If you love living constructs, you'll love Oblivion Oddities. There's multiple different kinds of Living Constructs. In Oblivion Oddities, there's a class called Crafters. Certain Crafters have learned new things & achieved new levels. They can make living constructs at high levels. Not only that they can make temporary constructs in combat on the fly through their "Forging" actions & abilities. Living Constructs are about a 10th of the global population & Lycanthropes are about 50% of the global population.
Hey! Great minds think alike! I had a similar idea, except my warforged scarecrow is an oath of the ancients paladin who just wants to help look after the local farms. He wields a pitchfork (trident) and a pallet (shield). He is the Pallet-in, guardian of the fields!
yo this reminds of fiddlesticks, you could make an evil scarecrow, perhaps a being with a soul of a old siner, who made a dark bargain to live again at the cost of his freedom. Actualy, he could be a farmer, that got killed by some biger farmer that took him as a treat to their monopoly because often times he ofered food to those in need, taking people away from their reach, and now comes back to life to make justice under a moraly wrong path or... avenge yourself, and end them forever...
I'm running a scarecrow vengeance paladin he's looking to make the hag that made him a red smeer on the floor (hags make scarecrow golems by ripping the soul out of a sentient being and shoving it into the golem and bending it to there will (he's broken free from that control obviously)
I played a warforged battlesmith whose singular goal was to unlock the secrets of his own construction so that he could build his own child and be a dad. All his magic in the early game was flavoured around tinkering with his own magical body parts, and then later it turned into building and improving prototypes. He had a homunculus called Gizmo and a series of increasingly bipedal steel defenders called Mark I, Mark II, etc. Basically each time the steel defender went down in combat he built a different design and changed the name. Eventually I switched out the homunculus invocation for headband of intellect and put it on the steel defender, effectively combining the body of Mark VI with the mind of Gizmo, finally making his son, Mark Gizmo.
I played part of an all-Warforged party in the Eberron setting. Being inhuman was a LOT of fun, we had an absurd sense of humor. Oh, and as a party having no need to eat, sleep, or breathe made many "challenges" a moot point. At first it drove our DM crazy, but he changed his viewpoint and adapted. Meatbags don't grind and squeak after sandstorms the way we did.
I had a draconic ancestry warforged sorcerer planned for a game that never happened. The explanation for the draconic powers was that dragon bones and scales were used in its construction
The Warforged I played (a replacement character after previous one died) introduced himself while using a disguise self spell to look human under his mask. He then attempted to drink a beer which just want all down his front as he didn't have a real mouth. He then cleared this up with Prestidigitation like nothing had happened. He was called Sven and was an arcane trickster. The group had a good laugh about it and accepted him quickly.
Just an fyi, if you wanna fry it there’s a home brew module for 5e called Dungeons and Destiny. It gets updated sometimes. Haven’t looked at it in a while, but last I checked they were working on adding stasis. This was right after beyond light.
The first one can be a good example of how to play an evil character without pulling a "it's what my character would do" and being an asshole to your party. Your party members are tools and good tools are hard to come by, so you want to keep them happy and on your side, which sometimes means making compromises like not burning down an orphanage. You have to be willing to bend a bit or you'll break and get killed by your own tools, so make compromises. You can in character be unhappy about it, but if you want to keep your tools with you, you need to work with them, not make them work for you
Came up with a Sasori inspired concept once. He was born human, and trained as an artificer when he was young, but as he grew older it became apparent he was incredibly ill and was progressively getting weaker and weaker. So he made himself both a steel defender he named Hanzo and a new mechanical body that looked just like his human one, proxy skin and all. He transitioned his soul from his dying human body to his new, stronger warforged body and no he has spell firing guns in his arms and swords hidden in his legs. Also he's not sure if he still needs to breathe or eat, he hasn't pooped but he doesn't feel heavier, bur he's also to nervous to try going without food or diving into the ocean without some kind of lifeline
I played a warforged barbarian that went by 2 names, Bastion and Bulwark, bastion (not raging) was kind and calm, but bulwark (raging) was silent and sadistic only caring about his next kill. I did this to explain his reaction to the last war, bastion is the person after the war, but bulwark was the monstrous construct that took so many lives.
My first warforged was basically just a high-fantasy Robocop. He was a warforged juggernaut with a flail and kite shield with the designation 05-CR, or “Oscar” as the party came to call him, because he was basically made out of battlefield trash packed around a steel replica of a human skeleton. Naturally he was a Paladin, and my DM told me he was the best and most lovable case of “Lawful Stupid” he’d ever seen. Right now I’m working on one for a kind of diesel punk fantasy that’s gonna play like HK-47. Calling everyone meatbags, starting every sentence by announcing what kind of sentence it’s supposed to be, ie, “Statement: Meatbags never fail to disgust me.”
I've mentioned this guy a few times before. My favorite character Rook. Rook was a warforged barbarian. Initially built for war, after his war was finished he just wandered struggling to find a purpose until he was picked up by a mercenary group called the black fang. Primarily a group of dragon hunters it wasn't long until rook picked up some weird abilities like a dragon mark from a metallic dragon who hired the group to hunt down a chromatic rival. However his band was attacked by the dragon cult with rook being the only survivor, vowing to hunt down every last cultist and butcher them
I had an elemental warforged golem(even a 3D model that I made), our DM encouraged us on making any homebrew characters. Mine was a 9 feet iron golem(that was an inspiration from Minecraft) created by a long gone artificer. Backstory of my character: The golem was made by an artificer for his son as a sort of guardian, he was powered by a mana crystal that when used too often it will overheat and slow down the golem. The Golem did his job well...a little too well at least, the artificer unknowingly made enemies due to their jealousy of him making such "machine". One night the house of the artificer was was broken in, the artificer stood at the ready while his son was being protected by the golem itself. The assassins shot a poisened arrow at the artificer but it was blocked by the iron golem, that is where the golem went on a rampage and gruesomely attacked the assassins without mercy. Both the artificer and the son saw this and was terrified at his creation, it turns out at that moment the golem gained sentience and looked down at the carnage that he made. For the first time... he said something: "... I'm sorry creator, I am defective, I wish to be uncreated at your behest" the golem went outside and then went to the plain fields of flowers waiting for his master. Instead of uncreating him, his master exiled him or rather by his words "...you are free my creation...my son also shared my sentiment, but if you still wanted to protect him. Fight in the dark..." The Golem still remembers that day...even 250 years later
I created a Warforged Tempest Cleric who was created by a Gnome Artificer as a project to aid a Citywatch Organization, with him being the first proper Warforged in the setting. At first, he was rather mechanical in nature, with him following his programming to protect and serve, though eventually he learned, becoming the party's moral compass...Along with this, his God was the one who gave him life, providing the power that keeps him running along with providing his magic, which was why he kept looking for ways to spread the word of the God of Elements and Weather. Due to him being one of the original Party Members who managed to survive (we had a tendency to lose a lot of Characters early on as some players made decisions that directly lead to it...) he often insures the other surviving party member, a Half-Elf Wizard is safe, worrying greatly about her after watching multiple companions perish.
My two favorite Warforged characters were Guardian (a druid with a tiny myconid as a pet/companion, that acted very similar to the robots from Laputa) and Rocko (full name: Rockolla. He was a bard that was created with the purpose of recoding songs so that his owner could listen to the same one on repeat for hours. After his owner died he ventured into the world with the purpose of learning how to truly compose a real song by himself, because although he had the theoretical knowledge needed to write music, his creations lacked the soul a living being could imbue into one. So, a bit like the Tinman from the Wizard of Oz)
My favorite Warforged is Koronir, who had a hive full of living bees crammed into his chest cavity by an insane tiefling named Belenth Aes'tir. As such, he became known as Beeforged.
Its kind of hilarious, I just played Descent into Avernus, and my Warforged was almost the exact opposite of Cassanova. My DM was pretty lenient with rulings, and wanted to run a power trip style of campaign, so we each got a boon of some sort. QuarryBorn was a Barbarian with Gauntlets of Ogre Strength. He ended up going all "my friends are my power," so by the end he was a Barb(Bear Totem 5)/Fighter (Champion 3)/Rogue(Scout 3)/Paladin (Oath of the Watchers 3). With the Sword of Zariel, in the final fight I ended up doing like 250 damage in one round, it was pretty wild. As a post module wrap up, our DM asked us what we'd be doing next, and I told her QB's next goal would be to find a smith that could make the sword a finesse weapon. It was very fun getting to describe the physical differences attuning to the sword made.
