[RPG] Are Warforged required to eat and drink

dnd-5eeberronfood-and-drinkwarforged

Do Warforged (from Eberron) need to eat and drink to survive like Humans/elves/dwarves/etc.?

If not, what daily maintenance and sustenance do they require? How were Warforged maintained during the Wars?

Best Answer

Warforged don’t need to eat or drink

As per the book Eberron: Rising From the Last War, the official fifth edition source for Eberron, Warforged have the Constructed Resilience trait, which confers several benefits including:

• You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.

The description makes no mention of them requiring any other form of sustenance, and there’s no lore in the book indicating they require any either. I haven’t been able to find any in older sources, either.

In terms of maintenance, it’s worth noting that fifth edition Warforged are explicitly called out as being “living humanoids”, which means:

Resting, healing magic, and the Medicine skill all provide the same benefits to warforged that they do to other humanoids.

So there’s no special maintenance required.