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<blockquote data-quote="Ozmar" data-source="post: 1626891" data-attributes="member: 8021">I dunno... I think that would cross the line (for me) between fantasy and &quot;science fantasy&quot;.I'm trying to think of them as living beings - with the same mind and soul as humans, elves and dwarves. I wouldn't want them to do &quot;software&quot; upgrades unless the same options could be applied to other minds. Now, having said that, since I am using psionics, I could see using psionic powers to modify a person's mind, skills or even switch bodies. (I believe that there are some powers in the XPH that can do things like that?) But of course, that's not a warforged thing, its a psionic thing.I have had my players bugging me already with many questions about the nature of warforged: reproduction, their living qualities, and their interaction with magic. I told them they can't be dragonmarked, b/c only members of those houses are dragonmarked. But what about Aberrant Dragonmarks? Does it make sense that maybe an aberrant mark could appear on a created warforged? After all, no one knows the ultimate source of dragonmarks - only that they have historically only appeared on elves, humans, gnomes, half-orcs, dwarves, halflings and half-elves. That doesn't mean that one couldn't appear on, say... a shifter. What about a warforged??? I think I'll defer to what the rules say (i.e., the pre-reqs for the Aberrant Mark feat) - but what if it doesn't specify a racial prereq? Warforged with dragonmarks? Ye gods! How do I explain it?Hmmm... Maybe the warforged was created intentionally with a dragonmark? Maybe it was part of an experiment. Yeah! That's the answer for everything with warforged: they were created by humans with arcane magic, and anything out of the ordinary is a unique modification. So while it may look like a dragonmark, it is &quot;really&quot; just a magical ability that the warforged can use once per day (not really any different than a magical enchantment ala magic armor enhancements, right?) Ozmar the Rationalizing</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ozmar, post: 1626891, member: 8021"] I dunno... I think that would cross the line (for me) between fantasy and "science fantasy". I'm trying to think of them as living beings - with the same mind and soul as humans, elves and dwarves. I wouldn't want them to do "software" upgrades unless the same options could be applied to other minds. Now, having said that, since I am using psionics, I could see using psionic powers to modify a person's mind, skills or even switch bodies. (I believe that there are some powers in the XPH that can do things like that?) But of course, that's not a warforged thing, its a psionic thing. I have had my players bugging me already with many questions about the nature of warforged: reproduction, their living qualities, and their interaction with magic. I told them they can't be dragonmarked, b/c only members of those houses are dragonmarked. But what about Aberrant Dragonmarks? Does it make sense that maybe an aberrant mark could appear on a created warforged? After all, no one knows the ultimate source of dragonmarks - only that they have historically only appeared on elves, humans, gnomes, half-orcs, dwarves, halflings and half-elves. That doesn't mean that one [I]couldn't[/I] appear on, say... a shifter. What about a warforged??? I think I'll defer to what the rules say (i.e., the pre-reqs for the Aberrant Mark feat) - but what if it doesn't specify a racial prereq? Warforged with dragonmarks? Ye gods! How do I explain it? Hmmm... Maybe the warforged was created intentionally with a dragonmark? Maybe it was part of an experiment. Yeah! That's the answer for everything with warforged: they were created by humans with arcane magic, and anything out of the ordinary is a unique modification. So while it may look like a dragonmark, it is "really" just a magical ability that the warforged can use once per day (not really any different than a magical enchantment ala magic armor enhancements, right?) Ozmar the Rationalizing [/QUOTE]

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