I had an idea of a warforged rogue that was especially good at infiltrating castles because he was designed to look like the armor on the stands in the hallways of the castle
Eyyy. My favorite too. My favorite warforged memory was playing STOK. Or when he frenzied. S.T.O.K.E. Strategic and Tactical, Overwhelming, Killzone, Evaluation.
I'm currently playing an undead/reanimated warforged named Dante who was killed by his husband because of the BBEG cleric order. He was so pissed off by this that it got the attention of Nemesis, the God of revenge, who gave him a deal to be her cleric and in return he would get the opportunity to bring down hell on his still living ex and the church he used to serve. He's great fun actually I'm enjoying this option a lot. Warforged are a super important part of our post world flood/pirate campaign and it's been really cool.
Love Warforged and the story they present, regardless of setting. In my Tuesday game I'm playing a Warforged character who looks a bit too human. However, the Warforged body serves as a champion to the warlock patron which the soul made a pact with. It's a really interesting dynamic that's helped to explore my own intrusive thoughts and other mental issues.
I made a clockwork Warforged as some kind of automaton, he got acquired by a clockmaker in a city without nature, the clockmaker also built small clockwork animals and as the man died, the warforged rebuilt himself in the manner his master would have done him, but he looks like a tree to complete the nature thing. He also built himself some company, a living turtle like well creature, like a walking fountain. His name is ACE and the clockwork critters find refuge in this tree like robot. ACE stands for Artificially Created Environment with the companion (he's a battlesmith) called CWF clockwork fountain
One of my favorite NPCs I made was a war forged crime boss. The setting i’d made had warforged as weapons whos creation process was lost to time, but he ran a syndicate of warforged of all shapes and types. The campaign fell through, but I planned for him to eventually upgrade his body with more appendages and flight capabilities.
I am creating a Warforged that was built by Druids, meaning it is not made of metal, but of gemstones like Aquamarine. Basically a golem worth a fortune.
my favorite character is reboot they're an autognome, not a warforged but a construct nonetheless, they're motivation is that they are owned by one of the party members, they act in whatever way they believe would be in their owners best interest, however they have no morals and only act in whichever way is most efficient, meanwhile their owner is chaotic good and constantly stumbling to teach them good morals. tldr: giving your character a pre-established dynamic with another character is very rewarding especially if you're playing a construct.
Depends on the construction style of origin. Like if your character was made vy dwarves, a magical means, clockwork, soul gem bound to a body, brain in a jar, enlightened small animal piloting a warforged mech suit
I'm playing a war forged made by a dwarf to help him in his elder years. Who is an armorer artificer. searching for an item stolen from his dead creator. While trying to do what his creator told him to and experience life once, he was no longer shackled by the responsibility of his creaors health.
I'm currently writing costum lore for the warforged for a character that I'm playing cuz the setting isn't ebberon. It's basically all races of the materium alloying and creating the warforged to defend the materium against eldritch horrors which then ended in a last stand where reality was rewritten so that all of that shit never happened. But the warforged survived dur to a certain component that negates all reality altering influences. My warforged is a 7ft tall juggernaut barbarian that seeks to kill everything that claims to be divine since his definition of a god requires a way more powerful being then any present in any DND setting
What the fuck!? I made a warforged named Guardian about a year ago. He was a huge emotionless guard bot that was created by a demigod to defend his daughter. He was a Paladin/Abjuration Wizard
Hey cinder, not sure if you’ll see this, but I had an idea for a character I really want to play. I really like to draw, it’s one of the things I’m good at, and I wanted to reflect my love for drawing in my character. The idea is that this character has the ability to bring there drawings to life. Weather they be weapons, monsters, or random objects. The problem is that there really aren’t any classes that can do what I want the character to do. Bard seems like the class that would want to have this kind of ability, but there magic is based in music and acting. Which doesn’t seem to fit with my idea at all. I would love to get some feedback on this idea if you have time, cause I’m totally stuck on how to make this idea work.
You could ask your DM if you could do bard but swap an instrument for a calligraphy set and just narratively flavor your spells and abilities as quick sketches and the like. Creation bard subclass would likely be your best bet. Alternatively, depending on what you specifically want to create, you could maybe reflavor a different caster and see if you could use the calligraphy set like a spell focus. Maybe a cleric blessed by a deity who loves art, creation, or self expression. Maybe a wizard who creates elaborate drawings instead of arcane symbols and runes. Flavor can cover a lot if your DM is cooperative.
in my current game there's a warforged gunslinger who pull an Ang n was buried under rubble for about a century n was left over from a long gone war between gnomes using autognomes yo attack the surface n the surface dwellers creating warforged to fight their war. He doesn't understand y we let people live sometimes n thus we can never leave him alone with a prisoner. He looks like a steampunk Robocop with big rivets n heavy armour plating. his pistol holsters into a slot on his leg n he has a built in retractable long sword in his arm.
Currently playing an auto gnome sorcerer in a spelljammer campaign. He’s charismatic from a logical standpoint, as he doesn’t quite understand “organic life forms” in some aspects. He is curious of them, and is fairly observant. He is also fond of tools and giving things a purpose, as he is on a quest to find his as he doesn’t remember his creator or where he came from. He thinks finding their creator will help him find purpose, as he must’ve been made for something. Right?
Ooh this was nice advice bc I've been trying to make one (the one I originally came up with got yoinked by my last dm for a inn-keepers husband lol. Idrm tho lol) Gotta figure out my new guy now. Which is fine, I've been tryna decide which War-forged subclass to give him (like, out of the 3 main Big Boy tank , Fighter, and lil shite respectfully)
A lot of people didnt really allow them because they were an Ebberon thing. But lately it seems the autognome sort of greased the wheels, and I might try to play one at some point.
One of my top characters I want to play is also a Warforged Sorcerer. Similar origins to Bastion from Overwatch, but was broke down in the Feywild. They hence become a Wild Magic Sorcerer
I have a funny one. His name is NOK. His creator was a powerful wizard/artificer whose’s task by the city was to capture/stop a demon and not just kill its avatar so I can go back and plan again. He created a demon core and planted it into NOK’s chest as a power source but as a golem to protect it. The creator was killed in the imprisonment process and now NOK has a demon inside him. Homebrew a few things, campaign is 2 years in, and we’re at level 17. NOK is 3lvl Hexblade Warlock and everytime he summons his pact weapon he draws from the demon’s energy, mechanics wise to discourage this is I roll a d20, if I roll a 1 the DM takes over my character and the demon temporarily takes over. A crack is made in the core and my alignment which started at Lawful Good moves diagonally. Once I have fail at Chaotic Evil Demon permanently breaks out, so 3 strikes and new character or lose those levels. The other levels are 11 into renegade fighter which was NOK’s original model/ design and 3 into phantom rouge because my creator’s soul was also partially trapped in the Demon Core. Currently at chaotic evil and the group is extremely concerned due to NOK starting out saving everyone he could with in reason to now just pulling out The Book Of Vile Deeds in a bar and start reading aloud is he gets annoyed.
Warforged are awesome, but I'm disappointed that there is apparently a lot of hate for them in the community for not being "fantasy" enough, dispite them basically just being sentient metal golems
i wanna play a life cleric called Aiden one day. the remnant of a small civil war where he'd have served not in combat but as a field medic. left lying at the base of a tree sundered by a canon and picked up by ilmater as he tended to hus broken body. think of a decently stocky build but with tears and breaks all over that have been filled in with gold (cuz of the thing in a culture where broken things are fixed with gold to show the value they still have)
I mean, it’s kinda understandable why Casanova Frankenstein got like that. How would you feel if you where basically a lab rat that went through a dimension of death.
A warforge I have in the wings is reflavored to be a Golem. Think Shale from Dragon Age. Found amongst the treasures of a dragon's horde, this golem was imbued with the magic of the dragon's lair becoming a draconic sorcerer
Yhe Warforged of my world are basically an analogy to AI and the arguments in the modern day. You'll get everything from Astroboy to Terminator to The Iron Giant to Autopilot from WALL-E in terms of philosophy or outlook on life. oldest among them are around 165 years old, produced during a revolutionary war. Whether it was by virtue of a broken circuit, by virtue of the LLM reaching a point of sentience, or a robot imitating sentience in some way, Warforged all reached that point, a population of 5,000,000 in a world with a total population of 1.5 billion. Like I said before, they are an analogy for AI in the real world as well as the Hollywood interpretation, so there are a lot of different perceptions of the Warforged.
Our party’s artificer is a warforged named HP Envy 6055e All-In-One Wireless Color Printer, or HP for short. The character is really cool, as he’s supposed to be the “key” to this massive prison maze the basically empire Godeye has that no one has ever gotten out of (minus my character, but that ain’t public knowledge), and his character and mine have face paint nights, it’s very fun.
