Dan,may you tell what will happen if animated dead is casted on a warforged character? A warforged zombie or nothing happen? I heard some settings in former edition of dnd said that the warforged can't be transformed into the undead. It that still works in 5E?
— Skywalker (@isleofswamplord) December 12, 2019
Warforged are humanoids and behave as normal, though it’s DM’s discretion if they can be “skeletal.”
Warforged zombie is for sure on the table.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) December 12, 2019
That makes no sense. Warforged were originally created to fight undead armies; not feed more fuel into the necromatic recruiting efforts.
So in technical terms the warforged do not count as living creature and are constructs. Thus in this spells like heal do not work. Now I have not read the exact words of the spell but it would highly depend on the exact wording and if that is felt to not be enough then it always defaults to the Game Master.
I have to tell you it is absolutely impossible to bring them back as anything as it is said in the dnd beyond in which warforged is now an official material that the warforged cannot be resurrected by anything past a wish spell