How does the clone spell work with Warforged since one of the required materials is “1 cubic inch of flesh of the creature that is to be cloned”? Thanks! You should ask @Wizards_DnD if you want an official answer. But MY ruling would be that as warforged don't have flesh, they can't be cloned.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 3, 2019
But a more generous DM might allow you to use a cubic inch of the organic rootlike material that makes up much of the body of a warforged.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 3, 2019
There’s no ESTABLISHED way to do that. But that doesn’t mean someone like the Lord of Blades couldn’t figure out how to do it in your campaign.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 3, 2019
I think the big question is, “what is flesh”? Because while in English we often think of “flesh” as being meat, technically things like blood and bones are also flesh.
And if the wholly unliving, inorganic parts of bone still count as “flesh” for the purposes of magic, why shouldn’t different inorganic parts of other creatures count just the same? And if blood (which is 78% water) counts as flesh, then surely the “alchemical blood-like fluid” that flows in Warforged qualifies as well?
Warforged are not constructs – they are living creatures, and humanoids for the purposes of all magic. I don’t see how you can be a “living” creature without flesh – if you were wholly inorganic, you would be a construct.