Can you have a Mythril weapon?

[questionmark]

My lodgic is that if you can have Mythril armor why cann't you have a mythril sword? maybe there is one and I can't find it.

 

[Hypersmurf]

If you mean "Mithral", yes, you can. Look at the section on creating magic items at the end of the magic items chapter in the DMG.

About the only benefit is that a mostly-metal weapon weighs half as much as normal.

And it looks all pretty and shiny and stuff.

-Hyp.

 

[The Souljourner]

Better hardness and hitpoints too, right? (or is mithral the same as steel in that point? I don't remember) Either way, half the weight is really really handy if you tend to carry around multiple big heavy weapons. .... Anyone else wondering if a warhammer that weighs half as much will do as much damage?

-The Souljourner

 

[Wolf72]

yup slightly better hp and hardness

suuure .. why would a warhammer or mace do dmg any differently if they are made out of metal? [edit: um metal? riiight, been up much to long already should be MITHRAL!]...

well okay, but that would be getting nitpicky ... just take the 1/2 weight, higher hp and hardness and be happy!

 

[DM with a vengence]

Since you're paying a fair price for not all that much more functionality, I'd let Weapon Finesse be applied to any one-handed Mithril weapon.

I imagine that in 3.5 there's going to be a monster with DR/Mithril

 

[Kae'Yoss]

AFAIK mithral won't show up as a DR category (but adamantine will).

 

[Wolf72]

Since you're paying a fair price for not all that much more functionality, I'd let Weapon Finesse be applied to any one-handed Mithril weapon.

I imagine that in 3.5 there's going to be a monster with DR/Mithril

that sounds pretty fair ... *wolf might have to put that in his house rules file*

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Since you're paying a fair price for not all that much more functionality, I'd let Weapon Finesse be applied to any one-handed Mithril weapon.

Unless you want to relax the rules for finesse anyway, that will actually be a cheap way of getting a finessable weapon with more damage. (In a campaign I played in, the DM let me have finesse with every weapon that he deemed fitting for finesse, as well as finesse being a general feat that applies for all weapons, not just for one type per feat. I used the short swords, anyway, and only very rarely the Katana.)

 

[kreynolds]

Actually, KaeYoss brings up a good point about laxed Weapon Finesse rules. AFAIK, 3.5 will allow you to apply Weapon Finesse to any appropriate weapon after taking it only once, which sounds awesome. If that's indeed the case, I might house rule mithril weapons, of your same size, to be finesseable or something.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

We already used that rule, and it somehow makes more sense: you learn to fight with finesse rather than brute strength, and that shouldn't be tied down to a single weapon.