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Warforged Fist of the Forset
I was looking at a Fist of the Forest for Warforged, and noticed that the limitations seemed to be completely irrelevant for a Warforged.
Fist of the Forest says:
"Primal Living (Ex): To maintain your bestial powers, you must live like a wild animal. You must sleep in natural environments, never inside buildings, unless forced by circumstances. Furthermore, you cannot purchase food—you must obtain it by hunting, gathering, begging, or stealing. Some fists of the forest even give up speech, the use of fire and tools, and all possessions, but such extremes are not required. In any month in which you buy food or voluntarily sleep indoors more than three times, all your fist of the forest class features cease to function until you have spent thirty consecutive days living like an animal once more, or until a fellow Guardian of the Green casts atonement on you."
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 heroes’ feast and potions.
So, if the Guardians of the Green approve a Warforged, would Primal Living have zero impact? RAW I would think so - I could see expanding the sleep restriction to include the warforged required rest to memorize spells, but otherwise Warforged would have no issues? I guess the sleep thing would also apply to elves meditation time potentially?
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FotF: "You must sleep in natural environments, never inside buildings (...)"
Warforged: "No problem."
FotF: "You must sleep (...)"
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I'd agree with your interpretation that a warforged could enter the class while essentially sidestepping the prereqs. The existence of landforged walker means there's precedent for warforged linking with the land as well, so they should be accepted.
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As Arael pointed out, this isn't truly necessary.
That said, can't you just eat the -2 for having improvised tools or no tools? You're generally taking 10 anyway (the way Craft checks work in practice, that -2 determines degree of success rather than likelihood of success), and the idea of a "feral" or "uncivilized" warforged patching themselves up with mud and twigs is actually pretty compelling fluff if you ask me.In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was Suck: A Guide to Truenamers
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I may be wrong, but doesn't a warforged's composite plating disqualify it from gaining benefits from effects that require it to be unarmored unless it takes the Unarmored Body feat? This has no bearing on Primal Living (which you can completely sidestep as a warforged), but if true it would prevent you from getting your Con bonus to AC as a Fist of the Forest.
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Myself, it would never even occur to me to apply a nature themed Anything to Warforged. I guess my antique mind just isn't that flexible anymore ;DCurrently Playing: Aire Romaris Chaotic Good Male Half Celestial Gray Elf Duskblade 13 / Swiftblade 7 /// Elven Generallist Wizard 20
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I wasn't thinking about that, but rather that
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Can't access it now since I'm on Phone, but I'm pretty sure you are right: Somewhere in the place describing warforged plating it is explained that it doesn't count as armor for things like monks abilities. I'll try to look at it when I'm home... Assuming nobody else does it
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So, more seriously:
- You must live like a wild animal. Animals do eat & sleep.
- You must sleep (occasionally, there's nothing about sleeping every night). Warforged don't need to eat or sleep, but they are explicitly permitted to "eat" magic potions for mechanical benefits, so presumably they can also recreationally eat non-magical food & drink.
- If we assume they can recreationally eat non-magical food & drink, then we note that that the language for "not needing to eat or drink" is exactly congruent to the language for "not needing to sleep", so presumably a Warforged can choose to sleep (but has no biological need to do so).
- Animals do breathe, but there's nothing about breathing in specific in the class. So presumably "live like a wild animal" doesn't mind if you skip that.
Thus a Warforged might be able to "live like an animal" within the rules, but it would require some DM cooperation.
Regarding food, you "must obtain it by hunting, gathering, begging, or stealing" -- but nothing about eating it, just that you MUST obtain it.
So the Warfist of the Forestforge hunts & steals food, and then leaves it on the party's doorstep.
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Ok, here's a snippet from Races of Eberron, page 22: "Monk: Monk is a good class choice for a warforged character. Monks do not normally wear armor, so the armor bonus inherent to the race is a great advantage. You can choose to increase that advantage with Adamantine Body or Mithral Body, but both of those feats cause you to take penalties to skills important to most monks."
That, plus the fact that the description from Eberron Campaign Setting goes out of its way to differentiate between the Composite Plating and an armor, confirm that Warforged Monks don't need the feat unarmored body. Honestly, I believe the problem stems from the feat's name: if it was called Unplated Body, we'd never had any doubt.Does this poster have a sign?
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I made a Warforged Totemist as well. Actually one of the first characters I ever made. I like the interaction of Incarnum fluff with WF.
It was also a *Dragonborn* Warforged, so that lead to some interesting mental images (since Dragonborn has you keep the Living Construct subtype). I had it written in his backstory that instead of going through the usual metamorphosis he had found a priest of Bahamut who helped him install wooden + leather wings and a mechanical dragon tail.
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I at one point made a battlefist focused Monk2 / battle sorcerer warforged who punched things with a collosal fist due to beaststrike and GMW.
He came from the town of Rockem.
He was a rockem sockem robot.
I named him Blue. I regret nothing.Last edited by Fouredged Sword; 2018-04-12 at 02:22 PM.
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That one deserves a +5 button. Outstanding!
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Anyone who wants to use him feel free. I did an E6 version as Monk 2 / Battle Sorcerer 2 / fighter 2. Relies on getting an eternal wand of greater minghty wallop, but can sneak in the +5 bab just in time for beast strike at level 6.
Taked the focused attack monk acf. It more or less replaces your full attack with "crit on demand" as a full attack.
And then get karmeic strike with epic feats.
The full 20 version is much the same, but fighter isn't needed. Monk 2 / battle sorcerer 18 works just fine. Not a full gish, but options like abjurant champion are nice filler to pump bab.