D&D 5E What are your (up to 3) favorite character races? - Wizards Survey Duplication

[Bolares]

@AcererakTriple6 about warforged in other worlds. I agree they don’t really fit as a race, but as a one off, or a reskin of other artificial beings they would have a place in most settings

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

@AcererakTriple6 about warforged in other worlds. I agree they don’t really fit as a race, but as a one off, or a reskin of other artificial beings they would have a place in most settings

Yep. That was basically my point. Warforged as a race/culture are specific to Eberron. An individual, unique Warforged in any other world could work. In Theros, they could have been created by Purphoros. In Ravnica, the Izzet Guild. In the Forgotten Realms, they could be an advanced form of a Nimblewright or Netherese construct. In Exandria, they'd probably be an Aeormaton.

There are a few settings that I don't think they'd fit in at all (Dark Sun, for example), but in most D&D worlds, as a one-of-a-kind character, they certainly could fit.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I think tha'ts indicative of us needing a better grade of settings with more magic and Fantasy instead of continually going back to the low fantasy, low power, low fantasy well that's basically Europe with pointy ears over and over.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I think tha'ts indicative of us needing a better grade of settings with more magic and Fantasy instead of continually going back to the low fantasy, low power, low fantasy well that's basically Europe with pointy ears over and over.

When has D&D been low fantasy? Most D&D settings are very high fantasy. And you want more magic? D&D is already dominated by magic.

I agree with Europe pastiches being pretty done though.

 

[Vaalingrade]

When has D&D been low fantasy? Most D&D settings are very high fantasy. And you want more magic?

D&D says it's high fantasy, but it is generally lying. Magic gets powerful, but basically only some places in FR and the whole of Eberron does it actually mean anything to society or life in the world as a whole.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Yep. That was basically my point. Warforged as a race/culture are specific to Eberron. An individual, unique Warforged in any other world could work. In Theros, they could have been created by Purphoros. In Ravnica, the Izzet Guild. In the Forgotten Realms, they could be an advanced form of a Nimblewright or Netherese construct. In Exandria, they'd probably be an Aeormaton.

In a homebrew I ran in the 3e era, I had Warforged spontaneously generate from old battlegrounds. They were composed of wood, stone, bits of armor, and the psychic residue of slain combatants.

 

[Greg K]

D&D says it's high fantasy, but it is generally lying. Magic gets powerful, but basically only some places in FR and the whole of Eberron does it actually mean anything to society or life in the world as a whole.

No. D&D is high fantasy. "The basic defining tenet of high fantasy is that a fantasy story is set in an alternative fictional world, typically with magical elements."

 

[Vaalingrade]

This board needs to go cold turkey from semantics.

 

[Maxperson]

This board needs to go cold turkey from semantics.

Why? Semantics often matters. People need to stop trying to dismiss valid arguments by deflecting with "semantics."

 

[Demetrios1453]

This board needs to go cold turkey from semantics.

Each and every word in that sentence could have multiple meanings! As a group, we should dissect each one!