Most people play Warforged like they're robots with little emotion. I don't really like that. I played this Warforged that was created by a Cult of Crafting trying to build a Messiah. My character was convinced he would become this Chosen One and was super conceited about it. Unfortunately, he died in his first encounter. He didn't even do anything wrong, I just rolled really poorly. A Hellhound attacked and I failed the Dex save. DM rolls max damage. Crit fail on saving throw. D&D is dumb sometimes.
I really wanted to be a damaged warforged who's memory was disconnected/destroyed, and who was questing to restore the memory. For whatever reason, the DM REALLY hated warforged, basically hated anything that wasn't standard 2.5 options. I never got my amnesiac warforged character.
3.15714 or Pi for short, is a warforged, that used to work at mine. But after an incident where he got damaged. (including a rock to the head that turned his pinery serial code to 110012) He became a little quirky, figuring out how to play music and became a bard to help inspire the other miners. 8ir-MS2 (8th iteration robot-model series 2 or 8er. He was once a human city guardsmen from a small village with a werewolf problem. After an accident involving a mysterious explosion, his body was “re-purposed“ to create a warforged barbarian class, capable of fighting werewolves without being infected. Mark Tres Oh, warforged originally created to fight in warforged Gladiatori battles. But after an incident, in which a young child fell into the arena, the warforged was considered a disgrace for protecting the child, instead of continuing to fight. Thrown away by its original inventor, to be forgotten it was instead reactivated and rebuilt by the young child, it saved. These are just three Warforged Characters I put together. (unfortunately, the rest of them are part of a campaign on creating of a evil warforged empire.) But if anybody wants to use these these backstory ideas go right ahead. I only ask that you leave a comment of which one you want to use.
I'm working on a Disney princess style charachter (man in drag with amazing voice). So far they are a bard/ranger with high performance and animal handling. Any recommendations???
My buddy is playing a warforged Barbarian called "Titan" but took a sudden left turn at Albuquerque and became a prostitute, creating the Whoreforged....and forcing me to write Canon legislation on how sex work in a mercenary frontier setting would work.
I love Warforged! The one I've played was similarily named Guardian and they were an Oath of the Ancients Paladin. And in my current campaign, one of my players and I created a human cyborg society (setting is Spelljammers mixed with homebrew and really any other setting I like) but basically depending on how far along in their transition to full on Terminator, they change from Human to Warforged (in terms of stats for race). Their society is on a large colony ship (think starting colony ship from the Outer Worlds) with many ships attached to it (think the Flotilla from Mass Effect) and they worship their ships now sentient Ai as the Divine Engine. Its easy to think of them as a mix of the Adeptus Mechanicus from 40k and the Brotherhood of Steel from fallout. They're obsessed and focused on gaining knew technology to upgrade themselves and further enhance and repair their Ship. They are the known in my setting to be the masters of engineering, mechanics, and artificing, although their numbers are fairly low. They are relatively new from a timeline perspective, but they have made a lasting impact already.
I think my favorite Warforged was Beatbox, the Lyrical Thaumaturge Bard. Out to train his illest of skillests, protect his rep, and learn all he could about how to drop lyrical bombs like it were Cyre's final days... based off Nagamitsu from Samurai Champloo. Had to drop him because it was difficult to freestyle at the drop of a hat so often, though he did manage to literally rap up a storm (Call Lightning) on a rival before he "retired".
I played a soulbound doll witch once. It gave me nightmares. So, carefully? Probably my favorite behind the L/N antipaladin. But yeah, maybe try not to push too hard into unfamiliar mindsets.
I play my warforged like a less kill-happy HK-47 from SWTOR. His name is Nick because he suffered a memory failure and someone in the party asked if he had a nickname.
I played a Warforged known as Allen (A-113-N). He was an artificer who saw the world has being held back by their flesh, but knew the value of such a thing, so he turned his powers to dealing with those who threatened the balance of life. He wore a plague doctor outfit, talked like a 1920s radioman, and used his high skill in medicine and artificer powers to cure diseases and afflictions as he could, and beating down threats when he couldn't science them away.
I have a character who acts similar to the first, but for very different reasons. Claya is a drow who’s been through some stuff. She accidentally killed her best friend at the age of eight, and then heard her half sister speaking of her execution. Really, her half sister was trying to save her, but from her perspective her sister was vouching to kill her, so she fled the Underdark and took shelter in a community of outcasts who, while not knowing her past as she was too scared to open up about it, took her in immediately. She became friends with Nemeïa, a teifling and also another one of my characters, and they quickly became best friends. Then one day someone threatened Nemeïa to get something out of Claya, and she hated how easily someone was able to control her. She then attempted to cut off all her attachments, but couldn’t cut off Nemeïa, so she learned to be a rogue so she could protect her. Then one day, she and Nemeïa end up in some sort of fight, and Claya accidentally kills Nemeïa while trying to shoot someone else (when the sneak attack damage maxes, but you shoot your beat friend. Oof). This is where I consider multiclassing into a barbarian, as she basically rages and kills everyone else around her, then proceeds to burn all the bodies, starting with Nemeïa’s. She then is left wandering around, not doing too much but getting some gold with her skills as a rogue. Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, Nemeïa gave Claya some sunglasses and a veil to help with her sunlight sensitivity. Fast forward a few years, she notices a Kender being very friendly with the locals in a town, and follows her. A young boy tries to grab a knife from the woman, and the Kender kills him without so much as hesitating. Then she notices Claya watching her in the shadows, and immediately confronts her. They end up talking a bit before Claya suggests not being like fifteen feet away from the dead boy and they head back to Mania, the Kender’s, house. Then someone starts screaming. Mania locks the door, and Claya basically says she doesn’t care if someone is here, just not to lie to her like she’s stupid or something. Mania then introduces Claya to her captive, Morrigan, who clearly had been being tortured. Low and behold, Morrigan is actually Claya’s half sister Chayla. It’s at this point I might want to mention that Morrigan is a Dream Elf, or a Kalashtar Elf (yes, I homebrewed the race. Also a note, Dream Elves look like Half-Elves). Morrigan communicated telepathically with Claya, who immediately outs her and starts arguing with her over the whole execution thing. Yeah, things don’t go well for Morrigan, who changed her name to Morrigan and now goes by that. I haven’t written her backstory past that, but she is going to become very manipulative and develop a god complex and superiority complex. And she torture Morrigan not only out of revenge, but also to try and forget her trauma. She really only cares for herself, she wouldn’t let herself get close enough to Mania to ever call her a friend, not that Mania would call her a friend either, and overall will act very similar to the first character here.
I used that first art piece for an npc in my home game. lol In my game, he's named Jasper Nox, but also goes by "Proxy". He's the warforged estate manager for a rich family who run a warforged labor coal mine. He's a shrewd and cunning manipulator who convinced and paid the party to kill the head of the family so he, Mr. Nox, could assume his identity and estate in full.
I had a giant golem warforged barbarian the size of a wall. Aptly named.... Wall. He used 2 shields and basically would just punch the living shit out of the enemy with the shields or literally run them over like a fucking tank.
Went down a similar path of the "creation of a missing wizard" trope. But instead was one of several warforged servants of a group of missing legendary adventurers, each created to be companions of their respective adventurer partners. Mine was Bandit, a Gunslinger/Assassin Who carried several pistols, and even a breakdown rifle concealed within his mechanical body. A perfect way to slip deadly weapons past guards.
I'm currently playing two warfogwd characters. One is a my kenku rogue from a previous campaign that accidentally got put into a crystal construct, who only speaks in monotone but is very physically expressive. She doesn't fully remember her past, so she ended up becoming a grave cleric, but that reveal is gonna be fun when it does come out. My other one is basically an awakened pile of garbage that became a ranger. They've lived alone most of their life and have no idea how to actually interact with anything other than the raccoons that visit the garbage heap, but they've stumbled into a group of friends who try to do weird things like help people. I just love playing weird little guys.
Personal idea I wanna run: Woodforged Manny the Woodforged is a tailor's mannequin turned warforged that has the phylactery of a lich shoved into the compartment in his chest that, during his life pre-sentience, was used as a stowing location for the tailor's sewing kit. Drawing on the souls in the phylactery allows Manny to multiclass into any role he needs to. Warlock patrons contact him in an effort to collect on the stored souls' bargain(s) & Manny likes to help where he can. Some celestials see him as an abomination of nature where some demons/wizards want to study and replicate him for military purposes. His party just wants his help in slaying the BBEG.
I wanna play one where (because warforged don't exactly die naturally) their main objective is to find some sort of magic potion or something that'll allow them to die. Sorta like revenant in Apex Legends.
