I'm playing a Warforged Artificer that has SEVERE amnesia, in a campaign of "Descent into Avernus". All he really knows is that he woke up on a cart being hauled in and dropped off at a local guild for study. Last few months he was there he kind of naturally took to tools and magical devices. He later meets the party when the guild volunteers him to help them search for "The Dead Three".
NOW, I know a lot of things in DND act more like guidelines then actual rules leaving much to a DM's discretion, but we both had a couple questions that we can't really answer.
1. Warforged have souls that make them immune to becoming undead, but still resurrectable. They gained their "life" and therefore their "soul" from the Eldritch Machines that created them. Would this mean that their soul is "Eldritch" in nature?
2. Does them having a soul allow them to make deals with devils/demons? Or since due to the nature of their soul would the devil/demon even be ABLE to take it?
3. If a warfogred "dies" could their body still be used and turned into an autonomous golem?
4.Do mutations effect Warforged? I.E. step in a f'ed up demon puddle that would mutate someone would/could it mutate a warforged?
5. I use most of my spells as items that i create or use. I'm struggling with a good idea of what Cure Wounds or Catapult are? I.E. Revivfy I pull out a magical defribulator that uses a diamond as fuel, destroying the diamond and allowing me to "shock" somone back to life.
Since this is the Rules and Mechanics board, I’ll point out that there is no rule stating that warforged can’t be raised as undead. It’s a super reasonable way to run the game if you want, but it would be a house rule.
From Kieth Baker "Canonically, warforged have souls; they can be raised from the dead and affected by other magic that affects souls. The mystery is *where their souls come from*. Are they recycled? Are they truly artificial? But yes, they have souls."
As they were "created" by Eldritch Machines which were in turn created by some ancient civilisation which was in turn created by something else, tells that their soul isn't the same as other souls. A warlock essentially sells their soul and is then infused with magic from their being of choice via Eldritch not arcane magic. I assume this would apply that they are either A. Grabbing souls that wander the planes and shoving it in a body. B. Drawing in magic from an eldritch plane and subtituing it for a soul the same way a eldritch god does to a warlock.
I think you're misunderstanding something. "Eldritch" is not a specific type of magic that contrasts with "arcane" or anything else. It's just a generic adjective that means "magical."
5. I use most of my spells as items that i create or use. I'm struggling with a good idea of what Cure Wounds or Catapult are? I.E. Revivfy I pull out a magical defribulator that uses a diamond as fuel, destroying the diamond and allowing me to "shock" somone back to life.
Cure wounds could be a spray of healing mist at touch range, a sort of concentrated healing potion medpack. Catapult could be a contraption of magnetic lode stones which spin in your hand and generate and project the magical force matrix to throw the chosen object.
I'm playing a Warforged Artificer that has SEVERE amnesia, in a campaign of "Descent into Avernus". All he really knows is that he woke up on a cart being hauled in and dropped off at a local guild for study. Last few months he was there he kind of naturally took to tools and magical devices. He later meets the party when the guild volunteers him to help them search for "The Dead Three".
NOW, I know a lot of things in DND act more like guidelines then actual rules leaving much to a DM's discretion, but we both had a couple questions that we can't really answer.
1. Warforged have souls that make them immune to becoming undead, but still resurrectable. They gained their "life" and therefore their "soul" from the Eldritch Machines that created them. Would this mean that their soul is "Eldritch" in nature?
2. Does them having a soul allow them to make deals with devils/demons? Or since due to the nature of their soul would the devil/demon even be ABLE to take it?
3. If a warfogred "dies" could their body still be used and turned into an autonomous golem?
4.Do mutations effect Warforged? I.E. step in a f'ed up demon puddle that would mutate someone would/could it mutate a warforged?
5. I use most of my spells as items that i create or use. I'm struggling with a good idea of what Cure Wounds or Catapult are? I.E. Revivfy I pull out a magical defribulator that uses a diamond as fuel, destroying the diamond and allowing me to "shock" somone back to life.
"Would this mean that their soul is "Eldritch" in nature?"
No. The soul was bestowed through eldritch means, but it is still a soul.
"Does them having a soul allow them to make deals with devils/demons?"
Yes. It's a normal soul. There's no reason a Warforged couldn't become a Warlock.
"If a warfogred "dies" could their body still be used and turned into an autonomous golem?"
Yes. In the same way a human's body could be used and turned into an autonomous zombie.
"Do mutations effect Warforged?"
Yes. They are just like every other living creature unless specifically stated otherwise.
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Since this is the Rules and Mechanics board, I’ll point out that there is no rule stating that warforged can’t be raised as undead. It’s a super reasonable way to run the game if you want, but it would be a house rule.
From Kieth Baker "Canonically, warforged have souls; they can be raised from the dead and affected by other magic that affects souls. The mystery is *where their souls come from*. Are they recycled? Are they truly artificial? But yes, they have souls."
As they were "created" by Eldritch Machines which were in turn created by some ancient civilisation which was in turn created by something else, tells that their soul isn't the same as other souls. A warlock essentially sells their soul and is then infused with magic from their being of choice via Eldritch not arcane magic. I assume this would apply that they are either A. Grabbing souls that wander the planes and shoving it in a body. B. Drawing in magic from an eldritch plane and subtituing it for a soul the same way a eldritch god does to a warlock.
I think you're misunderstanding something. "Eldritch" is not a specific type of magic that contrasts with "arcane" or anything else. It's just a generic adjective that means "magical."
"tells that their soul isn't the same as other souls."
It does? How?
All it tells us is that their souls are joined to their bodies through a non-natural process. Not that their souls are necessarily non-natural.
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Cure wounds could be a spray of healing mist at touch range, a sort of concentrated healing potion medpack. Catapult could be a contraption of magnetic lode stones which spin in your hand and generate and project the magical force matrix to throw the chosen object.
Bacitracin. https://youtu.be/FmaJPV1okPo
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Cure wounds and catapult could be a little spider robot that uses web to stitch wounds closed and shoots webs at objects to fling around.