One of the new players this time round is completly new to the setting and has asked if i will allow him to play a warforged. Instead of saying "no" outright, I decided to sit down and see if i could actually come up with a reasonable explanation as to why there might be warforged on Athas. I decided that one possible explanation was that the rhul-thaun of the jagged cliffs have begun reactivating living arftifacts left by the rhulisti and sending them out to gather knowledge of the world and to eventually return to the jagged cliffs once their pilgrimage of knowledge is complete.
Now obviously, none of the "(metal) body" body feats would be allowed, since there just isn't enough metal to justify the use of the feats, for PC's anyway.
Since I use the Paizo Dark Sun update, I was trying to figure out a way to bring them up to LA+1 or LA+2 if need be. I was thinking a good LA+1 would be to start them of with the Psiforged Body feat (Magic of Eberron) as a free feat that doesn't count against their taking a different Body feat, and to have them start out with the Unarmored Body feat (Races of Eberron) unless they take a different Body feat at character creation. For psionics, I'd give them the ability to manifest My Light, Sense Psionics, and Skate 1/day plus an additional time per day per 2 character levels.
Thoughts? Comments? Opinions? Flames? Any and All are Apreciated.
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Since i'm beginning to prepare my new homebrew dark sun campaing, i suggest to use the same rationale i used to introduce warforged:
"the Final Champion of Rajaat"
at the end of the cleansing wars the First Sorcerer planned to get rid of both champions and humans using an army of construct warriors he was secretly building in the blak.
The rebellion led by Boris prevented the unleash of this scrouge on the land but the brief liberation of Rajaat triggered the activation of the forge and the production of troops for the last cleansing to come.
Part of this army is building his force in the black waiting the creation of the Final Champion and part is materializing in the world with a role of ghater information/espionage... warforged materialized are clueless, since it was thwe only method to assure secretness.
hope it helps
the Slayer of Champions is a Warforged Ranger with favored enemy: Dragon & Human. He has the Blood Obsidian body feat (homebrewed for my campaign) and follows the Two weapon fighting combat style. He weilds dual weapons of legacy, The Burning and The Bane, twin blood obsidian bastard swords. Due to a choker of glamour, he can cast veil on himself a number of times a day, but no matter what races he looks like, he has red skin, black eyes, and white hair.... not a bad champion, eh?
i will soon post my 21 champions, with a brief description, covering the how and the why the remaning 6 remained "undocumented" and seems unknown even to the first 15
stay tuned
My rationale for him is that he's a relic of the green age, went "offline" for years until the players found him, deep under the earth in green age ruins. I really like your ideas of a warforged "killer of all" champion though, and I'll probably end up stealing some of your ideas :P
I let him have the mythril body feat, although he really wanted the adamantine body feat (I thought he would get killed quickly with that feat, and his body looted for adamantine! hehheh). The players wanted to sell him outright, and that made for some comedy.
:D
(I don't use warforged in my own DS games - they fit better into the Spelljammer setting, imho - but it's a neat idea nevertheless...)
The creation of large amounts of warforged back in the Green Age would also help explain where all the metal has gone :D
...)
That will be an intresting rationale for any faction to search for the place of bith of the warforged...
for instance i addedd a number of body feat based on common Arthasian materials like kitin, obsidian and bone.
for instance i addedd a number of body feat based on common Arthasian materials like kitin, obsidian and bone.
Yeah, I thought of doing that too, but since the warforged in my game are from the green age, it wouldn't really have made sense
(there was enough metal back then for the regular body feats)
I have not done this but I did kick the idea around the old cranium housing unit for a while.
Yeah, I thought of doing that too, but since the warforged in my game are from the green age, it wouldn't really have made sense
(there was enough metal back then for the regular body feats)
yup but mine are a mixed brand, the general project dated the gren age but the blunk of production began only whit the defeat of Boris and the only warforged around began to be spawned from the blak with a general recognissance purpouse, so their aspect had to mimic the general culture of the modern age