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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3766030" data-attributes="member: 19675">Personally, I see Warforged as robots...&quot;Not that there's anything wrong with that.&quot;I have no problem with robots or robot type concepts in my fantasy, and have referred to other D&amp;D critters besides Warforged as robots as well, like the aforementioned Clockwork Horrors.&nbsp; And in all honesty, Warforged have many classic robotic attributes.There are all kinds of &quot;robotic&quot; characters outside of sci-fi: Bubo from Clash of the Titans, The Tin Man from the Oz stories, Pinnochio, animated armors and the aformentioned golems spring to mind.&nbsp; So does the RW story of the Turk chess-playing automaton hoax (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk)-" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk)-</a> from the 1770's no less- predating the invention of the term &quot;Robot&quot; by Karel Capek in 1921.&nbsp; I'm sure if you looked, you could find stories of similar automatons coming to life in any culture familiar with automatons in general...like China and Japan.I think that the knee-jerk relegation of robots to sci-fi is just the product of people not being aware of the other sources of robot stories.&nbsp; After all, robot stories are just as much a hallmark of sci-fi as ghost stories are of fantasy and horror, so its easy to think that there aren't any robot stories outside of the genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3766030, member: 19675"] Personally, I see Warforged as robots...[I]"Not that there's anything wrong with that."[/I] I have no problem with robots or robot type concepts in my fantasy, and have referred to other D&D critters besides Warforged as robots as well, like the aforementioned Clockwork Horrors. And in all honesty, Warforged have many classic robotic attributes. There are all kinds of "robotic" characters outside of sci-fi: Bubo from Clash of the Titans, The Tin Man from the Oz stories, Pinnochio, animated armors and the aformentioned golems spring to mind. So does the RW story of the Turk chess-playing automaton hoax ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk)-[/url] from the 1770's no less- predating the invention of the term "Robot" by Karel Capek in 1921. I'm sure if you looked, you could find stories of similar automatons coming to life in any culture familiar with automatons in general...like China and Japan. I think that the knee-jerk relegation of robots to sci-fi is just the product of people not being aware of the other sources of robot stories. After all, robot stories are just as much a hallmark of sci-fi as ghost stories are of fantasy and horror, so its easy to think that there aren't any robot stories outside of the genre. [/QUOTE]

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