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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 1609039" data-attributes="member: 15800">Yeah, I'll give you that. I was being silly. Personally, I see most warforged as coming off the forge with two levels, so the skirmisher would probably be a barbarian/ranger or barbarian/fighter... that way you could pick up your literacy by taking the other class as the "base" class. This allows far more military specializations and helps to justify the use of warforged (making them significantly better than 1st-level human warriors), but does raise the question of why your PC warforged starts at 1st-level if most of his counterparts are 2nd. There are certainly ways around this; among other things, as a PC you get action points and the ability to advance in level more quickly than NPCs generally do in Eberron, so you can easily be an experimental model. I'm personally a fan of saying that the 1st-level warforged is recovering from the effects of the war -- "Pierce just hasn't been quite right since the Mourning" -- with the idea that once you reach 2nd level you're back on your feet, but that's an idea many people have trouble with. After all, whoever heard of a construct with post-traumatic stress disorder?</blockquote>