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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 1225607" data-attributes="member: 545">IMHO, Adamantine is just a catch all mechanic for a superior material, whether it is a special ore or secret processing technology is really beside the point.The joke is that Cold Iron is the "same thing" as Adamantine.  Cold Iron hurting fey or other magical creatures is most likely a transformed memory of superior iron technology vanquishing barbarous and peculiar other cultures.  Adamantine is just a reinvention of this mythology with a thin veneer of pseudoscience created for contemporary period comic books.For purposes of D&D, it is completely up to the DM whether Adamantine is ferrous.  If you ask me Adamantine should be make from found gifts from the Gods, i.e. ferrous meteorites.</blockquote>