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Hi Everyone! With the release of Xanathar's Guide to Everything, my next few articles are going to look at how the ideas in XGtE affect Eberron. This initial post ties to common magic items, and the broader question of how to incorporate Eberron's wide magic into 5E. 

Now: My original plan was to write about warforged this month, and I simply haven't had time or inspiration to do that. I don't want to let you all down, so if you have specific questions about Warforged, post them here and I'll do a Q&A to address them in the future. 

Thanks for your support!

-Keith Baker

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Dragonmarks: Common Magic, Part One

Xanathar's Guide to Everything was released recently, and it includes a host of options for players and gamemasters. Over the next month I'll explore how I'd incorporate some of these ideas and options into Eberron. Right now I want to tackle a subject that intersects only partially with XGtE: the question of how Eberron can coexist with the limited magic of default 5E D&D.

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Thursday Garreau

I would love to hear some thoughts and options on why the original Xen’drik warforged were built.

Gonzalo

I can actually benefit from some insight about the first and latest warforged prototypes: First, I'm running a campaign set in the Last War, and I was wondering how different are the first attempts at creating warforged from just golems, if different at all. And then, I'm also planning a different one when Merrix (Jr.) is tinkering with new designs, against the Treaty of Thronehold terms about this. In your opinion, what would the grandson of the warforged Creator change on that to leave its mark in history after the war?

Darrin Katzska

Keith, can you share any concepts for warforged that you've come up with or come across that haven't made it into any of the published books? I'm thinking about a couple examples from your novels that have unique warforged designs. Thanks!

Thursday Garreau

You mentioned in the Manifest Zone segment that it would be easy to refluff a Warforged Sorcerer as a unique “artillery”unit, essentially a living wand. Do you have any thoughts on how to handle a standard Sorcerer’s flavor on a warforged, with the bloodline/planar angle on it?

Jarrod Taylor

How do modern warforged feel about their titan predecessors?

Darrin Katzska

Keith, are there any aspects of roleplaying the warforged that you find are under-used or under-explored? What kinds of questions do you like to explore when you are playing warforged?

Jarrod Taylor

Could a warforged caster undergo the ritual to become a lich?