Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I am talking about published products, NOT what you do at the table. Anyone can do anything they want at the table. But what the books actually say matters to rather a lot of people.I am not sure if you are trying to make an argument, or just stating the most bland fact ever.
I made a character who was mechanically an autognome. I called them a Living Doll, because they were made by a crazy, immortal and creepy Toymaker instead of by any gnomes. Yeah, if you really want to get obsessive about the details, a warforged that wasn't forged for war would need a different name. And in Star Trek they called "Elves" Vulcans.
The point isn't "everything will exactly match up one to one with no errors". The point is the mechanical species (which in the rules is called warforged) can be easily put into any setting, because "magical construct people" is a rather common fantasy trope that needs little extra explanation. IF a DM wanted to insist to change the name to Cookieforged because they were all originally designed to be chefs in an endless cookie factory... fine, but that doesn't prevent the use of the species mechanics in the setting.
I'm getting rather frustrated with the lack of charity here. My posts don't deliberately tear you down. I assume you mean what you say and had a reason for it. Perhaps you should do the same.