Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Optional Warforged Builds

October 8, 2015

Most people I have spoken with feel that the warforged presented in the Unearthed Arcana: Eberron is lacking. So you can choose of of these options with your Dungeon masters approval of course. I think each of these grants a little extra flavor to the race and balances them nicely in comparison to the other races in the players handbook. A big thank you to Art Wood for coming up with these for us.

Optional Warforged Types…

Mithral Body (Warforged Only): Your body is composed of Mithral plating and wood Making them light and agile. You gain +1 to your Dexterity.

Adamantine Body (Warforged Only): Your body is composed of Adamantine plates and Dark Wood. Your heavy body grants you Immunity to Critical Hits and you have disadvantage on Stealth rolls due to your extreme weight and bulkiness.

Dark Wood Body (Warforged Only): Your body is composed completely of Dark Wood, granting you the ability to now take levels in the Druid class. NOTE: Without this feat Warforged can NOT take levels in the Druid class due to their metal bodies.

Crystal Body (Warforged Only): Your body houses living crystals that protrude from your plates and joints. You gain +1 additional Psychic (Psi) point and Psi Point Maximum per level of Mystic character class taken Due to the fragile nature of crystal you lose your +1 natural armor bonus to Armor Class.

So please share your opinions about these extra racial options with us as well as any cool Dungeons & Dragons Warforged stories either in the comments below or over on our fourm.

And as we always say: Until Next Time Stay Nerdy!

1 Comment


Tom Taylor
October 19, 2015 at 11:51 am

I personally think Dark Wood needs more of a feature to it since no other race gets a class restriction (which is quite a big thing), so a choice just allowing them to do something every other race can do is not a great feature.
Instead of gaining anything it basically feels like the playing field was leveled.