Wolfgang's "Demonweb Q&A"

[Nightfall]

Agreed Col. Just because I don't personally like Warforged, doesn't mean I'll say "No warforged ever!" Just no warforged outside of Eberron.

 

[Shadeydm]

Your point being...? If you don't want to have them as PCs, then disallow them in your campaign. What's the problem?

So are you saying you can pluck the warforged from eberron and it works just fine?

 

[Hussar]

Sure. Why not? Most campaigns are not so tightly wound up in setting canon that you can't fold, spindle and mutilate them far beyond what some company tells you.

*Says the guy who replaced Hollow Knights with warforged.*

Heck, the current Savage Tide AP sets the Isle of Dread in Greyhawk. How's that for setting mixing?

 

[Pants]

Well, we could always talk about 4e?

/M

As long as it doesn't hijack a currently existing thread.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So are you saying you can pluck the warforged from eberron and it works just fine?

Lots of people have done it.

 

[Nellisir]

*shrug* I'd be surprised if there were NOT published cases of (the equivalent of, at least) golems that can Polymorph Self before 3.x. That's all it would take to have a "robot in disguise".

Caraytid columns (sp?). Not exactly "transformers", but certainly able to morph from one form to another.

 

[JustKim]

Caraytid columns (sp?). Not exactly "transformers", but certainly able to morph from one form to another.

Sonofa- now that I've pictured it, there's no way I'll be able to use a caryatid column without imagining the Transformers sound.

 

[Jhaelen]

So are you saying you can pluck the warforged from eberron and it works just fine?

Absolutely!
IIRC, they weren't really meant to play a prominent role in the setting by the setting's original author (Keith Baker). Putting them in the limelight and making them available as player characters was someone else's idea (although it seems to have been a good idea from a marketing viewpoint).
If you trust the demographics from ECS the total number of existing warforged is so small, you might as well ignore them entirely or just use them as adversaries. It's what I'd do.

I'd also like to point out that 1st.ed. AD&D contained a lot more sci-fi silliness than any of the later editions. Ever looked at Barrier Peaks? Or the Hidden City in Blackmoor? Or the Temple of the Frog?

Eberron is one of the best official AD&D settings so far - ESPECIALLY if you ignore the warforged!

 

[Nellisir]

Sonofa- now that I've pictured it, there's no way I'll be able to use a caryatid column without imagining the Transformers sound.

You're welcome.

 

[Voadam]

So are you saying you can pluck the warforged from eberron and it works just fine?

Has for me. I use the dragon magazine article on them with the racial stats and use them in different campaigns with different back stories for their creation/existence.