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<blockquote data-quote="Hamburger Mary" data-source="post: 3764981" data-attributes="member: 17363">You're not alone in this - a bunch of other people on the thread have said that it's their population that kills it. The funny thing is that for me, it's 100% the opposite. A single construct PC? Whatever. Given all the weird races and creatures in D&amp;D, it's just one more drop in the bucket. What makes the warforged interesting to me is that they ARE a race - a race without a home or a purpose. It raises a bunch of issues:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They can't reproduce. What's that do to a species?</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They were built by humans to fight and die. Now there's no war... and they're a race of warriors. What do they do?</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">As a race that's only 30 years old, they have no established culture; the only foundation they have to build on is war.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're uniquely suited to survival in the Mournland, since they don't eat and don't heal naturally anyway.</li>
</ul>Taking all these into context, we get to explore the evolution of a culture. We get things like the Becoming God, the Lord of Blades, and others, as the warforged as a race try to find a place in the world. Will they try to found a peaceful nation in the Mournland? Will they seek vengeance on their creators? These issues provide warforged PCs with the question of loyalty to race or friends... a central theme in the novel The Shattered Land. They aren't like elves, dwarves, or even kalashtar, who all have thousands of years of history: they're a race born of war, in a world that wants to forget the war. (&quot;Don't mention the warforged!&quot;) So to me, a single warforged is dull; a single warforged IS Data. But the evolution of warforged society is a fascinating theme, and something that does move them into a different space than Frankenstein.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hamburger Mary, post: 3764981, member: 17363"] You're not alone in this - a bunch of other people on the thread have said that it's their population that kills it. The funny thing is that for me, it's 100% the opposite. A single construct PC? Whatever. Given all the weird races and creatures in D&D, it's just one more drop in the bucket. What makes the warforged interesting to me is that they ARE a race - a race without a home or a purpose. It raises a bunch of issues: [list][*]They can't reproduce. What's that do to a species? [*]They were built by humans to fight and die. Now there's no war... and they're a race of warriors. What do they do? [*]As a race that's only 30 years old, they have no established culture; the only foundation they have to build on is war. [*]They're uniquely suited to survival in the Mournland, since they don't eat and don't heal naturally anyway.[/list] Taking all these into context, we get to explore the evolution of a [i]culture[/i]. We get things like the Becoming God, the Lord of Blades, and others, as the warforged [i]as a race[/i] try to find a place in the world. Will they try to found a peaceful nation in the Mournland? Will they seek vengeance on their creators? These issues provide warforged PCs with the question of loyalty to race or friends... a central theme in the novel [i]The Shattered Land[/i]. They aren't like elves, dwarves, or even kalashtar, who all have thousands of years of history: they're a race born of war, in a world that wants to forget the war. ("Don't mention the warforged!") So to me, a single warforged is dull; a single warforged IS Data. But the evolution of warforged society is a fascinating theme, and something that does move them into a different space than [i]Frankenstein[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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