Warforged: Armor Proficiency?

[Anthelios]

Does a warforged with the mithral or adamantine body feats suffer the normal penality to attack rolls if they don't possess medium or heavy armor proficiencies?

Say, an adamantine artificer, would they suffer the -5 armor check penality given by the feat to their attack rolls?

It doesnt specificly call it an armor check penality, but says "penalty to all checks that would be affected by an armor check penalty"

It also says that class features, like druid spellcasting are lost if wearing the armor.

 

[shilsen]

IIRC, Keith Baker posted on the Eberron boards on the WotC site that warforged have proficiency in whatever armor (basic, mithral body or adamantine body) they were created with.

 

[Gnome]

Additionally, I remember reading that it doesn't actually count as wearing armor, even though it has many of the same effects, and takes up the armor slot on the body, so I'm pretty sure there are no restrictions for warforged druids.

 

[Gnome]

After having written the above, now I'm not so sure. If what I said was true, then a warforged monk could get the adamantite body feat without any problem, and that doesn't seem right.

I do remember that Warforged druids are explicitly allowed, and that they are always proficient in their own body, regardless of class.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Note that warforged "armor" doesn't actually have an Armor Check Penalty (the Mithral Fluidity feat is miswriten).

Rather, it sometimes has a penalty which acts an awful lot like an ACP.

Warforged are automatically proficient in their own skin. Basic warforged composite plating isn't even considered to be light metal armor, such that warforged druids and monks can be made.* All the other skins contain text that says, "This plating acts like X armor for class abilities that depend on armor use," or something similar.



* - Yeah, I thought otherwise until recently, as well. I thought it counted as "metal," and therefore disallowed druids. It isn't, so they're possible.

 

[shilsen]

Warforged druids and monks are fine as long as they don't have the Mithral Body or Adamantine Body feat. Warforged with these feats do count as armored and lose any benefits that you lose in armor (light or heavy, depending on the feat). And druids can't cast druid spells with them. It's explicitly mentioned in each feat.