I recently played a warforged from a war long since over, recently reactivated by the BBEG after the party beat him as a boss he joined them as a companion. He's a grizzled veteran whose goal is to write a book about all of his exploits. For I quote "To have my name and those lost remembered until the end of time." He follows the parry as their front line tank, his boisterous, confident, and believes he and his compatriots can do anything they set their mind to. He's constantly pushing them to better themselves in some way or another. But his old gears are wearing down he needs frequent breaks, and oil changes to not lock up in combat.
Ive made 2 warforged in my time and both where alot of fun. The first i made with my partner as they wanted a Spores Druid. They thought that it would be interesting to play an “unnatural” creature perverting life and death with necromancy using nature magics. Thus the warforged was born, covered in mycelium and bone. The second was a purposeful backup for a Gnome Artificer of mine who liked making automatons and would walk around with 2 copies of himself(replacing the homunculus and the Battle Companion). If ever in the situation of his death his soul would be transferred to an advanced automaton where he would live once more as a metal man. This also let me continue to play an artificer but let me change my subclass from Battle smith to Armourer having the armour be integrated into the warforgeds body
As a warforged main I approve. I generally use the Juggernaut variant when I want to lean to the mote stoic, robotic side. Juggernaut Warforged are taller than all other variants, larger too. But they have significantly decreased emotional drive and are closer to machine than other warforged Warforged are living constructs, think of the warforged as a balancing act between both words. Juggernauts are more construct than living. During 3rd edition I think they were prestige class, upgraded from regular warforged. Yet they had Adamantine Plate armor as prerequisite. I followed that but just have the adamantine shattered and corroded, massive holes from eldritch cannons and moss growing over the rust. Mu juggernaut was ancient, like if it were eberron he was there the first founding and served Galifar 1st. Just lost in the wars and got revived when one of the PCs tried using revivify on a flower that grew on his back. Personality is boomer and grumpy, lost and alone, warforged seeking purpose in warless eberron.
I had a warforged named "No-Name, Son of Man," who was repaired wholesale, to the point of becoming a new person, by someone who literally had no name, as it was stolen from him. He had no name to give the warforged, and the warforged considered him his new parent. Thus, No-Name, Son of Man. He got to debate whether he was actually alive with a dragon once, and claimed that organics mass-produced themselves more than they ever did his kind.
I’m playing a warforged named Tub right now and he’s one of my favorite characters. Basically just an animated furnace, he’s a forge domain cleric that always has a warm flame burning inside him. He protects children and gives the warmest hugs.
I've been dieing to play this character. A warforge who started it's life as a auto hammer gollum In a forge goddesses temple. But one day he had awoken. The goddess of the forge brings him to life, but he is crazed. Obsessed even to build the greatest armor the plane has ever seen. But not just to build the armor but to be the armor. I'd start as a forge domain cleric to get some early utility. But quickly follow the path of a artificer armorer. It will slowly build itself up crafting new armor and components for itself. Seeing it's party members as simply a good way to further his own progress to becoming the best armor.
0-T6 - or, rather, Otis. He made a deal with a Fey Lady for a soul after he was released from the war. This led him to gain a soul, whih is like the key component to feeling. (unbeknownst to him the soul of this dead necromancer)
I’m playing a warforged rouge,but he’s been stylized into a gunslinger. The reason he’s a rouge is because of the assassin level for rouge makes him pretty good for bounty hunting
There's a warforged artificer in one of my campaigns and it just works so well. He's technically just a head that worked as a sort of steampunk GPS on board a skyship for a few hundred years. He was a humanoid at first, but his body was confiscated during a prison stint, so he built an entirely new spider-centaur thing complete with a magical scrap cannon and a turret suitable for a small PC (like my goblin rogue). The things he comes up with are nuts and add a ton of utility and chaos to the campaign.
Emotion "be not" related to idioms. Incapability to understand sarcasm or metaphors is not representative of a robot. What could happen is more about how the character doesn't feel moved by the analogy or doesn't feel like it matters even though it makes perfect sense linguistically. An autistic person with this trait might have difficulty relating the elements of a metaphor or analogy to the situation at hand not because they don't get the similarity, but because of the infinite possibilities and details that don't align. Alternatively, another one might be so good at recognizing patterns that they can simplify and find analogies in creative ways that make even more sense than the ones you use in your life. Then there's the robot who would see both the pattern you see and the other elements, thus capable of making 1000 more analogies, maybe some even better than yours, but the rest of the data just murders your argument. Emotion is just being bound by scarce data randomly picked and dependent on the life of the individual. So... the opposite of logic to a point, but... you can think of them as capable of seeing emotion as a variable, being even better at insight because they know so much about emotion, as much as they know about everything and can recognise patterns much better than normal. So yeah, no heart bot? Unrealistic. It can even be deceptive enough barred by its dexterity to roleplay it well enough and they should, for extra measure, know if they are doing well or not as it should be easy to tell, like rolling insight on themselves and getting advantage because it's themselves. Not succeeding means distraction or it's a hard one. Possibly both and even sometimes pressure as processing the data becomes difficult and making difficult choices can be exhausting mentally. But you know the drill, it's fantasy and your idea of what a mechanical being should be, feel or not is up to how you build your world and your understanding of actual real world psychology and how you choose to implement it. It can be very counterintuitive, fyi.
Maxx a warforged who pretends to be piloted by squirrels in color coded suits. Imagine squirrels living an anime life while other people just see squirrels. Maxx just plays along and you get squirrel screams as they ride limbs into battle.
My favorite warforged was an automaton built by dwarves to assist in a Forge, but was then abandoned, so he continued to work and maintain this Forge for thousands of years, eventually gaining the attention of Tharmekhûl, who gave him the powers of a Forge Cleric, but the Automaton was too dumb to realize who it was that gave him powers and thought the Forge was his diety and caller her The Mother Forge.
Warforged is my favorite also. I played one named Box. He was a prototype of Warforged making him a foot and a half tall. He was reworked as a toy and given to a girl of a rich family. One night his owner said the words that sets him to sleep mode weather he likes it or not (only her voice and words do this no one else could). When he woke up he was in this storage box in the crumbled remains of the mansion. His mission was to find Matilda and make sure she was ok. He melted the hearts of everyone because he acted like a small child and could get a lot of people to do what he asked with his cuteness (he saw one of the other players saddened by not getting a deck of many. He sat one night making him a Cards of Box. It had stuff like "Box will find you the nicest rock he can find" and "Box will tell you a story"). Everyone in the group would say if anything happened to him they would destroy the universe in anger.
I ran a madcap (they started in an insane asylum) campaign where my players all did 1d20 for their stats and rolled for everything during character creation. One of my players ended up as a pink and purple, discarded sex doll named Dildozer
Me and my gf just created a combo with a warforged. I'm playing a knome artificer that found and fixed her character which is a warforged warlock. I am also playing as her patron and we thought it would be cool to flavor her eldrich blast as an arm cannon.
I have warforged that was built by dwarves and "raised" by a forge cleric so he took up that mantle when he left his dwarven hold. Now through his journeys he learned the ways of the totem barbarian (bear) and is now an important figure in the harpers of his region.
Check out my Warforged on Unbalanced Encounters: Rally. unbalancedencounters.com
If you love living constructs, you'll love Oblivion Oddities. There's multiple different kinds of Living Constructs. In Oblivion Oddities, there's a class called Crafters. Certain Crafters have learned new things & achieved new levels. They can make living constructs at high levels. Not only that they can make temporary constructs in combat on the fly through their "Forging" actions & abilities.
Living Constructs are about a 10th of the global population & Lycanthropes are about 50% of the global population.
I will listen to this.
Any chance you could pop those on your YT channel?
I’m working on a funny one. A scarecrow brought to life by lightning who’s now part of a circle of fire druids.
I love them
Hey! Great minds think alike! I had a similar idea, except my warforged scarecrow is an oath of the ancients paladin who just wants to help look after the local farms. He wields a pitchfork (trident) and a pallet (shield). He is the Pallet-in, guardian of the fields!
You should summon fire crows than it would be perfect
yo this reminds of fiddlesticks, you could make an evil scarecrow, perhaps a being with a soul of a old siner, who made a dark bargain to live again at the cost of his freedom. Actualy, he could be a farmer, that got killed by some biger farmer that took him as a treat to their monopoly because often times he ofered food to those in need, taking people away from their reach, and now comes back to life to make justice under a moraly wrong path or... avenge yourself, and end them forever...
