Warforged

The Warforged are a race of mechanical beings created by the gnomes of Hosgreep around 100 years ago. Warforged are entirely made of metal, stone and wood, and their inner workings are understood only by the most studied of gnome engineers. Warforged are not very well understood by the rest of the world, many people assuming they lack sentience like most other constructs. This is obviously not the case, and warforged have displayed a wide array of personalities. Warforged are generally around 6 feet tall and weigh around 300lbs.

Game Statistics (3.5e)

• +2 Constitution, +1 Strength
• Living Construct Subtype (Ex): Warforged are constructs with the living construct subtype. A living construct is a created being given sentience and free will through powerful and complex creation enchantments. Warforged are living constructs that combine aspects of both constructs and living creatures, as detailed below.
  • Immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, disease, nausea, fatigue, exhaustion, effects that cause the sickened condition, and energy drain.
  • A warforged cannot heal lethal damage naturally.
  • Unlike constructs, warforged are subject to critical hits, nonlethal damage, stunning, ability damage, ability drain, and death effects or necromancy effects.
  • As living constructs, warforged can be affected by spells that target living creatures as well as by those that target constructs. Damage dealt to a warforged can be healed by a cure light wounds spell or a repair light damage spell, for example, and a warforged is vulnerable to disable construct and harm. However, spells from the healing subschool and supernatural abilities that cure hit point damage or ability damage provide only half their normal effect to a warforged.
  • The unusual physical construction of warforged makes them vulnerable to certain spells and effects that normally don't affect living creatures. A warforged takes damage from heat metal and chill metal as if he were wearing metal armor. Likewise, a warforged is affected by repell metal or stone as if he were wearing metal armor. A warforged is repelled by repell wood. The iron in the body of a warforged makes him vulnerable to rusting grasp. The creature takes 2d6 points of damage from the spell (Reflex half; save DC 14 + caster's ability modifier). A warforged takes the same damage from a rust monster's touch (Reflex DC 17 half). Spells such as stone to flesh, stone shape, warp wood, and wood shape affect objects only, and thus cannot be used on the stone and wood parts of a warforged.
  • A warforged responds slightly differently from other living creatures when reduced to 0 hit points. A warforged with 0 hit points is disabled, just like a living creature. He can only take a single move action or standard action in each round, but strenuous activity does not risk further injury. When his hit points are less than 0 and greater than -max HP, a warforged is inert. He is unconscious and helpless, and he cannot perform any actions. However, an inert warforged does not lose Constitution while unconscious, as with a living creature that is stable.
  • As a living construct, a warforged can be raised or resurrected.
  • A warforged does not need to eat, sleep, or breathe, but he can still benefit from the effects of consumable spells and magic items such as hero's feast or potions. Although living constructs do not need to sleep, a warforged wizard must rest for 8 hours before preparing spells.

• Size: Medium.
• Speed: 30 ft.
• Composite Plating: The plating used to build a warforged provides a +2 armor bonus. This plating is not natural armor and does not stack with other effects that give an armor bonus (other than natural armor). This composite plating occupies the same space on the body as a suit of armor or a robe, and thus a warforged cannot wear armor or magic robes. Warforged can be enchanted just as armor can be. The character must be present for the entire time it takes to enchant him.
• Light Fortification (Ex): When a critical hit or sneak attack is scored on a warforged, there is a 25% chance that the critical hit or sneak attack is negated and damage is instead rolled normally.
• A warforged has a natural weapon in the form of a slam attack that deals 1d4 points of damage.
• Automatic Languages: Common. Bonus Languages: Gnome.

Game Statistics (5e)

• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength increases by 1.
• Age. A typical warforged is anywhere from 1 to nearly a hundred years old. The maximum lifespan of the warforged remains a mystery; so far, warforged have shown no signs of deterioration due to age. You are immune to magical aging effects.
• Size. Your size is Medium. Warforged are around the same size as humans.
• 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.
  
• 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.
• Integrated Protection. Your body has built-in defensive layers, which can be enhanced with armor.
  You gain a +1 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 must 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.
• Specialized Design. You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.