Obdurium???

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm afraid we have been bamboozled. This thread is five years old. Babies who were conceived in the day of this thread are already speaking their minds about having to take naps in preschool. The ugly truth is that nobody cares about obdurium anymore.

I do! It was just mentioned in a 2012 thread, so I Googled to find out what it was, and ended up here.

It was sort of disappointing.

 

[Crothian]

So, what you are telling me is that after ten years we still don't know what Obdurium is?

 

[Aeolius]

thread necromancium!

 

[Nytmare]

I can't possibly be the only person to look 3 items down on the google search.

Obdurium is a pale violet metal which is harder than adamantine. This incredibly rare metal represents the pinnacle of nonmagical metal strength. It is also extraordinarily expensive, costing ten times as much as carving stone walls and sixty times what a normal wooden wall would cost to build.
The doors leading to the Godtrap in Zagig's Prison beneath Castle Greyhawk are made of obdurium.

Obdurium - Ghwiki

 

[kitsune9]

Unobtainium decays into Obdurium.

I was waiting for this joke.

 

[kitsune9]

So, what you are telling me is that after ten years we still don't know what Obdurium is?

I didn't know about it until today myself. But it looks like I'm 1 1/2 editions behind the times since it came from the Stronghold Book.

 

[Nytmare]

I was waiting for this joke.

Oddly enough, the post was made in 2007 and most people only know the term unobtanium from Avatar, which came out in '09.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

But engineers have been using the term since the 1950s- so if you know enough engineers...

 

[blargney the second]

Apparently obdurium is a required component for a threadlich's phylactery.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I can't possibly be the only person to look 3 items down on the google search.

I'm on a Google break, since I've grown tired of trying to outwit them when I just want unfiltered results. (Unfortunately, everyone else seems just as bad.)