Warforge in LFR

[hennebeck]

I had a nice conversation with Mike Mearls at World Wide D&D GameDay.

I am also an FR fanatic. And I let him know my concerns.

And for the same reasons that others have posted, he said that Bloodforged, Constructs and Golems have been in FR for a very long time.
And that now there are stats for them and WOTC had said that all stuff is Core as long as your DM says so, why not give it a try.

He said Make the Warforged in your campaign the only animated construct on the planet. Nothing wrong with that.
Make it an experiment gone wrong and that it used to be a Drow.
Or Blue-flame enhanced suit of armor.

I really like the wall reference up above.
For me, I am hard-coded to "follow the rules".
And now that the rules let me do anything, I can.
And that's a good thing.

 

[Duncan Haldane]

I had a nice conversation with Mike Mearls at World Wide D&D GameDay.

I am also an FR fanatic. And I let him know my concerns.

And for the same reasons that others have posted, he said that Bloodforged, Constructs and Golems have been in FR for a very long time.
And that now there are stats for them and WOTC had said that all stuff is Core as long as your DM says so, why not give it a try.

He said Make the Warforged in your campaign the only animated construct on the planet. Nothing wrong with that.
Make it an experiment gone wrong and that it used to be a Drow.
Or Blue-flame enhanced suit of armor.

I really like the wall reference up above.
For me, I am hard-coded to "follow the rules".
And now that the rules let me do anything, I can.
And that's a good thing.

That's all well and good for a home campaign. It doesn't work for LFR. I could be sitting at a table and have 5 other people want to play warforged. Or I could be asked to DM a group of 6.

Duncan

 

[amysrevenge]

That's all well and good for a home campaign. It doesn't work for LFR. I could be sitting at a table and have 5 other people want to play warforged. Or I could be asked to DM a group of 6.

Duncan

You can't just pick out the one answer that doesn't fit. There are stacks of suggestions in this thread (and even more in the similar thread in the Gleemax LFR forum) to make it at least palatable, if not desirable.

(I have played two warforged PCs in LFR so far, and have built four. Not optimized, just fun.)

 

[qstor]

That's all well and good for a home campaign. It doesn't work for LFR. I could be sitting at a table and have 5 other people want to play warforged. Or I could be asked to DM a group of 6.

Duncan

Well...since you can play the LFR adventure OVER play a tiefling then go back and play the adventure again with your *cough* ready for the Forgotten Realms warforged that Bill Slavicsek have said are there all the time.

Mike

 

[DracoSuave]

1) The FR stuff was -always- usable in Eberron-The-Campaign-That-Was-Designed-To-Include-Everything. Eberron's uniqueness is based not on what is in it, but the place it fits in the whole shebang. Elves aren't the same sorts of elves you find in other settings, yet there they are. Night Hags are rulers of a country trying to find diplomatic ties with the human realm. Half-elves are sometimes crossbred from forbidden love.... but more often they're a distinct race that is its own identity. Orcs aren't even -close- to being the bad guys. Goblins have their own culture. None of the differences that make Eberron -Eberron- come from rules fluff so much as what Eberron does with what's already existed, except for Dragonmarks... and.... that's about it. That -includes- Warforged. Player characters have wanted to play magicrobots since forever. Eberron just provided them a good way to do so. It's hardly 'new'. I had a 'warforged' PC in a game I ran over a decade ago for FR.

2) Forgotten Realms is so expansive that pretty much anything could and -has- been in it. It's been absorbing stuff from other campaign settings since forever.

Examples: Tiefling, Aasimar, Genasi. The Planetouched aren't a Forgotten Realms original, by any stretch of the imagination. They were Planescape born through and through, but they found their way into FR, despite the fact that they weren't -really- 'appropriate' before then. Warforged are probably going to undergo the same treatment.

Examples: Most of the spells that begin with ______'s. For gossake, the Greyhawk mages are mentioned as part of Faerun's magical lore in some older books. Again, FR is hardly an isolated plane with no connection to nothing.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Abi Dalzim is my hero.

 

[waytoomuchcoffee2]

Forget Warforged. What I am really tired of are those people that play Drow, since they were designed for Greyhawk. I refuse even to step into the so-called "Underdark", as even that isn't original to FR. So there.