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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk Diesel" data-source="post: 7832392" data-attributes="member: 59848"><p>I have a few thoughts. First, while there are a lot of Warforged in Eberron, I would not say they are common or make up a significant portion of the population. Especially since the Treaty of Thronehold required the destruction of all remaining creation forges and the creation of any new warforged is illegal. We tend to think because we as players may see a lot of people making warforged characters that there must be a lot of them. However, PCs are always the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to how they compare to the general populace of a given game world. So a person in Eberron, especially those outside of large cities, could probably go their whole lives and count on one hand the number of individual Warforged they have seen. This combined with general racism towards Warforged (as many don't see or recognize them as sentient creatures but rather tools/weapons of war) and a difficulty telling warforged apart (due to both a racist attitude and an innate difficulty, since I doubt many people have a built-in schema to recognize artificial creatures that only recently emerged into the world) would make it largely unnecessary to need much for one warforged to pass as another. I think most people in Eberron wouldn't be able to tell warforged apart, and for those that could hiding or altering the appearance of a warforged's Ghulra on their forehead would likely be sufficient. Thus it makes little sense and likely wouldn't come up in a normal game for one warforged to need to pass as another. And even if it did, it would not be a difficult task that would require specialized training or materials.</p><p></p><p>The second thought is regarding changelings. And while this does create competition, I would say changelings are still superior. A Warforged with a built-in disguise kit could not change the texture or feel of their metal skin, and under scrutiny would fail much more often than a changeling. But we are also talking about specialized individuals versus general talent. The average changeling is way more skilled in disguise than the average... anyone. But someone that specializes in disguise, such as an illusionist, transmuter, assassin, or even a warforged envoy with a racial disguise kit could likely equal or even beat an average changeling in the art of disguise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawk Diesel, post: 7832392, member: 59848"] I have a few thoughts. First, while there are a lot of Warforged in Eberron, I would not say they are common or make up a significant portion of the population. Especially since the Treaty of Thronehold required the destruction of all remaining creation forges and the creation of any new warforged is illegal. We tend to think because we as players may see a lot of people making warforged characters that there must be a lot of them. However, PCs are always the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to how they compare to the general populace of a given game world. So a person in Eberron, especially those outside of large cities, could probably go their whole lives and count on one hand the number of individual Warforged they have seen. This combined with general racism towards Warforged (as many don't see or recognize them as sentient creatures but rather tools/weapons of war) and a difficulty telling warforged apart (due to both a racist attitude and an innate difficulty, since I doubt many people have a built-in schema to recognize artificial creatures that only recently emerged into the world) would make it largely unnecessary to need much for one warforged to pass as another. I think most people in Eberron wouldn't be able to tell warforged apart, and for those that could hiding or altering the appearance of a warforged's Ghulra on their forehead would likely be sufficient. Thus it makes little sense and likely wouldn't come up in a normal game for one warforged to need to pass as another. And even if it did, it would not be a difficult task that would require specialized training or materials. The second thought is regarding changelings. And while this does create competition, I would say changelings are still superior. A Warforged with a built-in disguise kit could not change the texture or feel of their metal skin, and under scrutiny would fail much more often than a changeling. But we are also talking about specialized individuals versus general talent. The average changeling is way more skilled in disguise than the average... anyone. But someone that specializes in disguise, such as an illusionist, transmuter, assassin, or even a warforged envoy with a racial disguise kit could likely equal or even beat an average changeling in the art of disguise. [/QUOTE]
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