I see no reason to arm those riders with anything except polearms unless they’re Small and unable to wield those weapons without disadvantage.Īnyway, we now have two more questions to answer: How do a warforged titan’s riders want to use it, and what does the warforged titan want to do when it isn’t told? A partial answer to both questions is “Hulk smash.” With extraordinary Strength and Constitution, average Wisdom and below-average everything else, a warforged titan’s only logical combat role is to close to melee distance and start whaling. (In addition to confining it to the Dash, Disengage and Dodge actions, treating it as a controlled mount would require you to decide which of its riders is the one controlling it they can’t both do so.) Also, the fact that its riders can make melee attacks only with spears or reach weapons, and only against Large or larger targets, seems to imply that the converse is also true, although I personally would allow flying foes to target and be targeted by the riders as well. As I read the rules, I think it can be considered a mount, but it has to be treated as an independent mount, or it can’t use its attack actions. This trait introduces the question of whether or not the warforged titan should be considered a mount, and if so, whether it can be either controlled or independent ( Player’s Handbook, chapter 9, “Mounted Combat”). Let’s start with the warforged titan and its Platforms trait, which allows it to be ridden by two Medium or smaller creatures, like Jaeger pilots.
The titan is a barely sentient brute the colossus, a barely sentient mega-brute. If you’re looking for any of that in the stat blocks of the warforged titan and the warforged colossus, you may as well stop looking, because you’re not going to find it. Yet it seems to be a universal impulse-at least, among the kind of people I interact with-to have them turn away from that path and toward one of introspection. In the lore of their creation, the warforged were purpose-built to be soldiers. It’s funny, but everyone I know who’s created a warforged player character, including myself, has chosen to make them a cleric, druid or monk.