Questions tagged [special-materials]
For questions about materials that do not exist in the real world, or that have special properties in the game world. This includes things like mithril, adamantium, or silver.
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Cold Iron Handwraps of Mighty Blows
Handwraps of Mighty Blows can have runes, so your unarmed attacks benefit from these:
These handwraps have weapon runes etched into them to give your unarmed attacks the benefits of those runes, ...
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Unbreakable thrown ammunition by RAW?
Is there anything to make or get a thrown ammunition unbreakable? Or does something like this already exist?
I'm talking about weapons like Shurikens, Skiprock etc...
I know there is the Raptor Arrow. ...
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Does Truesilver grant Ghost Touch?
Truesilver comes from Ghostwalk (page 64):
Truesilver: This ability incorporates magically purified and hardened
silver into the weapon. It is treated as a silver weapon for the
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Can you use Fabricate on 13 Adamantine crossbow bolts to make a short sword?
Can you use the Fabricate spell on 13 adamantine crossbow bolts to make a short sword?
The average crossbow bolt is 15-22 inch long and avg. diameter of 0.003 inch – about 0.14 pounds each, coming to ...
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Do adamantine short swords, daggers, rapiers...etc keep their finesse properties?
I remember that in past editions adamantine is a heavy and sturdy metal. It allows the creation of excellent armors and even better weapons. I just want to know that if the finesse property still ...
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Can a Mithral Great Sword be used as a Kensei Monk's Kensei Weapon?
Can a Mithral Great Sword be used as a Kensei Monk's Kensei Weapon?
If Mithral is a light weight material for armor....can it work with weapons? Meaning would a mithral great sword negate the heavy ...
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Do the Thunder Gauntlets and Lightning Launchers of Adamantine Arcane Armor count as Adamantine weapons?
As stated in Xanathar's Guide:
Adamantine is an ultrahard metal found in meteorites and extraordinary mineral veins. In addition to being used to craft adamantine armor, the metal is also used for ...
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What is the cost of making non-combat items out of adamantine?
What does it cost per pound to make non-combat items out of adamantine? I can't find any specific number anywhere. Mithral has a price per pound but adamantine does not.
The closest I've been able to ...
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How can I limit crafting and material-searching without limiting player agency?
I'm a new GM. Several of my PCs really enjoy crafting/potion-making/resource-farming and have builds that are well-suited to it. In the past I wanted to reward their enthusiasm for searching for new ...
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Roll on a D% Table for Special Materials
The magic weapons and magic armor pages have a table that indicates whether the armor or weapon is made of a special material. But going to the special materials page, there's nothing to indicate how ...
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is it possible for the special effects of ores such as admantium be infused scales of a creature
I have a lizardfolk character that just got adamantine plate armour. I wondered whether my adamantine armour could be melted down and infused with my scales due to having naturally scaly and tough ...
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Can an animated sword, made of adamantine, take damage via magical fire?
During our game, the DM claimed that a sword forged of adamantine would not take any damage from a spell's magical fire. In this instance, it was an animated sword that attacked us, and therefore a ...
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What happens when Adamantine strikes Adamantine?
I'm going to cut to the chase, in D&D 5e, if a player wearing adamantine armor gets hit with an adamantine weapon, what happens?
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How much material silver is required to silver a greataxe, if the time and expertise is being provided as a favour?
Suppose I own a greataxe, and a blacksmith owes me a favour. The Smith knows how to craft silvered weapons, and has agreed to do the work as a favour if I provide the raw silver.
The rules on silvered ...
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Does an Adamantine greatclub always deal critical damage like other Adamantine weapons?
In general adamantine weapons always deal critical damage on a hit:
Whenever an adamantine weapon or piece of ammunition hits an object, the hit is a critical hit.
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything,...
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Can adamantine or mithral armors have magical properties (+1, for example)?
As an ex-player of D&D 3.5, I'm a little bit confused about Adamantine armors and Mithral armors. In 3.5e, they are not inherently magical; it is just classic armor with a different material, so ...
