Homebrew Warforged Steelblade Species Details

The creature stood as still as stone, without breathing or blinking. The man approached, knife in hand, unsure of the warforged's intentions. It had no weapons, just sturdy steel armour layered over muscle shaped clumps of wire. The man jumped forward, snatching the gem from the sleeping's hand. Suddenly short sharp blades hacked into the mans skull, killing him instantly. The Steelblade stepped back, gem in hand. Then he hardened, just like before, watching over his resting companions.

 

— Nief Cungar, The Bandit's Fellow

Warforged Steelblade are basically the same as regular warforged, but enhanced for different purposes, and have been built to not rely on swords and shields, but to use their minds and built in contraptions to aid them in battle.

Living steel and stone

Warforged are formed from a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Root-like cords infused with alchemical fluids serve as their muscles, wrapped around a framework of steel, darkwood, or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. Warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw and crystal eyes embedded beneath a reinforced brow ridge. Beyond these common elements of warforged design, the precise materials and build of a warforged vary based on the purpose for which it was designed. Although they were manufactured, warforged are living humanoids. Resting, healing magic, and the Medicine skill all provide the same benefits to warforged that they do to other humanoids.

Warforged personality

The warforged were built to serve and to fight. For most of their existence, warforged had a clearly defined function and were encouraged to focus purely on that role. The Treaty of Thronehold gave them freedom, but many still struggle both to find a place in the post-war world and to relate to the creatures who created them. The typical warforged shows little emotion. Many warforged embrace a concrete purpose-such as protecting allies, completing a contract, or exploring a land-and embrace this task as they once did war. However, there are warforged who delight in exploring their feelings, their freedom, and their relationships with others. Most warforged have no interest in religion, but some embrace faith and mysticism, seeking higher purpose and deeper meaning. The typical warforged has a sexless body shape. Some warforged ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity. The more a warforged develops its individuality, the more likely it is to modify its body, seeking out an artificer to customize the look of its face, limbs, and plating. 

 

 

 

 

Quirks

d8 Quirk

1 You analyse-out loud-the potential threat posed by every creature you meet.

2 You often misread emotional cues.

3 You are fiercely protective of your friends.

4 You try to apply wartime discipline to every situation.

5 You don't know how to filter your feelings and are prone to dramatic emotional outbursts.

6 You don't understand clothing beyond its utility and assume it denotes a person's function.

7 You are obsessed with your appearance and constantly polish and buff yourself.

8 War is the only thing that makes sense to you, and you're always looking for a fight.

Warforged names

Most warforged were assigned numerical designations for use in military service. Many of them adopted nicknames, often given to them by their comrades. As independent individuals, some have chosen new names as a way to express their path in life. A few take on human names, often the name of a fallen friend or mentor.

Warforged Names:

Anchor,    Banner,    Bastion,    Blade,    Blue,    Bow,    Cart,    Church,    Crunch,    Crystal,    Dagger,    Dent,    Five,    Glaive,    Hammer,    Iron,    Lucky,    Mace,    Oak,    Onyx,    Pants,    Pierce,    Red,     Rod,  Rusty,    Scout,    Seven,    Shield,    Slash,    Smith,    Spike,    Temple,    Vault,    Wall

Warforged Steelblade Traits

Your Warforged Steelblade has the following racial traits:

Ability Score Increase

Your constitution score increases by 2 and your dexterity/strength score increases by 1

Age

A typical warforged is between two and thirty years old. The maximum warforged lifespan remains a mystery; so far, warforged have shown no signs of deterioration due to age. You are immune to magical aging effects.

Alignment

Most warforged take comfort in order and discipline, tending toward law and neutrality. But some have absorbed the morality, or lack thereof, of the beings with which they served.

Size

Your size is Medium. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier:

Size modifier= 2d6

Height= 5 feet + 10 inches + your size modifier in inches

Weight in pounds = 270 + (4 x your size modifier)

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Constructed Resilience

 You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits:

You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.

• You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

• You are immune to disease.

• You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Warforged first language is usually the one of the race that created it, such as gnomes, dwarves or goblins etc.

Sentry's rest

When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn't render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Intergrated Protection

Your body has built-in defensive layers, which can be enhanced with armor: • You gain a +l bonus to Armor Class. You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor, you must incorporate it into your body over the course of 1 hour, during which you remain in contact with the armor. To doff armor, you must spend 1 hour removing it. You can rest while donning or doffing armor in this way. • While you live, your armor can't be removed from your body against your will.

Specialised design

You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice

Steelblade weaponry

As a Warforged Steelblade you don't need hand held weapons to fight. You can spend 20 minutes to build a weapon of your choice into your body. It works as normal but cannot be disarmed. It can also be sheathed and dropped easily. You can also build a shield or crossbow into your body. You can have a crossbow on the same arm as a melee weapon, but you cant have any weapon on the shield arm. You automatically become proficient with any built in weaponry. You can also choose one of additional options as a built in accessory. At 7th level you can choose an additional accessory.

•  Flamethrower: As a bonus action you can fire a stream of flame in a 10 ft cone from your chest. DC: 10+con dexterity saving throw or take 3d4 fire damage, or half as much on a failed save. This can be used twice before being drained of oil. You need to spend 5 minutes and a 2 pints of oil to restock the flamethrower.

•  Enhanced legs: Your base walking speed is now 35 ft and you can jump both 5ft higher and further. Your leg also become unarmed strikes dealing 1d6 bludgeoning damage.

•  Heated eyes: You have a darkvision of 120 ft and are proficient in the perception skill. You also immediately spot anything shiny or glittery.

•  Dynamo core: You have a +1 to constitution and after a long rest you have 5 temporary hit points.

•  Slealth adaptor: You are proficient in the stealth skill and do a dice extra damage when you sneak attack. If more than 40 ft from somebody then you are indistinguishable from a pile of metal or a statue when completely still.