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<blockquote data-quote="Planesdragon" data-source="post: 1051363" data-attributes="member: 11133">Er, a +5 Sword of what again, exactly?&nbsp; Last I checked, &quot;Sharpness&quot; wasn't a property of magical weapons anymore.Anyway...You know how diamonds, those really really hard stones, can scratch anything?&nbsp; Cutting things is a lot like scratching them, but a little more involved.&nbsp; (We use diamond saws to cut very hard stone, for example.)Adamantine, which is a very strong and very hard material, makes for great armor and a great weapon because it's so amazingly hard _and_ as strong as steel is.&nbsp; It's a magical material that can't exist on earth--but trust me, if we could make body armor with a hardness of 10 and the same strength, or make plates of diamond that weren't brittle, we would, and we'd have a brand new type of armor / knife blade.It might help to remember that, for a very hard material, everything else is soft.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Planesdragon, post: 1051363, member: 11133"] Er, a +5 Sword of what again, exactly? Last I checked, "Sharpness" wasn't a property of magical weapons anymore. Anyway... You know how diamonds, those really really hard stones, can scratch anything? Cutting things is a lot like scratching them, but a little more involved. (We use diamond saws to cut very hard stone, for example.) Adamantine, which is a very strong and very hard material, makes for great armor and a great weapon because it's so amazingly hard _and_ as strong as steel is. It's a magical material that can't exist on earth--but trust me, if we could make body armor with a hardness of 10 and the same strength, or make plates of diamond that weren't brittle, we would, and we'd have a brand new type of armor / knife blade. It might help to remember that, for a very hard material, everything else is soft. ;) [/QUOTE]

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