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Will respond to all of this in detail later tonight, but am loving what people have so far!

@Adelene: Quick note: the campaign is actually starting in 994 YK, before the end of the war--so it'll be *very* common for people to view warforged as property (typically, but not exclusively, property of the military) in this time period. (In the canonical Eberron time period, 998 YK, one of the provisions of the Treaty of Thronehold which ended the war was warforged emancipation, but even then in many nations they were still treated as property.) Given our campaign premise it's probably easiest to interpret "going 'fuck this' and disappearing from society for a while" as "traveling into darkest Xen'drik" and "then something happened and she's back" as "returning to Stormreach", but it's up to you.

*goes and reads linked thing* oooooooh.

Yeah, Lurkerforged is going to be all over joining up with a group to check out the mournlands. The disappearing for a while and reappearing later doesn't need to be a thing, if the war's still on; I will need to work out what her situation is in this particular scenario, though. I was already leaning toward her having been 'too much of a prototype' to be sold, so I suspect the DoM left her ownerless; the question then is where she was at the time and what she knows about it - her finding them soon after they get to the area and acting as tour guide is an option but maybe not the most fun one; it'd be more interesting if she'd been on assignment somewhere else at the time and doesn't know any more than anybody else.

Just wondering - do we have an artificer in the party? I feel like if the story is going to involve the depths of Xen'drik and a strange, prototype warforged, then we definitely need someone who is at least somewhat of an Expert

If I'm doing a warforged scout, then I'll probably be interested in picking up artificing along the way, first as an attempt to "make myself more useful" and later out of genuine curiosity about the nature/potential of warforged.

Incidentally, I could see an interesting dynamic there with Lurkerforged: the older, resentful "free" 'forged versus the new shiny "loyal" 'forged.

Speaking of dynamics, what does religion have to say about Warforged? Specifically, I want to know what my cleric should think about her smoll-robot teammates.

Urpriest wrote:Incidentally, I could see an interesting dynamic there with Lurkerforged: the older, resentful "free" 'forged versus the new shiny "loyal" 'forged.

Lurkers don't actually come in resentful flavor? But yes, if there's multiple 'forged in the party she's definitely going to take a particular interest in the others, and loyalist vs. subversive is going to be interesting thing to watch. ^^

Adelene wrote:

Urpriest wrote:Incidentally, I could see an interesting dynamic there with Lurkerforged: the older, resentful "free" 'forged versus the new shiny "loyal" 'forged.

Lurkers don't actually come in resentful flavor? But yes, if there's multiple 'forged in the party she's definitely going to take a particular interest in the others, and loyalist vs. subversive is going to be interesting thing to watch. ^^

How would Lurker react to a cleric that was mildly-agnostic (pun not intended) over warforged personhood?

World backstory can change, but the prototype warforged were of the 'large and very dangerous but dumb' variety rather than 'small and hopefully harmless'. Warforged scouts (the small ones) were late inventions, but that's more due to vagaries of which sourcebook they were in more than actual in-world reason, probably. Unless they are just too small for the giants to have invented them.

PlainDealingVillain wrote:World backstory can change, but the prototype warforged were of the 'large and very dangerous but dumb' variety rather than 'small and hopefully harmless'. Warforged scouts (the small ones) were late inventions, but that's more due to vagaries of which sourcebook they were in more than actual in-world reason, probably. Unless they are just too small for the giants to have invented them.

Those look more like earlier models than actual prototypes.

Also like, presumably the scouts ALSO had prototype versions?