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What does it cost to craft a Hell-knight plate with "Easily Worked" steel?
I have problems calculating the costs for a Hell-knight plate which is crafted based upon the Pathfinder Unchained Rules and using a special raw material (Easily Worked steel).
A Hell-knight plate ...
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What would be the price of Adamantine Plate armor?
I'm already aware, as per Are there price lists for magic items, such as the Bag of Holding?, that 5e was designed with the assumption that magic items are not to be bought or sold willy-nilly. This ...
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Do infernal war machines count as objects?
Specifically in regard to the effects of a hit with an adamantine weapon, would a hit with one turn into a critical hit? I know it's a vehicle but it's powered by souls and has a stat block like a ...
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Do things made of adamantine rust?
Could Rust monster or maybe Gray ooze make adamantine weapon rust? Or maybe adamantine doesn't rust at all?
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Is there a way I can turn bone into metal?
I am playing a campaign that starts us off as commoners who have no adventuring experience. My character is a town drunk who has never gotten into a fight in his life. In our second session our party ...
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Is a simulacrum tangible while inside an antimagic zone?
The Simulacrum spell enables to make an illusory copy of a humanoid or beast by giving magic to a statue of snow or ice (that contains hair/fingernails/etc.).
While inside an antimagic zone (from the ...
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How much do silver weapons cost?
Silver weapons are clearly a thing, as many monster stat blocks claim they can be hit with silver weapons. But I don’t see how much they cost.
So, how much does a silver weapon cost?
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How do Pathfinder Unchained's special raw materials work?
How does Pathfinder Unchained's special raw materials work?
I can't seem to get them; I could be misunderstanding but it always seems like something is off to me.
For example, say I wanted to craft ...
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Can a caster Deliberately Fail Wrest Resources to produce adamantium?
This is a request for a viability check on a spell combo to mass produce adamantium.
My questions are:
Is this viable?
Am I missing any negative consequences not accounted for?
Is there a way to make ...
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What is a reliable source of Adamantine?
What is a reliable source of Adamantine for PC's with a level range of 13-16?
I am finding it difficult to locate appropriate Lore on adamantine, specifically where it comes from, where to find it, ...
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What differences exist between adamantine and adamantite in all editions of D&D?
I have stuff in my notes about adamantine's durability and ability to autocrit against structures and objects (5e), reduce critical hits to normal ones (5e) and act as a virtually indestructible ...
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What Armor Optimization applies to a Mithral full plate?
The Description of Mithral Armor describes this effect:
Most mithral armors are one category lighter than normal for purposes of movement and other limitations. Heavy armors are treated as medium, ...
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What is the most expensive material in the world that could be used to create Pun-Pun's lute?
I want to create a magic item that would be basically a lute left by the almighty Pun-Pun. I highly doubt that he would lower his standards to use pitiful materials like adamantium or platinum. I am ...
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What Effects Does a Mithral Lance Have?
I was wondering what a lance made of mithral from the 5th edition would do. Mithral weapons are lighter than other kinds of weapons, but I read on what mithral weapons do, but it never explains what ...
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Does coating your armor in silver add any effects?
Similar to this question, I am curious about the effects of adding silver to your armor. Though adamantine armor (being the other enhancement able to be added to weapons/armor) has a specified effect (...
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Are expensive material component costs too specific?
Reality Revision requires a crystal worth 25,000 gp.
Wish requires a diamond worth 25,000 gp.
"Grand Jewels" in the treasure tables peak at 5,000 gp.
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What does "...from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons" mean?
I'm sure your first thought is, that's perfectly clear. Unfortunately my group who aren't normally rules lawyers disagree.
Party encounters a Werewolf (MM p.211). It has:
Damage Immunities: ...
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Could Swift Quiver provide silvered/adamantine ammunition?
As I understand it, silvered (PHB p. 148) and/or adamantine (XGtE p. 78) weapons or ammunition do not automatically count as magical. There is no text describing them as magical, and they are not ...
