Can a changeling mechanically imitate/impersonate a warforged successfully/convincingly (presumably the changeling could add armor and the like to his/her "costume" appearance to help with the disguise)?
[RPG] Can a changeling imitate/impersonate a warforged
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Best Answer
Yes. Changelings can impersonate warforged.
The Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron (p.61) and Eberron: Rising from the Last War (p.18) both describe the change appearance racial feature:
Changelings are good at imitation
Part of their racial feature grants them advantage on maintaining the ruse
Clothes do not make the warforged.
Warforged are one of the few races frequently depicted without clothing. So being naked isn't a give away nor would being clothed as some do choose to wear clothing.
Natural Armor vs Worn Armor
The natural armor of the warforged isn't equipment, and would be fair game in the same way the scales of lizardfolk are. However, they can wear armor by "incorporating it into their body" (E:RftLW p.36):
Armor worn this way is still equipment and not valid for being replicated by a changeling.
Warforged are valid targets of impersonation
Slightly diverging from the previous editions, which had them as living constructs subject to different rules, in E:RftLW (p.35) they are explicitly described as living humanoids subject to the same rules as other races: