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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9063668" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>So Orichalcum - or "True Gold" - is a thing in my game. It is excessively rare and valuable - being worth roughly twice that of mithril which is itself worth five times that of platinum (and in my game things are priced in silver pieces not gold pieces, so this translates in standard D&D to about 1000 times as valuable as gold). Pure orichalcum is completely immune to acid and corrosion of all sorts. It is almost as hard as Adamantium, but it's almost never used to make weapons because it does not easily take a sharp edge, and because it is heavy. Adamantium is simply better for swords. You might make a pick or Warhammer or mace out of it, but even that would be rare because the most important thing about Orichalcum is it confers immunity to magic. Armor made out of Orichalcum confers magic resistance on the wearer that scales with the 'plus' of the armor. This is so valuable and orichalcum so rare, that it's almost never used for anything else - though copper alloyed with orichalcum is corrosion resistant and somewhat magic resistant and has applications in alchemy. In my game, the Invulnerable Coat of Arnd is a mail hauberk made of orichalcum.</p><p></p><p>As for how your version works, that's perfectly fine. The rarity of the material should and can always be used to keep balance, and as a 'magic item' the proposed properties aren't too overpowered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9063668, member: 4937"] So Orichalcum - or "True Gold" - is a thing in my game. It is excessively rare and valuable - being worth roughly twice that of mithril which is itself worth five times that of platinum (and in my game things are priced in silver pieces not gold pieces, so this translates in standard D&D to about 1000 times as valuable as gold). Pure orichalcum is completely immune to acid and corrosion of all sorts. It is almost as hard as Adamantium, but it's almost never used to make weapons because it does not easily take a sharp edge, and because it is heavy. Adamantium is simply better for swords. You might make a pick or Warhammer or mace out of it, but even that would be rare because the most important thing about Orichalcum is it confers immunity to magic. Armor made out of Orichalcum confers magic resistance on the wearer that scales with the 'plus' of the armor. This is so valuable and orichalcum so rare, that it's almost never used for anything else - though copper alloyed with orichalcum is corrosion resistant and somewhat magic resistant and has applications in alchemy. In my game, the Invulnerable Coat of Arnd is a mail hauberk made of orichalcum. As for how your version works, that's perfectly fine. The rarity of the material should and can always be used to keep balance, and as a 'magic item' the proposed properties aren't too overpowered. [/QUOTE]
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