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<blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 3759653" data-attributes="member: 6779">Watch I, Robot, then ask again.Seriously, &quot;warforged = magic droids&quot; is a pretty obvious conclusion to me. Created? Check. Made of artificial materials? Check. Second class citizens? Check. Repaired instead of healed? Check. Have funky &quot;don't eat/don't sleep&quot;-type abilities? Check.Saying &quot;no, they're not robots, they're living constructs&quot; is more than a little like saying, &quot;no, it's not a duck, it's a small waterfowl!&quot;Whether people like that or not, is another matter all together. I think there are settings or scenarios where warforged are just hunkydory. In Eberron (which, as has been mentioned before, often has a certain &quot;D&amp;D does Star Wars&quot; feel), they fit beautifully. I could easily see them in Planescape or Spelljammer, too.On the other hand, they wouldn't fit so well in something like Lord of the Rings or Arthurian-style. It's all about the sub-genre, baby! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" /> I think really the commonality of the warforged is probably the main thing that sets people off, as with the tiefling-as-core-race and so forth. A random mad scientist has a magically-created, sentient construct in his lab? Awesome. Every sixth hero you meet is a magically-created, sentient construct? Quite possibly not-so-awesome.-The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The_Gneech, post: 3759653, member: 6779"] Watch [i]I, Robot[/i], then ask again. Seriously, "warforged = magic droids" is a pretty obvious conclusion to me. Created? Check. Made of artificial materials? Check. Second class citizens? Check. Repaired instead of healed? Check. Have funky "don't eat/don't sleep"-type abilities? Check. Saying "no, they're not robots, they're living constructs" is more than a little like saying, "no, it's not a duck, it's a small waterfowl!" Whether people like that or not, is another matter all together. I think there are settings or scenarios where warforged are just hunkydory. In Eberron (which, as has been mentioned before, often has a certain "[i]D&D[/i] does [i]Star Wars[/i]" feel), they fit beautifully. I could easily see them in Planescape or Spelljammer, too. On the other hand, they wouldn't fit so well in something like [i]Lord of the Rings[/i] or Arthurian-style. It's all about the sub-genre, baby! :] I think really the commonality of the warforged is probably the main thing that sets people off, as with the tiefling-as-core-race and so forth. A random mad scientist has a magically-created, sentient construct in his lab? Awesome. Every sixth hero you meet [i][b]is[/b][/i] a magically-created, sentient construct? Quite possibly not-so-awesome. -The Gneech :cool: [/QUOTE]

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