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Adamantite Bypassing DR?
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<blockquote data-quote="FANGO" data-source="post: 216012" data-attributes="member: 2368"><p>Kaljamaha, even when you quote a post of mine, you still seem not to read it. If you actually bothered to read it, you would see that I mentioned the reason that it might be reasonable, and that is because the rules for magical enchantments are in the "magic items" section, and from this it would be reasonable to assume that the designers meant you needed a magical enhancement bonus. However, and this I also stated in the original post, it seems to be that this is not prohibited by the rules, so it would be possible to buy a +2 adamantine battleaxe and put flaming on it. I don't see why everyone keeps saying it would be cheaper, as the weapon does have the abilities of a +3 weapon now, I the total cost would be 19,000, still more than a regular +3 weapon, as Jeremy explains in his above post. I don't know if I particularly like this solution (and, like I said, I was never a fan of the "must be +1" rule to begin with), but it doesn't seem to be prohibited.</p><p></p><p>Also, since people (i.e. Wolf72) didn't seem to hear it the first few times....does a silver longsword +2 bypass DR? Yes. Thus, an adamantine longsword (which has a +2 enhancement bonus), also bypasses DR, because you don't take the lowest amount of DR that a weapon can bypass, you take the highest. And personally, I don't particularly care about either of those 'high-ranking' opinions, since I have very little respect for skr, and the sage flip-flops about so much that he can only be counted as another possibly-well-informed-but-has-no-time-to-check-the-books-so-he-really-isn't opinion.</p><p></p><p>The fact is that DR is bypassed by things with enhancement bonuses, and adamantine gives an enhancement bonus. Furthermore, adamantine costs MORE than equivalent magical weapons, even though it has less flexibility, so there is absolutely no game balance reason not to allow it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FANGO, post: 216012, member: 2368"] Kaljamaha, even when you quote a post of mine, you still seem not to read it. If you actually bothered to read it, you would see that I mentioned the reason that it might be reasonable, and that is because the rules for magical enchantments are in the "magic items" section, and from this it would be reasonable to assume that the designers meant you needed a magical enhancement bonus. However, and this I also stated in the original post, it seems to be that this is not prohibited by the rules, so it would be possible to buy a +2 adamantine battleaxe and put flaming on it. I don't see why everyone keeps saying it would be cheaper, as the weapon does have the abilities of a +3 weapon now, I the total cost would be 19,000, still more than a regular +3 weapon, as Jeremy explains in his above post. I don't know if I particularly like this solution (and, like I said, I was never a fan of the "must be +1" rule to begin with), but it doesn't seem to be prohibited. Also, since people (i.e. Wolf72) didn't seem to hear it the first few times....does a silver longsword +2 bypass DR? Yes. Thus, an adamantine longsword (which has a +2 enhancement bonus), also bypasses DR, because you don't take the lowest amount of DR that a weapon can bypass, you take the highest. And personally, I don't particularly care about either of those 'high-ranking' opinions, since I have very little respect for skr, and the sage flip-flops about so much that he can only be counted as another possibly-well-informed-but-has-no-time-to-check-the-books-so-he-really-isn't opinion. The fact is that DR is bypassed by things with enhancement bonuses, and adamantine gives an enhancement bonus. Furthermore, adamantine costs MORE than equivalent magical weapons, even though it has less flexibility, so there is absolutely no game balance reason not to allow it. [/QUOTE]
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