrows deflecting or getting stuck in him (w/o harm)

 

[Banshee16]

Persona Immersion, Quick Change, Racial Emulation. Also, the Disturbing Visage tactical feat.

Further, Mutable Body requires you to be a Shapechanger.

Master Linguist, while not race-specific, is pretty handy too and changelings have an easy time fulfilling the prereqs (i.e., speak 4 languages).

And I like changelings very much too. One of my players likes them even more (more than the other 3 Eberron-specific PC races, even).

What do these Changeling feats do? I think Quick Change is self-explanatory, but what about the others? I'm not asking for stats here...just general ideas....

I think Mutable Body and Persona Immersion are the ones I'm unclear on.

Oh, and what's "Doppleganger Transformation"? Is it a spell that allows a Changeling to completely become a doppleganger? For a duration? Permanently?

Banshee

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Warforged gain a couple of new feats including one that grants them a wooden body so they can become druids.

Haha. This reminds me of the Futurama episode where Bender was getting a software upgrade. He had a hallucination that he ran away to an island where he got a wooden body to be closer to nature.