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Is the secret to smithing Adamantine known only by the Technic League?
Lately, I've been playing a campaign located in Belkzen territory, about a new ship falling down on Golarion and bringing a new heap of adamantine with it, a la Numeria/Starfall.
Skipping the ...
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Can the weapon summoned via a Warlock's Pact of the Blade be pre-silvered when summoned?
Would it be possible to manifest a weapon that has either the Silvered or the Adamantine property?
Per the description of Pact of the Blade:
You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your ...
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Do clubs of different materials have different stats?
In an upcoming campaign I’m playing a Lizardfolk barbarian, and one of the lizardfolk features is Cunning Artisan which means I can harvest any creature, plant, etc to create a club, javelin, blowgun ...
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Can you use a silver coin as an improvised melee weapon?
Super cool warblade fighting a vampire. Alas, he has no silver weapons. Can I hold a silver coin in my fingers and rake at him or in between my knuckles and punch at him?
I saw a similar 5e answer ...
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Can a druid apply the shield bonus from an Ironwood Wild Tower Shield +1 while wild-shaped?
So a druid would need:
Tower shield proficiency as a feat
An ironwood tower shield
Enchantment of Wild +1 (which is really +4)
Would I be able to use this shield before wildshaping, and have the ...
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What is the cost of Wild Dragonhide Agile Breastplate?
Agile Breastplate: 400
Masterwork: 150
Dragonhide: 550 (double cost)
Wild: 9000 (+3)
Total: 11000
Is my math right?
What about for fullplate?
Fullplate : 1500
Masterwork: 150
Dragonhide: 3300 (...
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Can you make cesti adamantine?
I'm playing a Brawler and I'm wondering if it would be worth it to buy a pair of adamantine cesti to bypass DR and for sundering purposes.
Close weapon Mastery says the following:
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Does a natural 20 on the attack roll still automatically hit if the target is wearing adamantine armor?
My Fighter (Battlemaster) Warlock (Hexblade) build character has just acquired a suit of +1 adamantine plate armour.
From the description of adamantine armor (DMG, p. 150):
This suit of armor is ...
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Can you coat a weapon with adamantine?
My dwarven cleric needs a buff lvl10 and I have 1000 gp. I know I can get an adamantine weapon with this but since my character is greedy I was wondering if I could just get a master Smith to coat the ...
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What are the properties of Minor Alchemy materials when used with spells that require special materials?
Consider this Part 2 from What happens to objects, changed while transmuted using Minor Alchemy, after they revert?
This is regarding the School of Transmutation wizard's Minor Alchemy feature (PHB, ...
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Can a steel shield be equipped with wooden spikes?
We found out our party might be fighting vampires. It could be cool if my shield-bashing fighter affixed wooden shield spikes on heavy steel shield. Can this be a thing, RAW?
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Functions of special materials
In D&D 3.5e, armor, shields, and weapons could be made of special materials including mithral, adamantine, darkwood, alchemical silver, cold iron, and dragonhide. Each of these has a special ...
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Does nonmagical ammunition fired with silvered bow overcome resistance?
From this question, I have another question.
Silvered weapon is not magical, it is only considered magical to overcome resistance, thus ammunition fired from a silvered bow/crossbow cannot overcome ...
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What is the cost of a +1 Mithral Heavy Steel Shield?
I need a breakdown of the item costs:
Base price
Mithral
+1 Enchantment
I’ve read that there have been conflicting prices between the Core Rulebook and Ultimate Equipment.
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Is a weapon that grants additional attacks overpowered or exploitable?
I'm bringing a metal into my campaign that's light and strong (think aluminium/titanium) so attacks with weapons made from it end up being faster. Would allowing a second attack on a miss once per ...
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Can I improve a suit of Adamantine Armor I've found to have a +2 AC magic bonus?
Is it possible to add extra AC onto "Adamantine Armor" that we find as treasure?
As the Adamantine is uncommon, I would assume that the highest magical increase could be +2, making it Legendary.
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