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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 1223570" data-attributes="member: 545">IMNSHO, Adamantine is a convenient game mechanic catchall for any superior material -- whether it is a specific mineral ore or alloy or just an advanced refining or metalworking technique is beside the point.&nbsp; The real world history has been preserved, in a manner or speaking, in our legends and myths.&nbsp; When sufficient skill with iron appeared, these &quot;magical&quot; weapons defeated opponents armed with bronze and copper.&nbsp; That ~3000-4000 year old memory of slaughtering and enslaving barbarous and peculiar cultures is the probable origin of using &quot;cold iron&quot; against &quot;fey&quot; and other magical creatures.The joke is that Cold Iron and Adamantine is really speaking of the same thing.&nbsp; It is only the cleverness of the comic books in reinventing our own legends with a thin pseudoscientific veneer that would suggest otherwise.For D&amp;D purposes, it is (unfortunately) completely arbitrary whether Adamantine is ferrous.&nbsp; If it were up to me, I would say that Adamantine is a found gift from the Gods, i.e. iron meteorites.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 1223570, member: 545"] IMNSHO, Adamantine is a convenient game mechanic catchall for any superior material -- whether it is a specific mineral ore or alloy or just an advanced refining or metalworking technique is beside the point. The real world history has been preserved, in a manner or speaking, in our legends and myths. When sufficient skill with iron appeared, these "magical" weapons defeated opponents armed with bronze and copper. That ~3000-4000 year old memory of slaughtering and enslaving barbarous and peculiar cultures is the probable origin of using "cold iron" against "fey" and other magical creatures. The joke is that Cold Iron and Adamantine is really speaking of the same thing. It is only the cleverness of the comic books in reinventing our own legends with a thin pseudoscientific veneer that would suggest otherwise. For D&D purposes, it is (unfortunately) completely arbitrary whether Adamantine is ferrous. If it were up to me, I would say that Adamantine is a found gift from the Gods, i.e. iron meteorites. [/QUOTE]

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