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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8117446" data-attributes="member: 7023887">You are correct, Shifters and Changelings are the easiest to add, I have added them to my <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/tor-eal-1000-years-after-the-devils-win-the-blood-war.673418/" target="_blank">homebrew world</a>. You just need to say "lycanthropes and dopplegangers mate, too" and it's done. Warforged and Kalashtar are definitely more difficult to justify. No matter how much I like the races, I couldn't bring myself to just steal them and put them in the same world (did a bit of a workaround, made my own "equivalents" of them as golem-kin). Warforged are difficult to add into any world that isn't high/widespread tech/magic. Theros and other Greek settings are some of the easiest settings to justify them in, as automatons were a thing in Greek mythology, and you could just explain it as being created by the forge deity (Hephaestus/Vulcan/Purphoros/whomever). The same thing mostly applies to the Forgotten Realms. Just say they were created by the priests of Gond for a holy war, or were mechanical mercenaries created by the artificer gnomes and humans of Lantan. For Ravnica, it's also pretty easy to justify them. They can just be an experiment of the Izzet gone right (or wrong, from a certain point of view). For the transitive settings (Planescape and Spelljammer), you can just explain that they travelled from Eberron or another world with Warforged. As for other worlds (Ravenloft, Innistrad, Dark Sun, Homebrew Worlds), it's probably easiest to explain Warforged as the result of a powerful artificer, the casting of a Wish/Animate Objects spell, or something like that. If Warforged are not a race in the world, and a player wants to play one there and you are fine with allowing them, you may want to ask them how their character came into being. It can help a lot if you're out of ideas. Then, Kalashtar. These are a bit more tricky than the Warforged, Shifters, and Changelings, as they weren't created in Eberron through breeding or artifice. However, in other worlds, you could easily explain it as being warped by a Mind Flayer or other aberration's psionic powers, merging your mind with a Coatl, a mage's experiment, or anything else you come up with.</blockquote>

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