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Post by joatmoniac on Jul 7, 2020 20:17:26 GMT
rorrik and I were thinking, what if one of your players has been listening to Dungeon Master’s Block. They're not even a DM! Well, they heard episode 193, Warforged with Jeremy Crawford, and the tragic history of the warforged calls to them. Trouble is, warforged don’t make sense in your world, or the world of Dayeimbe. Time to homebrew something similar to fit! Play off of what others post, come up with a wholly unique version. The questions below should help. 1. What are your world’s warforged called? 2. Where did they come from? 3. How did they come to be their own people? 4. What struggles do they face due to their origin? 5. What racial traits do they have? 6. You do you! <script id="th-iframe-script" src="chrome-extension://ofdopmlmgifpfkijadehmhjccbefaeec/assets/comms/commsiframe.js"></script>
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Post by Mariok Soresal Hillick on Jul 11, 2020 10:13:50 GMT
I love Warforged, I find them very interesting. I think this might be due to the fact that the world of Eberron was the first D&D campaign setting I ever read at the age of around 6 or 7, even before I knew what D&D was! I found the books lying around in my grandmother's apartment, and just started to read them and found them very evocative and amazing (though I really didn't understand everything, but that only piqued my curiosity even more). My Dad saw me reading those books and the next year of my life was marked with my first introduction to the world of roleplaying games, and his reintroduction into that world.*
So going to create my own version of Warforged is a real nostalgic treat for me.
1. What are your world’s warforged called?
My Warforged are called "Automata" out-of-universe and perhaps in-universe too. They would likely be called something based on the Ancient Balirian language, which is certainly similar to Ancient Greek but also has some Sanskrit and Latin and general Proto-Indo-European influences.
If they are used for Dayeimbe, they could of course easily be called Automata in-universe as well, since this world doesn't place a heavy emphasis on making the names and languages logical and make sense. I guess this is okay...
Also, it should be noted that I make a difference between "Automata" and "Self-Reliant Automata". An Automaton is any machine that can perform anywhere from one to many actions without the help of a human. A Self-Reliant Automaton is a specific type of Automaton which can perform all actions that a human can.
2. Where did they come from?
The Automata do not come from one dramatic single life-giving event, rather they are like the golem - they are a magical and technological creation that can be done any time in the world's history as long as you know the spell. In addition, one can make variants and expansions onto the original spell to create a totally unique Automaton.
Many Automata of course are only objects which can move an arm or hand or leg or act out simple directions. Some of these are not even created through magical means! These were the very first types of Automata. However, as magical technology became more advanced, people began to create Automata that could perform more and more complex tasks. Finally, the famed wizard [enter name of famed wizard, in my world it's Marvellon] performed a magical technological spell that lasted three days and three nights in front a large audience of other famed wizards that resulted in the creation of the world's first fully self-reliant and self-aware Automaton.
This Automton could perform any action like a human could, with an ease and grace that no other mortal could hope to match. It could react to prompts that other humans gave it just like any other human would. And it spoke the Ancient Oscumbrian and Balirian in a clear shining voice. It held much knowledge in its head, including the way to create other Automata.
Many protested that this Automaton was not really self-aware, that Marvellon had magically imbued in its brain the way to act and react in every situation possible, that it was just going off a set of instructions. The Automaton and Marvellon coauthored the now famous piece titled "On the Self-Awareness of Self-Reliant Automata: Why Humans are Just As Self-Aware as Self-Reliant Automata".
This essay soon swayed the opinions of academics, magicians, and intellectuals. But the populace and a minority of academics still hold the opinion that Self-Reliant Automata are not self-aware, and for this they often suffer discrimination, cruel torture, and slavery. This leads us onto the next question.
3. How did they come to be their own people?
They came to be their own people when the Self-Reliant Automatic Renaissance got into full-swing, and many Automata became famous wizards, academics, professors, and writers who spoke about the common Self-Reliant Automatic experience and infused this into their literature, drama, art, criticism, and essay. Many Self-Reliant Automata gathered around this new ideal and went to Self-Reliant Automatic Gatherings, where they spoke about the cruelties and problems they were facing throughout their life. Through this global community, they began to celebrate the same festivals and believed in the same religion and faith (in my world this religion is influenced by the Zuzis, another oppressed group in my world due to their movements happening around the same time).
Some Automata reject this idea, but they are still influenced by this culture as it permeates throughout almost every Automatic household and life.
4. What struggles do they face due to their origin?
I have written about this before, but I shall outline it again here so to have it in one place. The Self-Reliant Automata are subject to cruel treatment throughout the world since the general public views Self-Relaint Automata as the same as basic Automata. Humans do not think Self-Reliant Automata think and experience in the fulness that mortals do, and so treat them as dumb objects to do menial labor for little or no pay. In some lands, there are written laws that assume the lesserness** of Self-Reliant Automata.