I'm running a scarecrow vengeance paladin he's looking to make the hag that made him a red smeer on the floor (hags make scarecrow golems by ripping the soul out of a sentient being and shoving it into the golem and bending it to there will (he's broken free from that control obviously)
I played a warforged battlesmith whose singular goal was to unlock the secrets of his own construction so that he could build his own child and be a dad.
All his magic in the early game was flavoured around tinkering with his own magical body parts, and then later it turned into building and improving prototypes.
He had a homunculus called Gizmo and a series of increasingly bipedal steel defenders called Mark I, Mark II, etc. Basically each time the steel defender went down in combat he built a different design and changed the name.
Eventually I switched out the homunculus invocation for headband of intellect and put it on the steel defender, effectively combining the body of Mark VI with the mind of Gizmo, finally making his son, Mark Gizmo.
Awww.
that’s an amazing story
@@gappyconscience683 Thank you! Funnily enough, my wife and I dropped out of that campaign when our daughter was born!
That’s so nice
My warforged forge cleric is the same, but he's trying to make a partner.
I played part of an all-Warforged party in the Eberron setting. Being inhuman was a LOT of fun, we had an absurd sense of humor.
Oh, and as a party having no need to eat, sleep, or breathe made many "challenges" a moot point. At first it drove our DM crazy, but he changed his viewpoint and adapted. Meatbags don't grind and squeak after sandstorms the way we did.
Meatbags just don’t understand the hustle.
I had a draconic ancestry warforged sorcerer planned for a game that never happened. The explanation for the draconic powers was that dragon bones and scales were used in its construction
The Warforged I played (a replacement character after previous one died) introduced himself while using a disguise self spell to look human under his mask. He then attempted to drink a beer which just want all down his front as he didn't have a real mouth. He then cleared this up with Prestidigitation like nothing had happened. He was called Sven and was an arcane trickster. The group had a good laugh about it and accepted him quickly.
I played a warforged paladin one time and I based him on saint 14 from destiny it was very fun and I think it’s my favorite race to play since then
Just an fyi, if you wanna fry it there’s a home brew module for 5e called Dungeons and Destiny. It gets updated sometimes. Haven’t looked at it in a while, but last I checked they were working on adding stasis. This was right after beyond light.
The first one can be a good example of how to play an evil character without pulling a "it's what my character would do" and being an asshole to your party.
Your party members are tools and good tools are hard to come by, so you want to keep them happy and on your side, which sometimes means making compromises like not burning down an orphanage.
You have to be willing to bend a bit or you'll break and get killed by your own tools, so make compromises.
You can in character be unhappy about it, but if you want to keep your tools with you, you need to work with them, not make them work for you
Came up with a Sasori inspired concept once. He was born human, and trained as an artificer when he was young, but as he grew older it became apparent he was incredibly ill and was progressively getting weaker and weaker. So he made himself both a steel defender he named Hanzo and a new mechanical body that looked just like his human one, proxy skin and all. He transitioned his soul from his dying human body to his new, stronger warforged body and no he has spell firing guns in his arms and swords hidden in his legs. Also he's not sure if he still needs to breathe or eat, he hasn't pooped but he doesn't feel heavier, bur he's also to nervous to try going without food or diving into the ocean without some kind of lifeline
I played a warforged barbarian that went by 2 names, Bastion and Bulwark, bastion (not raging) was kind and calm, but bulwark (raging) was silent and sadistic only caring about his next kill. I did this to explain his reaction to the last war, bastion is the person after the war, but bulwark was the monstrous construct that took so many lives.
Fuck, a robot with ptsd
That's so awful and so cool.
Sooo... Bastion from Overwatch was inspiration for this character, yes?
My first warforged was basically just a high-fantasy Robocop. He was a warforged juggernaut with a flail and kite shield with the designation 05-CR, or “Oscar” as the party came to call him, because he was basically made out of battlefield trash packed around a steel replica of a human skeleton. Naturally he was a Paladin, and my DM told me he was the best and most lovable case of “Lawful Stupid” he’d ever seen.
Right now I’m working on one for a kind of diesel punk fantasy that’s gonna play like HK-47. Calling everyone meatbags, starting every sentence by announcing what kind of sentence it’s supposed to be, ie, “Statement: Meatbags never fail to disgust me.”
I've mentioned this guy a few times before. My favorite character Rook. Rook was a warforged barbarian. Initially built for war, after his war was finished he just wandered struggling to find a purpose until he was picked up by a mercenary group called the black fang. Primarily a group of dragon hunters it wasn't long until rook picked up some weird abilities like a dragon mark from a metallic dragon who hired the group to hunt down a chromatic rival. However his band was attacked by the dragon cult with rook being the only survivor, vowing to hunt down every last cultist and butcher them
I had an elemental warforged golem(even a 3D model that I made), our DM encouraged us on making any homebrew characters. Mine was a 9 feet iron golem(that was an inspiration from Minecraft) created by a long gone artificer.
Backstory of my character:
The golem was made by an artificer for his son as a sort of guardian, he was powered by a mana crystal that when used too often it will overheat and slow down the golem.
The Golem did his job well...a little too well at least, the artificer unknowingly made enemies due to their jealousy of him making such "machine". One night the house of the artificer was was broken in, the artificer stood at the ready while his son was being protected by the golem itself.
The assassins shot a poisened arrow at the artificer but it was blocked by the iron golem, that is where the golem went on a rampage and gruesomely attacked the assassins without mercy. Both the artificer and the son saw this and was terrified at his creation, it turns out at that moment the golem gained sentience and looked down at the carnage that he made.
For the first time... he said something:
"... I'm sorry creator, I am defective, I wish to be uncreated at your behest" the golem went outside and then went to the plain fields of flowers waiting for his master.
Instead of uncreating him, his master exiled him or rather by his words "...you are free my creation...my son also shared my sentiment, but if you still wanted to protect him. Fight in the dark..."
The Golem still remembers that day...even 250 years later
I created a Warforged Tempest Cleric who was created by a Gnome Artificer as a project to aid a Citywatch Organization, with him being the first proper Warforged in the setting. At first, he was rather mechanical in nature, with him following his programming to protect and serve, though eventually he learned, becoming the party's moral compass...Along with this, his God was the one who gave him life, providing the power that keeps him running along with providing his magic, which was why he kept looking for ways to spread the word of the God of Elements and Weather. Due to him being one of the original Party Members who managed to survive (we had a tendency to lose a lot of Characters early on as some players made decisions that directly lead to it...) he often insures the other surviving party member, a Half-Elf Wizard is safe, worrying greatly about her after watching multiple companions perish.
My two favorite Warforged characters were Guardian (a druid with a tiny myconid as a pet/companion, that acted very similar to the robots from Laputa) and Rocko (full name: Rockolla. He was a bard that was created with the purpose of recoding songs so that his owner could listen to the same one on repeat for hours. After his owner died he ventured into the world with the purpose of learning how to truly compose a real song by himself, because although he had the theoretical knowledge needed to write music, his creations lacked the soul a living being could imbue into one. So, a bit like the Tinman from the Wizard of Oz)
My favorite Warforged is Koronir, who had a hive full of living bees crammed into his chest cavity by an insane tiefling named Belenth Aes'tir. As such, he became known as Beeforged.
What class was he? I assume swarm Druid, but If not I’m curious
Its kind of hilarious, I just played Descent into Avernus, and my Warforged was almost the exact opposite of Cassanova. My DM was pretty lenient with rulings, and wanted to run a power trip style of campaign, so we each got a boon of some sort. QuarryBorn was a Barbarian with Gauntlets of Ogre Strength. He ended up going all "my friends are my power," so by the end he was a Barb(Bear Totem 5)/Fighter (Champion 3)/Rogue(Scout 3)/Paladin (Oath of the Watchers 3). With the Sword of Zariel, in the final fight I ended up doing like 250 damage in one round, it was pretty wild. As a post module wrap up, our DM asked us what we'd be doing next, and I told her QB's next goal would be to find a smith that could make the sword a finesse weapon.
It was very fun getting to describe the physical differences attuning to the sword made.
I had an idea of a warforged rogue that was especially good at infiltrating castles because he was designed to look like the armor on the stands in the hallways of the castle
Eyyy. My favorite too. My favorite warforged memory was playing STOK. Or when he frenzied. S.T.O.K.E. Strategic and Tactical, Overwhelming, Killzone, Evaluation.
I'm currently playing an undead/reanimated warforged named Dante who was killed by his husband because of the BBEG cleric order. He was so pissed off by this that it got the attention of Nemesis, the God of revenge, who gave him a deal to be her cleric and in return he would get the opportunity to bring down hell on his still living ex and the church he used to serve. He's great fun actually I'm enjoying this option a lot. Warforged are a super important part of our post world flood/pirate campaign and it's been really cool.
