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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 3232197" data-attributes="member: 27957">As I see it there are two questions.  Do the warforged have significant disadvantages to balance their advantages?  Are the handful of warforged immunities enough to seriously imbalance the game?  In my experience the answers are Yes and No.  Warforged are a specialized race with as many unique hinderances as abilities, and I've never been in a campaign where their immunities were more than a minor feature.Other people may have other experiences.  If a DM's style depends heavily on negative conditions, then a warforged might be especially problamatic.  Though maybe it's just me, but I see a lot of people talking about how their actual play experience was that warforged weren't unbalanced, and the people on the other side of the debate throwing around a lot of theory.It reminds me of the huge arguements over the Warlock when it first came out.  People were up in arms about how completely broken and overpowered the class was because it never ran out of spells.  Until the class got some play time and everyone realised that it was actually on the weak side.  With new material that work in a different way it's often hard to judge their effects on paper alone.  Warlocks, warforged, and Warblades have all caused a huge stir because they're not just a variation on what came before (ie Scout, kalashtar, Warmage) but do something new that people aren't prepared for.  I can't help but think that once the surprise wears off it'll be clear they're really not that big a deal.</blockquote>

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