Races of Eberron
Changelings • Silver-Tongue: Changelings possess a +2
Changelings are subtle shapeshifters capable of
disguising their appearance. They evolved through
the union of doppelgangers and humans, eventually
becoming a separate race distinct from either
ancestral tree. They do not possess the full
shapechanging ability of a doppelganger, but they
can create effective disguises at will. This ability
makes them consummate spies and criminals, and
many changelings live up to that potential.
CHANGELING RACIAL TRAITS
• +2 to any one ability score: Because of
their human ancestry, changelings are very
adaptable.
• Shapechanger Subtype: Changelings are
humanoids with the shapechanger subtype.
• Medium: As Medium creatures,
changelings have no special bonuses or
penalties due to their size.
• Normal Speed: Changelings have a base
speed of 30 feet.
• Slippery Mind: Changelings possess a +2
racial bonus on saving throws against sleep
and charm effects.
racial bonus to Bluff, Intimidate, and Sense
Motive checks.
• Natural Linguist: Changelings add
Linguistics to their list of class skills for any
class they adopt.
• Minor Change Shape (Su): Changelings
have the supernatural ability to alter their
appearance as though using a disguise self
spell that affects their bodies but not their
possessions. This ability is not an illusory
effect, but a minor physical alteration of a
changeling's facial features, skin color and
texture, and size, within the limits described
for the spell. A changeling can use this
ability at will, and the alteration lasts until
she changes shape again. A changeling
reverts to her natural form when killed. A
true seeing spell reveals her natural form.
When using this ability to create a disguise,
a changeling receives a +10 circumstance
bonus on Disguise checks. Using this ability
is a full-round action.
• Languages: Changelings automatically
start of with Common. If they have high
enough Intelligence scores, they can also
learn Auran, Dwarven, Elven, Giant,
Gnome, Halfling, and Terran.
Kalashtar
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oppress the kalashtar.
KALASHTAR RACIAL TRAITS
The kalashtar are a compound race: incorporeal
entities from the alien plane of Dal Quor, the
Region of Dreams, merged with human bodies and
spirits to form a distinct species. They were once a
minority among the quori, the native race of Dal
Quor, hunted and persecuted for their religious
beliefs. Thousands of years after the quori invaded
Eberron and the connection between their plane
and the Material Plane was severed, the kalashtar
were the first of the quori to discover a means to
reach the Material Plane once more. Fleeing
persecution, they transformed their physical forms
into psychic projections that allowed them to enter
the Material Plane and possess willing humans.
Today, new kalashtar are born, not possessed;
neither spirit nor human, they are a new race that
breeds true.
It took three hundred years for the other
quori to discover a similar means to physical
project their spirits out of Dal Quor and possess
human bodies, forming the Inspired, while leaving
their own bodies behind-much as mortals project
their minds to Dal Quor when they dream. For
fifteen hundred years now, the Inspired in their vast
kingdom of Riedra have continued to persecute and
• +2 to any one ability score: Kalashtar are
very adaptable creatures thanks to their dual
nature.
• Medium: As Medium creatures, kalashtar
have no special bonuses or penalties due to
their size.
• Normal Speed: Kalashtar have a base
speed of 30 feet.
• Strong Mind: Kalashtar receive a +2 racial
bonus on saving throws against mind-
affecting spells and abilities, and
possession.
• Master Socialite: Kalashtar receive a +2
racial bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, and
Intimidate checks.
• Human Resemblance: Kalashtar receive a
+2 racial bonus on Disguise checks made to
impersonate a human.
• Dreamless: Kalashtar sleep but they do not
dream. As such, they have immunity to the
dream an nightmare spells, as well as any
other effect that relies on the target's ability
to dream.
• Naturally Psionic: Kalashtar gain 1 extra
power point per character level, regardless
of whether they choose a psionic class.
• Psi-Like Abilities: Mindlink (1/day). This
ability is like the power manifested by a
wilder of ½ the kalashtar's Hit Dice
(minimum 1st level).
• Languages: Kalashtar automatically start
with Common and Quor. If they have high
Intelligence scores, they can also learn
Draconic and Riedran.
Shifters
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Shifters, sometimes called “the weretouched,” are
descended from humans and natural lycanthropes,
now nearly extinct on Khorvaire. Shifters cannot
fully change shape but can take on animalistic
features-a state they cal shifting. Shifters have
evolved into a unique race that breeds true. They
have a distinct culture with its own traditions and
identity.
SHIFTER RACIAL TRAITS
• +2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom, -2
Constitution: Shifters are lithe, agile, and
instinctual, but rely more on speed then
stamina.
• Shapechanger Subtype: Shifters are
humanoids with the shapechanger subtype.