Youre walking through the desert and you see a turtle on its back...
Love Warforged and the story they present, regardless of setting.
In my Tuesday game I'm playing a Warforged character who looks a bit too human. However, the Warforged body serves as a champion to the warlock patron which the soul made a pact with. It's a really interesting dynamic that's helped to explore my own intrusive thoughts and other mental issues.
How would you make Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld character Grandma Weatherwax in D&D?
I made a clockwork Warforged as some kind of automaton, he got acquired by a clockmaker
in a city without nature, the clockmaker also built small clockwork animals and as the man died, the warforged rebuilt himself in the manner his master would have done him, but he looks like a tree to complete the nature thing. He also built himself some company, a living turtle like well creature, like a walking fountain. His name is ACE and the clockwork critters find refuge in this tree like robot.
ACE stands for
Artificially Created Environment
with the companion (he's a battlesmith) called
CWF
clockwork fountain
One of my favorite NPCs I made was a war forged crime boss. The setting i’d made had warforged as weapons whos creation process was lost to time, but he ran a syndicate of warforged of all shapes and types. The campaign fell through, but I planned for him to eventually upgrade his body with more appendages and flight capabilities.
I am creating a Warforged that was built by Druids, meaning it is not made of metal, but of gemstones like Aquamarine. Basically a golem worth a fortune.
my favorite character is reboot they're an autognome, not a warforged but a construct nonetheless, they're motivation is that they are owned by one of the party members, they act in whatever way they believe would be in their owners best interest, however they have no morals and only act in whichever way is most efficient, meanwhile their owner is chaotic good and constantly stumbling to teach them good morals.
tldr: giving your character a pre-established dynamic with another character is very rewarding especially if you're playing a construct.
Depends on the construction style of origin. Like if your character was made vy dwarves, a magical means, clockwork, soul gem bound to a body, brain in a jar, enlightened small animal piloting a warforged mech suit
I'm playing a war forged made by a dwarf to help him in his elder years. Who is an armorer artificer. searching for an item stolen from his dead creator. While trying to do what his creator told him to and experience life once, he was no longer shackled by the responsibility of his creaors health.
You could play an eccentric genius as an Artificer Warforged who runs on carbonated beverages and loves shouting "SUPER!"
No, I'm sorry.
Warforged my beloved-
I'm currently writing costum lore for the warforged for a character that I'm playing cuz the setting isn't ebberon. It's basically all races of the materium alloying and creating the warforged to defend the materium against eldritch horrors which then ended in a last stand where reality was rewritten so that all of that shit never happened. But the warforged survived dur to a certain component that negates all reality altering influences.
My warforged is a 7ft tall juggernaut barbarian that seeks to kill everything that claims to be divine since his definition of a god requires a way more powerful being then any present in any DND setting
What the fuck!?
I made a warforged named Guardian about a year ago. He was a huge emotionless guard bot that was created by a demigod to defend his daughter.
He was a Paladin/Abjuration Wizard
Eeey I recognise that name. Casanova Frankenstien is the name of the villain in the movie Mystery Men :D
Love the Mystery Men reference!
Omg fancy robot 😮
Hey cinder, not sure if you’ll see this, but I had an idea for a character I really want to play. I really like to draw, it’s one of the things I’m good at, and I wanted to reflect my love for drawing in my character. The idea is that this character has the ability to bring there drawings to life. Weather they be weapons, monsters, or random objects. The problem is that there really aren’t any classes that can do what I want the character to do. Bard seems like the class that would want to have this kind of ability, but there magic is based in music and acting. Which doesn’t seem to fit with my idea at all.
I would love to get some feedback on this idea if you have time, cause I’m totally stuck on how to make this idea work.
You could ask your DM if you could do bard but swap an instrument for a calligraphy set and just narratively flavor your spells and abilities as quick sketches and the like. Creation bard subclass would likely be your best bet. Alternatively, depending on what you specifically want to create, you could maybe reflavor a different caster and see if you could use the calligraphy set like a spell focus. Maybe a cleric blessed by a deity who loves art, creation, or self expression. Maybe a wizard who creates elaborate drawings instead of arcane symbols and runes. Flavor can cover a lot if your DM is cooperative.
Bro… you mean to tell me you roleplayed as an Iron Golem?!. XD
in my current game there's a warforged gunslinger who pull an Ang n was buried under rubble for about a century n was left over from a long gone war between gnomes using autognomes yo attack the surface n the surface dwellers creating warforged to fight their war. He doesn't understand y we let people live sometimes n thus we can never leave him alone with a prisoner. He looks like a steampunk Robocop with big rivets n heavy armour plating. his pistol holsters into a slot on his leg n he has a built in retractable long sword in his arm.
Currently playing an auto gnome sorcerer in a spelljammer campaign. He’s charismatic from a logical standpoint, as he doesn’t quite understand “organic life forms” in some aspects. He is curious of them, and is fairly observant. He is also fond of tools and giving things a purpose, as he is on a quest to find his as he doesn’t remember his creator or where he came from. He thinks finding their creator will help him find purpose, as he must’ve been made for something. Right?
Ooh this was nice advice bc I've been trying to make one (the one I originally came up with got yoinked by my last dm for a inn-keepers husband lol. Idrm tho lol)
Gotta figure out my new guy now. Which is fine, I've been tryna decide which War-forged subclass to give him (like, out of the 3 main Big Boy tank , Fighter, and lil shite respectfully)
Dude, Casanova Frankenstein looks dope as heck!
A lot of people didnt really allow them because they were an Ebberon thing. But lately it seems the autognome sort of greased the wheels, and I might try to play one at some point.
Casanova Frankenstein loll I love mystery men
One of my top characters I want to play is also a Warforged Sorcerer. Similar origins to Bastion from Overwatch, but was broke down in the Feywild. They hence become a Wild Magic Sorcerer
A collage of eloquence bard named "Gender"
I have a funny one. His name is NOK. His creator was a powerful wizard/artificer whose’s task by the city was to capture/stop a demon and not just kill its avatar so I can go back and plan again. He created a demon core and planted it into NOK’s chest as a power source but as a golem to protect it. The creator was killed in the imprisonment process and now NOK has a demon inside him. Homebrew a few things, campaign is 2 years in, and we’re at level 17. NOK is 3lvl Hexblade Warlock and everytime he summons his pact weapon he draws from the demon’s energy, mechanics wise to discourage this is I roll a d20, if I roll a 1 the DM takes over my character and the demon temporarily takes over. A crack is made in the core and my alignment which started at Lawful Good moves diagonally. Once I have fail at Chaotic Evil Demon permanently breaks out, so 3 strikes and new character or lose those levels. The other levels are 11 into renegade fighter which was NOK’s original model/ design and 3 into phantom rouge because my creator’s soul was also partially trapped in the Demon Core. Currently at chaotic evil and the group is extremely concerned due to NOK starting out saving everyone he could with in reason to now just pulling out The Book Of Vile Deeds in a bar and start reading aloud is he gets annoyed.
Warforged are awesome, but I'm disappointed that there is apparently a lot of hate for them in the community for not being "fantasy" enough, dispite them basically just being sentient metal golems
i wanna play a life cleric called Aiden one day.
the remnant of a small civil war where he'd have served not in combat but as a field medic. left lying at the base of a tree sundered by a canon and picked up by ilmater as he tended to hus broken body.
think of a decently stocky build but with tears and breaks all over that have been filled in with gold (cuz of the thing in a culture where broken things are fixed with gold to show the value they still have)
I'm on episode 20 of rally and guard and Mr. Spinx are definitely my favorite. Also have you see the man with no boots?
I mean, it’s kinda understandable why Casanova Frankenstein got like that.
How would you feel if you where basically a lab rat that went through a dimension of death.
Warforged are awesome, I’d love to play one
Warforged is also my favorite race 🤖.
This mystery man, sorry, warforge sounds familiar
A warforge I have in the wings is reflavored to be a Golem. Think Shale from Dragon Age. Found amongst the treasures of a dragon's horde, this golem was imbued with the magic of the dragon's lair becoming a draconic sorcerer
Did you name your character after the bad guy from Mystery Men?
Hahaha yep
Casanova Frankenstein is back, unt Casanova Frankenstein is planning something... a little bit different. Kaboom
Yhe Warforged of my world are basically an analogy to AI and the arguments in the modern day. You'll get everything from Astroboy to Terminator to The Iron Giant to Autopilot from WALL-E in terms of philosophy or outlook on life. oldest among them are around 165 years old, produced during a revolutionary war. Whether it was by virtue of a broken circuit, by virtue of the LLM reaching a point of sentience, or a robot imitating sentience in some way, Warforged all reached that point, a population of 5,000,000 in a world with a total population of 1.5 billion.
