Alchemical Cold Mithradamantine: Ever Use Special Material Alloys?

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

How about a magical adamantine greatsword with an extra blade on each side, one silver and the other cold iron? That would cover just about everything!

Reading thru these ideas, I have two serious thoughts.

One, you could advance the masterwork quality options. Say that adding a bit of adamantine to a sword, and doubling its base price, adds 2 hardness and 5 HP per inch thickness. Add a bit of mithril to armor, doubling its price, and knock off one point of ACP and 5% casting failure. A little bland for some of the things being looked for her, but also easier for a DM to deal with.

Second, Alchemical Smith PrC.

Pardon me while I go stat this guy out.

 

[Kaodi]

Don't you mean Eldritch Metallurgist Prestige Class?

Now, here is a what I think might be a humourous product of such a person:

Gelantinite: Through some obscure, arcane ritual of alchemical process, adamantine was alloyed with material from a gelantinous cube to create a dark, mildly transparent metal than causes anything that is not made or metal or stone to undergo a reaction than creates an acidic effect.

Gelantinite has a hardness of 12 and 15 hit points/inch, having about 75% of the weight of iron. A weapon made of gelantinite will do an extra 1d2 acid damage to any foe not comprised mostly of metal or stone, and armour made of gelantinite will do 1d2 acid damage to any weapon or creature using a natural attack not made primarily of metal or stone.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Mispaurium? (m)ithral d(isp)erse (aur)um -ium ... Lame? Maybe.

What about Dispersium?

 

[frankthedm]

I use something similar IMC. I lifted mine straight out of an old AD&D issue of Dragon. Silver-Iron Longswords were easily recognizable by their mottled black and silver blades

Yep! That is the article

 

[DMH]

I knew I had something with a lot of new metals and alloys and I finally found it. The Kaiser's Bazaar's Book C has 13 pages of the stuff. 5 forms and alloys of adamant and 3 of mythral amongst many others.

 

[Sejs]

What about Dispersium?

Makes things scatter.

 

[Owen K.C. Stephens]

In a world with wish spells and gods taking direct interest in mortal affairs, it'd be hard to believe something doesn't exist that acts like both silver and cold iron, or whatever combination of properties you're looking for. The real question become, how common, how effective, and most importantly, how much?

For the Advanced Gamemaster's Guide, I created "Sovereign Materials," which are rarer and much costlier than things like cold iron or even mithral but can create very effective weapons and armor. With silver celestrum, gold celestrum, dragonsteel, the heartwoods and orichalcum from AGMG I at least know how hard such things are to get in my games, even if players rarely bother to go to the required lengths to acquire them.

Owen K.C. Stephens
d20 Triggerman

Need better cheap magic options?
Get Loot 4 Less II: Rods, Staves and Wands

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I call it UNOBTANIUM

Temporarily back online, but likely gone for another week or two until the Spring semester madness dies down.

 

[Nightfall]

Owens,

That was your contribution?! Cool! I loved that section myself. Especially Dragonsteel. That was awesome. Expensive but awesome.

 

[Kerrick]

Interesting...what does it do for weapon damage?

*always on the look out for new and interesting material*

Here, it's all on our website.

( Oops, should of been paying more attention to what they called that sunlight alloy above, hehehe... )

I don't mind, but I got solaurum from sun (sol) and gold (aurum) so the name might not be totally accurate.