• Medium: As Medium creatures, shifters
have no special bonuses or penalties due to
their size.
• Normal Speed Shifters have a base speed
of 30 feet.
• Shifting (Su): A shifter can tap into her
lycanthropic heritage to gain short bursts of
physical power. Once per day, a shifter can
enter a state that is superficially similar to a
barbarian's rage. Each shifter has one of six
shifter traits-characteristics that manifest
themselves when a character is shifting.
Each shifter trait provides a +2 bonus to one
of the character's physical ability scores
(Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution) and
grants some other advantage as well.
Shifters traits are described in the following
section. Shifting is a free action and lasts
for a number of rounds equal to 3 + the
shifter's Con modifier. (If a shifter trait or
other effect increases the character's Con
modifier, use the newly improved modifier.)
A shifter can take feats to improve this
ability. These shifter feats are described in
Chapter 3 of the Eberron Campaign Setting
Guide. Every shifter feat a character takes
increases the duration of shifting by 1
round. For every two shifter feats a
character takes, the number of times per day
she can tap into the ability increases by one.
So, a character with two shifter feats can
shift two times per day (instead of the usual
one), and each use of the ability lasts for a
number of rounds equal to 5 (instead of 3) +
the shifter's Con modifier. Shifting, though
related to and developed from lycanthropy,
is neither an affliction nor a curse. It is not
passed on by bite or claw attack, and a
shifter can't be cured-shifting is a natural
ability for the race.
• Low-Light Vision: Shifters can see twice
as far as a human in starlight, moonlight,
torchlight, and similar conditions.
• Athletic: Shifters receive a +2 racial bonus
on Acrobatics and Climb checks.
• Languages: Shifters start out knowing
Common. If they have a high enough
Intelligence score, they can also learn
Elven, Gnome, Halfling, and Sylvan.
Warforged
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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.
◦ Features: As a living construct, a
warforged has the following features.
▪ A warforged derives its Hit Dice,
base attack bonus progression,
saving throws, and skill points from
the class it selects.
▪ Traits: A warforged possesses the
following traits.
• Unlike other constructs, a
warforged has a constitution
score.
• Unlike other constructs, a
warforged does not have low-
light vision or darkvision.
• Unlike other constructs, a
warforged is not immune to
Built as mindless machines to fight in the Last War, mind-affecting spells and
the warforged developed sentience as a side effect abilities.
of the arcane experiments that sought to make them • Unlike other constructs,
the ultimate weapons of destruction. With each warforged are subject to critical
successive model that emerged from the creation hits, nonlethal damage, stunning,
forges of House Cannith, the warforged evolved ability damage, ability drain, and
until they became a new kind of creature-living death effects or necromancy
constructs. effects.
Warforged are renowned for their combat • As living constructs, warforged
prowess, their size, and their single-minded focus. can be affected by spells that
They make steadfast allies and fearsome enemies. target living creatures as well as
Earlier warforged models are true constructs: some by those that target constructs.
of these remnants of the Last War appear in Damage dealt to a warforged can
monstrous varieties, such as the warforged titan. be healed by a cure light wounds
spell or a repair light damage
WARFORGED RACIAL TRAITS spell, for example, and a
• +2 Constitution, +2 Intelligence, -2 warforged is vulnerable to
Charisma: Warforged are resilient, disable construct and harm.
powerful, and bright, but their difficulty in However, spells from the healing
relating to other creatures makes them seem subschool and supernatural
aloof or even hostile. abilities that cure hit point
• Living Construct Subtype (Ex): damage or ability damage
Warforged are constructs with the living provide only half their normal
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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 repel metal or stone
as if he were wearing metal
armor. A warforged is repelled
by repel 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 affects 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 -10, a warforged is inert. He
is unconscious and helpless, and
he cannot perform any actions.
However, an inert warforged
does not lose additional hit
points unless more damage is
dealt to him, 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 heroes' feast and
potions.
• Although living constructs do
not need to sleep, a warforged
wizard must rest for 8 hours
before preparing spells.
• Medium: As Medium constructs, warforged
have no special bonuses or penalties due to
their size.
• Normal Speed: Warforged have a base
speed of 30 feet.
• 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. Composite plating
also provides a warforged with a 5% arcane
spell failure chance, similar to the penalty
for wearing light armor. Any class ability
that allows a warforged to ignore the arcane
spell failure chance for light armor lets him
ignore this penalty as well.
• Light Fortification (Ex): When a critical
hit or sneak attack is scored on a warforged,
there is 25% chance that the critical hit or
sneak attack is negated and damage is
instead rolled normally.
• Slam: A warforged has a natural weapon in
the form of a slam attack that deals 1d4
points of damage.
• Languages: Warforged automatically start
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of with Common.