The Self-Reliant Automata do not have a very good lot in life, however it is getting better with the Self-Reliant Automatic Renaissance.
5. What racial traits do they have?
They are generally just the same as humans, however most are made of non-biological material such as stone, metal, and more. For this reason, most Automata are stronger and have more constitution than the standard human. Of course, most Automata (even the ones made of biological material) do not need to eat, drink, breathe, and sleep. Neither are they affected by standard human diseases.
6. You do you!
I usually have something to do say in this section, but this time I don't. I think I've covered all the important bases in what I have written so far so I do not need to write anymore on this topic.
Oh! Now I know what to say here - to make the subjugation of Self-Reliant Automata more realistic one should probably look at how animals were mistreated (and how they still are) and the history of slavery around the world (not just modern American/European slavery! Although that was probably one of the worst kinds. Check out Russian serfdom too though, it was pretty terrible there as well). Both are somewhat different than what the history of the discrimination against Self-Reliant Automata would be, however these topics would be useful to the creation of a realistic portrayal of how Self-Reliant Automata would be subjugated.
Of course, there may be those who find these topics too dark for a fun roleplaying session, and this is completely fine as well.
I hope you liked it!
*(these books were 3.5 I am fairly sure, although my Dad never played that edition of D&D - he stopped at AD&D. He bought these books because he was interested to see where the game had gone since he left it, but then didn't really pay attention to them much afterward.)
**yes, I know that this not a real word.
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Post by Zahast on Jul 17, 2020 16:09:21 GMT
1. The Ascendant
2. The Ascendant are a shattered fragment of a dead world. Polluted by dark magic, hunted by fell creatures, they fled the remnants of their dying plane in a worldship crafted by a powerful artificer.
3. As they wandered the cosmos, the Ascendant found their bodies, and those of their children, were succumbing to the insidious effects of the dark magic that destroyed their homeland. Once more they turned to the artificer to help. He trained an academy of students known as the Union, which labored endlessly to find a technological solution to the problem of their wasting disease. The solution became complete conversion to automata. The Union became a unified consciousness from which each individual Ascendant is split for a short time in order to gather resources and knowledge for the collective.
4. Many Ascendant have gone rogue, fearing that their consciousness will lose their unique perspective. Others simply reject Union authority. Many more have bargained with the union for extended periods of freedom, or for special privileges on the assumption that they will eventually return. There are rumors that a rival collective has arisen in dark corners of the cosmos in opposition to the Union and its power over Ascendant monoframe production (nimblewrights?)
5. 5e converted warforged, who at level 20 gain the Index ability which allows them to communicate directly with the Union or form their own discreet consciousness.
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Post by letterlost on Jul 25, 2020 9:25:01 GMT
2. Where did they come from?
If I were to add warforged into Dayeimbe, I imagine them being tied to one of the techno gods from DMN 118 (since they conveniently exist and I conveniently read it recently).
Kintro would be a good fit for Automata, inspiring mages to push the limits of automata to create sentient beings (or self-reliant automata). The Ascendant would probably lean towards Nazdrormoth (as artifice/ death mercenaries from the space) or Eleron (order/ control AI from space with aspirations of automating the world). I really like both of these posts but for me, since I started thinking about this idea, I thought of the god Macuiltotec by 00dlez.
Mechkanan’s, or Mechs
The Templers of Macuiltotec thought they destroyed the augmentations, weapons, and equipment created by the Mechkanan Empire. Several years later, Mechs rose from the debris and entered the world.
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Post by dmdw on Sept 9, 2020 20:39:16 GMT
1. What are your world’s warforged called?
Gnomeforged
2. Where did they come from?
Tired of raids by marauding gnolls, orcs, ettercaps, etc. the rock gnomes of the northern badlands created a mechanical army to defend their people.
3. How did they come to be their own people?
Tired of long workdays and few oil breaks, Adamant the Eloquent roused the majority of the gnomeforged to stage a walk out. And most of them kept walking. It is thought that a few younger gnomes, sympathetic to the cause, joined them on their march and helped them found a gnomeforged colony.
4. What struggles do they face due to their origin?
Sadly, some cantinas in the land still adhere to the "We don't serve their kind here" maxim. The more progressive taverns, however, have capitalized on the gnomeforged desire to fit into the wider civilization, adding oil and soldering services to the menu alongside ale and chips.
5. What racial traits do they have?
"Natural armor", naturally. Many gnomeforged, rather than having the "Specialized Design" trait, have the Tinker proficiency like their rock gnome creators.
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