Like I said before, they are an analogy for AI in the real world as well as the Hollywood interpretation, so there are a lot of different perceptions of the Warforged.
Our party’s artificer is a warforged named HP Envy 6055e All-In-One Wireless Color Printer, or HP for short. The character is really cool, as he’s supposed to be the “key” to this massive prison maze the basically empire Godeye has that no one has ever gotten out of (minus my character, but that ain’t public knowledge), and his character and mine have face paint nights, it’s very fun.
Most people play Warforged like they're robots with little emotion. I don't really like that.
I played this Warforged that was created by a Cult of Crafting trying to build a Messiah. My character was convinced he would become this Chosen One and was super conceited about it. Unfortunately, he died in his first encounter. He didn't even do anything wrong, I just rolled really poorly. A Hellhound attacked and I failed the Dex save. DM rolls max damage. Crit fail on saving throw.
D&D is dumb sometimes.
I really wanted to be a damaged warforged who's memory was disconnected/destroyed, and who was questing to restore the memory. For whatever reason, the DM REALLY hated warforged, basically hated anything that wasn't standard 2.5 options. I never got my amnesiac warforged character.
3.15714 or Pi for short, is a warforged, that used to work at mine. But after an incident where he got damaged.
(including a rock to the head that turned his pinery serial code to 110012)
He became a little quirky, figuring out how to play music and became a bard to help inspire the other miners.
8ir-MS2 (8th iteration robot-model series 2 or 8er.
He was once a human city guardsmen from a small village with a werewolf problem.
After an accident involving a mysterious explosion, his body was “re-purposed“ to create a warforged barbarian class, capable of fighting werewolves without being infected.
Mark Tres
Oh, warforged originally created to fight in warforged Gladiatori battles. But after an incident, in which a young child fell into the arena, the warforged was considered a disgrace for protecting the child, instead of continuing to fight.
Thrown away by its original inventor, to be forgotten it was instead reactivated and rebuilt by the young child, it saved.
These are just three Warforged Characters I put together.
(unfortunately, the rest of them are part of a campaign on creating of a evil warforged empire.)
But if anybody wants to use these these backstory ideas go right ahead. I only ask that you leave a comment of which one you want to use.
I'm working on a Disney princess style charachter (man in drag with amazing voice). So far they are a bard/ranger with high performance and animal handling. Any recommendations???
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Go play a Warforged Wizard named TH-3515.
Thesis.
My buddy is playing a warforged Barbarian called "Titan" but took a sudden left turn at Albuquerque and became a prostitute, creating the Whoreforged....and forcing me to write Canon legislation on how sex work in a mercenary frontier setting would work.
I love Warforged! The one I've played was similarily named Guardian and they were an Oath of the Ancients Paladin. And in my current campaign, one of my players and I created a human cyborg society (setting is Spelljammers mixed with homebrew and really any other setting I like) but basically depending on how far along in their transition to full on Terminator, they change from Human to Warforged (in terms of stats for race).
Their society is on a large colony ship (think starting colony ship from the Outer Worlds) with many ships attached to it (think the Flotilla from Mass Effect) and they worship their ships now sentient Ai as the Divine Engine. Its easy to think of them as a mix of the Adeptus Mechanicus from 40k and the Brotherhood of Steel from fallout. They're obsessed and focused on gaining knew technology to upgrade themselves and further enhance and repair their Ship. They are the known in my setting to be the masters of engineering, mechanics, and artificing, although their numbers are fairly low. They are relatively new from a timeline perspective, but they have made a lasting impact already.
I think my favorite Warforged was Beatbox, the Lyrical Thaumaturge Bard. Out to train his illest of skillests, protect his rep, and learn all he could about how to drop lyrical bombs like it were Cyre's final days... based off Nagamitsu from Samurai Champloo.
Had to drop him because it was difficult to freestyle at the drop of a hat so often, though he did manage to literally rap up a storm (Call Lightning) on a rival before he "retired".
I played a soulbound doll witch once. It gave me nightmares. So, carefully? Probably my favorite behind the L/N antipaladin. But yeah, maybe try not to push too hard into unfamiliar mindsets.
I play my warforged like a less kill-happy HK-47 from SWTOR. His name is Nick because he suffered a memory failure and someone in the party asked if he had a nickname.
Classic Realms doesn't have Warforged, but I did play an astromech in Star Wars D6 and that was fun. He was lazy but definitely not evil.
I played a Warforged known as Allen (A-113-N). He was an artificer who saw the world has being held back by their flesh, but knew the value of such a thing, so he turned his powers to dealing with those who threatened the balance of life.
He wore a plague doctor outfit, talked like a 1920s radioman, and used his high skill in medicine and artificer powers to cure diseases and afflictions as he could, and beating down threats when he couldn't science them away.
I have a character who acts similar to the first, but for very different reasons.
Claya is a drow who’s been through some stuff. She accidentally killed her best friend at the age of eight, and then heard her half sister speaking of her execution. Really, her half sister was trying to save her, but from her perspective her sister was vouching to kill her, so she fled the Underdark and took shelter in a community of outcasts who, while not knowing her past as she was too scared to open up about it, took her in immediately. She became friends with Nemeïa, a teifling and also another one of my characters, and they quickly became best friends. Then one day someone threatened Nemeïa to get something out of Claya, and she hated how easily someone was able to control her. She then attempted to cut off all her attachments, but couldn’t cut off Nemeïa, so she learned to be a rogue so she could protect her.
Then one day, she and Nemeïa end up in some sort of fight, and Claya accidentally kills Nemeïa while trying to shoot someone else (when the sneak attack damage maxes, but you shoot your beat friend. Oof). This is where I consider multiclassing into a barbarian, as she basically rages and kills everyone else around her, then proceeds to burn all the bodies, starting with Nemeïa’s. She then is left wandering around, not doing too much but getting some gold with her skills as a rogue. Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, Nemeïa gave Claya some sunglasses and a veil to help with her sunlight sensitivity.
Fast forward a few years, she notices a Kender being very friendly with the locals in a town, and follows her. A young boy tries to grab a knife from the woman, and the Kender kills him without so much as hesitating. Then she notices Claya watching her in the shadows, and immediately confronts her. They end up talking a bit before Claya suggests not being like fifteen feet away from the dead boy and they head back to Mania, the Kender’s, house.
Then someone starts screaming. Mania locks the door, and Claya basically says she doesn’t care if someone is here, just not to lie to her like she’s stupid or something. Mania then introduces Claya to her captive, Morrigan, who clearly had been being tortured. Low and behold, Morrigan is actually Claya’s half sister Chayla. It’s at this point I might want to mention that Morrigan is a Dream Elf, or a Kalashtar Elf (yes, I homebrewed the race. Also a note, Dream Elves look like Half-Elves). Morrigan communicated telepathically with Claya, who immediately outs her and starts arguing with her over the whole execution thing. Yeah, things don’t go well for Morrigan, who changed her name to Morrigan and now goes by that.
I haven’t written her backstory past that, but she is going to become very manipulative and develop a god complex and superiority complex. And she torture Morrigan not only out of revenge, but also to try and forget her trauma. She really only cares for herself, she wouldn’t let herself get close enough to Mania to ever call her a friend, not that Mania would call her a friend either, and overall will act very similar to the first character here.
I used that first art piece for an npc in my home game. lol In my game, he's named Jasper Nox, but also goes by "Proxy". He's the warforged estate manager for a rich family who run a warforged labor coal mine. He's a shrewd and cunning manipulator who convinced and paid the party to kill the head of the family so he, Mr. Nox, could assume his identity and estate in full.
I had a giant golem warforged barbarian the size of a wall. Aptly named.... Wall. He used 2 shields and basically would just punch the living shit out of the enemy with the shields or literally run them over like a fucking tank.
In the campaign I run, there's a warforged called Worcestershire (pronounced WAR-chester-shire), he's similar to Guard, the name gets me every time 😆
Went down a similar path of the "creation of a missing wizard" trope. But instead was one of several warforged servants of a group of missing legendary adventurers, each created to be companions of their respective adventurer partners. Mine was Bandit, a Gunslinger/Assassin Who carried several pistols, and even a breakdown rifle concealed within his mechanical body. A perfect way to slip deadly weapons past guards.
I'm currently playing two warfogwd characters. One is a my kenku rogue from a previous campaign that accidentally got put into a crystal construct, who only speaks in monotone but is very physically expressive. She doesn't fully remember her past, so she ended up becoming a grave cleric, but that reveal is gonna be fun when it does come out.
