Comments on: Races with Flavor: Gods of the Warforged http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/03/races-with-flavor-gods-of-the-warforged/ A new RPG encounter, every Monday through Friday! Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:56:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 <div class=wavatar><img class='wavatar' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e128b6065bf535cb3a72a7dd3c14bedf.jpg&s=80&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.encounteraday.com%2Fwp-content%2Fcache%2Fwavatars%2Fe128b6065bf535cb3.png' width='80' height='80' alt='Wavatar' /></div>By: Asmor http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/03/races-with-flavor-gods-of-the-warforged/comment-page-1/#comment-30
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Asmor Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:14:09 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/03/races-with-flavor-gods-of-the-warforged/#comment-30 The latter. The idea is that the starforged and lifeforged were actually created slightly differently, by different processes, and were different enough to be distinct species. Kind of like high elves and drow. If you were to stat up the life- and starforged, you'd give them different sets of stats. On the other hand, all the modern warforged would use the same stats, unless you really want to make seperate star- and lifeforged racial statistics. Of course, if you did that, it might require some other adjustments to be made. I personally prefer that it not be so easy to tell if a warforged is good or evil just by looking at them. It's simple enough to just say that the star- and lifeforged no longer have the inherent theological differences built in and can now make up their own minds... in that case, the distinction becomes less like the high elf/drow split than a high elf/wood elf split. And as to the matter of Unicron directly meddling with the warforged, that's really a matter up to the game master. I'd probably say that the Warforged "souls" literally come from the chaos stuff that is Unicron, so he can still try to contact or influence them. It would explain why some warforged still worship him, but at the same time they're not built like they used to be, as a conduit of his will, so all he really is is a tiny voice in the back of the warforged's mind urging it to acts of depravity. Just out of curiosity, are you Dan? The latter. The idea is that the starforged and lifeforged were actually created slightly differently, by different processes, and were different enough to be distinct species. Kind of like high elves and drow. If you were to stat up the life- and starforged, you’d give them different sets of stats.

On the other hand, all the modern warforged would use the same stats, unless you really want to make seperate star- and lifeforged racial statistics.

Of course, if you did that, it might require some other adjustments to be made. I personally prefer that it not be so easy to tell if a warforged is good or evil just by looking at them.

It’s simple enough to just say that the star- and lifeforged no longer have the inherent theological differences built in and can now make up their own minds… in that case, the distinction becomes less like the high elf/drow split than a high elf/wood elf split.

And as to the matter of Unicron directly meddling with the warforged, that’s really a matter up to the game master. I’d probably say that the Warforged “souls” literally come from the chaos stuff that is Unicron, so he can still try to contact or influence them.

It would explain why some warforged still worship him, but at the same time they’re not built like they used to be, as a conduit of his will, so all he really is is a tiny voice in the back of the warforged’s mind urging it to acts of depravity.

Just out of curiosity, are you Dan?

]]> <div class=wavatar><img class='wavatar' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=4ca4bde0ceea2a9fdc7e2dfe9068ec4e.jpg&s=80&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.encounteraday.com%2Fwp-content%2Fcache%2Fwavatars%2F4ca4bde0ceea2a9fd.png' width='80' height='80' alt='Wavatar' /></div>By: Rubel http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/03/races-with-flavor-gods-of-the-warforged/comment-page-1/#comment-29
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Rubel Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:11:24 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/2008/01/03/races-with-flavor-gods-of-the-warforged/#comment-29 That's very good. It's well written and it has no plotholes that I can see. I assume that Unicron can't directly meddle with a warforged mind because it never sleeps? By all physically the same do you mean that the warforged alternate body feats are unavailable or do you mean that they all have a general model type that gets modified from there? That’s very good. It’s well written and it has no plotholes that I can see. I assume that Unicron can’t directly meddle with a warforged mind because it never sleeps? By all physically the same do you mean that the warforged alternate body feats are unavailable or do you mean that they all have a general model type that gets modified from there?

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