My other one is basically an awakened pile of garbage that became a ranger. They've lived alone most of their life and have no idea how to actually interact with anything other than the raccoons that visit the garbage heap, but they've stumbled into a group of friends who try to do weird things like help people.
I just love playing weird little guys.
Personal idea I wanna run: Woodforged
Manny the Woodforged is a tailor's mannequin turned warforged that has the phylactery of a lich shoved into the compartment in his chest that, during his life pre-sentience, was used as a stowing location for the tailor's sewing kit. Drawing on the souls in the phylactery allows Manny to multiclass into any role he needs to. Warlock patrons contact him in an effort to collect on the stored souls' bargain(s) & Manny likes to help where he can. Some celestials see him as an abomination of nature where some demons/wizards want to study and replicate him for military purposes. His party just wants his help in slaying the BBEG.
I wanna play one where (because warforged don't exactly die naturally) their main objective is to find some sort of magic potion or something that'll allow them to die. Sorta like revenant in Apex Legends.
I recently played a warforged from a war long since over, recently reactivated by the BBEG after the party beat him as a boss he joined them as a companion. He's a grizzled veteran whose goal is to write a book about all of his exploits. For I quote "To have my name and those lost remembered until the end of time." He follows the parry as their front line tank, his boisterous, confident, and believes he and his compatriots can do anything they set their mind to. He's constantly pushing them to better themselves in some way or another. But his old gears are wearing down he needs frequent breaks, and oil changes to not lock up in combat.
Ive made 2 warforged in my time and both where alot of fun.
The first i made with my partner as they wanted a Spores Druid. They thought that it would be interesting to play an “unnatural” creature perverting life and death with necromancy using nature magics. Thus the warforged was born, covered in mycelium and bone.
The second was a purposeful backup for a Gnome Artificer of mine who liked making automatons and would walk around with 2 copies of himself(replacing the homunculus and the Battle Companion). If ever in the situation of his death his soul would be transferred to an advanced automaton where he would live once more as a metal man. This also let me continue to play an artificer but let me change my subclass from Battle smith to Armourer having the armour be integrated into the warforgeds body
As a warforged main I approve.
I generally use the Juggernaut variant when I want to lean to the mote stoic, robotic side.
Juggernaut Warforged are taller than all other variants, larger too. But they have significantly decreased emotional drive and are closer to machine than other warforged
Warforged are living constructs, think of the warforged as a balancing act between both words. Juggernauts are more construct than living.
During 3rd edition I think they were prestige class, upgraded from regular warforged. Yet they had Adamantine Plate armor as prerequisite. I followed that but just have the adamantine shattered and corroded, massive holes from eldritch cannons and moss growing over the rust.
Mu juggernaut was ancient, like if it were eberron he was there the first founding and served Galifar 1st. Just lost in the wars and got revived when one of the PCs tried using revivify on a flower that grew on his back.
Personality is boomer and grumpy, lost and alone, warforged seeking purpose in warless eberron.
I had a warforged named "No-Name, Son of Man," who was repaired wholesale, to the point of becoming a new person, by someone who literally had no name, as it was stolen from him. He had no name to give the warforged, and the warforged considered him his new parent. Thus, No-Name, Son of Man. He got to debate whether he was actually alive with a dragon once, and claimed that organics mass-produced themselves more than they ever did his kind.
I’m playing a warforged named Tub right now and he’s one of my favorite characters. Basically just an animated furnace, he’s a forge domain cleric that always has a warm flame burning inside him. He protects children and gives the warmest hugs.
I've been dieing to play this character.
A warforge who started it's life as a auto hammer gollum In a forge goddesses temple. But one day he had awoken. The goddess of the forge brings him to life, but he is crazed. Obsessed even to build the greatest armor the plane has ever seen. But not just to build the armor but to be the armor.
I'd start as a forge domain cleric to get some early utility. But quickly follow the path of a artificer armorer.
It will slowly build itself up crafting new armor and components for itself.
Seeing it's party members as simply a good way to further his own progress to becoming the best armor.
0-T6 - or, rather, Otis. He made a deal with a Fey Lady for a soul after he was released from the war. This led him to gain a soul, whih is like the key component to feeling. (unbeknownst to him the soul of this dead necromancer)
I’m playing a warforged rouge,but he’s been stylized into a gunslinger. The reason he’s a rouge is because of the assassin level for rouge makes him pretty good for bounty hunting
There's a warforged artificer in one of my campaigns and it just works so well. He's technically just a head that worked as a sort of steampunk GPS on board a skyship for a few hundred years. He was a humanoid at first, but his body was confiscated during a prison stint, so he built an entirely new spider-centaur thing complete with a magical scrap cannon and a turret suitable for a small PC (like my goblin rogue). The things he comes up with are nuts and add a ton of utility and chaos to the campaign.
Emotion "be not" related to idioms.
Incapability to understand sarcasm or metaphors is not representative of a robot.
What could happen is more about how the character doesn't feel moved by the analogy or doesn't feel like it matters even though it makes perfect sense linguistically.
An autistic person with this trait might have difficulty relating the elements of a metaphor or analogy to the situation at hand not because they don't get the similarity, but because of the infinite possibilities and details that don't align.
Alternatively, another one might be so good at recognizing patterns that they can simplify and find analogies in creative ways that make even more sense than the ones you use in your life.
Then there's the robot who would see both the pattern you see and the other elements, thus capable of making 1000 more analogies, maybe some even better than yours, but the rest of the data just murders your argument. Emotion is just being bound by scarce data randomly picked and dependent on the life of the individual. So... the opposite of logic to a point, but... you can think of them as capable of seeing emotion as a variable, being even better at insight because they know so much about emotion, as much as they know about everything and can recognise patterns much better than normal.
So yeah, no heart bot? Unrealistic. It can even be deceptive enough barred by its dexterity to roleplay it well enough and they should, for extra measure, know if they are doing well or not as it should be easy to tell, like rolling insight on themselves and getting advantage because it's themselves. Not succeeding means distraction or it's a hard one. Possibly both and even sometimes pressure as processing the data becomes difficult and making difficult choices can be exhausting mentally.
But you know the drill, it's fantasy and your idea of what a mechanical being should be, feel or not is up to how you build your world and your understanding of actual real world psychology and how you choose to implement it. It can be very counterintuitive, fyi.
Maxx a warforged who pretends to be piloted by squirrels in color coded suits. Imagine squirrels living an anime life while other people just see squirrels. Maxx just plays along and you get squirrel screams as they ride limbs into battle.
My favorite warforged was an automaton built by dwarves to assist in a Forge, but was then abandoned, so he continued to work and maintain this Forge for thousands of years, eventually gaining the attention of Tharmekhûl, who gave him the powers of a Forge Cleric, but the Automaton was too dumb to realize who it was that gave him powers and thought the Forge was his diety and caller her The Mother Forge.
How do you feel about importing classes from Pathfinder into DnD? I really love Oracles, and as far as I know they aren't in 5e.
Warforged is my favorite also. I played one named Box. He was a prototype of Warforged making him a foot and a half tall. He was reworked as a toy and given to a girl of a rich family. One night his owner said the words that sets him to sleep mode weather he likes it or not (only her voice and words do this no one else could). When he woke up he was in this storage box in the crumbled remains of the mansion. His mission was to find Matilda and make sure she was ok. He melted the hearts of everyone because he acted like a small child and could get a lot of people to do what he asked with his cuteness (he saw one of the other players saddened by not getting a deck of many. He sat one night making him a Cards of Box. It had stuff like "Box will find you the nicest rock he can find" and "Box will tell you a story"). Everyone in the group would say if anything happened to him they would destroy the universe in anger.
Wasn't Casanova Frankenstein the villian from Mystery Men?
I ran a madcap (they started in an insane asylum) campaign where my players all did 1d20 for their stats and rolled for everything during character creation. One of my players ended up as a pink and purple, discarded sex doll named Dildozer
My first character was a warforged!! He's literally based on the "depressed 2b cosplayer with sombrero hat" meme
Me and my gf just created a combo with a warforged. I'm playing a knome artificer that found and fixed her character which is a warforged warlock. I am also playing as her patron and we thought it would be cool to flavor her eldrich blast as an arm cannon.
I have warforged that was built by dwarves and "raised" by a forge cleric so he took up that mantle when he left his dwarven hold. Now through his journeys he learned the ways of the totem barbarian (bear) and is now an important figure in the harpers of his region.
How would you go about playing a time traveller's assistant from the modern era stranded in a traditional D&D setting?
Casanova Frankenstein makes me think of the Mystery Men villain of the same name played by Geoffrey Rush