[Eberron] Looting the Warforged

[Lucias]

I'm running my group through a long-promised Eberron campaign that has gone really well so far. I'm running them through a heavily modified Forgotten Forge/Queen With Burning Eyes that leads into Shadows of the Last War. I've increased the intrigue levels by tenfold. I'm pumped.

Anyway, one of my players is a long-time Living Greyhawk player (he's Triad) who hasn't gotten much of a chance to spread his wings in a homebrew for a long while. A recent ambush included a Warforged with adamatine plating and he's looking to extract it and find someone to forge some adamantine weapons from it.

It's actually in character for him, so I'm allowing it, providing he can find someone who will actually do it (not terribly difficult in Sharn, but expensive). So I'm wondering just how much adamantine is in the body. I ruled enough for 2 longswords or 4 daggers, but wasn't sure if there was an official rule that I'm missing somewhere.

Oh, and don't worry, there will be consequences

Thanks!

 

[Sun Wukong]

I wonder what's next, a nice shifter fur coat?

 

[Kesh]

Keith Baker responded on the Wizards board that, effectively, you'd spend more money than the adamantine was worth in extracting the metal from the rest of the body.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wow, I'd let him extract it, though, just for all of the hellacious consequences. Even relatively nice and friendly warforged would be after this guy in short order, and in Sharn, word WOULD get around on the interesting pieces of metal brought in.

And yow, talk about making a name for yourself with the Lord of Blades ...

I'd definitely allow it, just for all the chaos it unleashes.

 

[Ferrix]

Keith Baker responded on the Wizards board that, effectively, you'd spend more money than the adamantine was worth in extracting the metal from the rest of the body.

And did he give any decent explanation for that?

It's already refined adamantine, it just takes stripping the rest of the junk off, which any lacky with some basic tools could do in probably very short order.

My opinion, they could do it relatively easily, heck, if they did it in private, I even doubt word would get out as Whizbang suggested.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My opinion, they could do it relatively easily, heck, if they did it in private, I even doubt word would get out as Whizbang suggested.

Unless they have a super-hot forge in their pockets, the pieces of metal are going to be distinctively shaped. Metal rare enough to be worth prying out of a warforged corpse will be worth noticing to begin with. When it turns out that it looks like the skeletal structure of the warforged, word will get around, especially if non-warforged don't know the significance of the shapes, and don't take measures to keep the parts hidden.

It just takes one warforged working in the forge to pass the word to two more. Within a few hours, all of Sharn's warforged community could know, including agents of the Lord of Blades.

 

[BigAlzBub]

I don't see the problem. Normally adamantine is very difficult to get hold of, if a player wants to allow an armour smith to flay him, so be it. However warforged aren’t going to be pure Adamantine, so the metal will need to be extracted by various alchemical and metallurgical processes, so in short it will cost the list price for any adamantine object, but at least you don't have to go and find a place that will sell it.

 

[Klaus]

Do remind the player that according to the Treaty of Thronehold (which ended the Last War), warforged are *people*. It'd be like gutting a human corpse for the meat.

And to extract the adamantine, they'd need to haul the entire body to a working forge capable of shaping adamantine.

As for how much, I'd say as much adamantine as a suit of adamantine full-plate armor. Deduct the fees for a smith to pry out the adamantine, melt the ore, se-shape the ingots and you get about 50% of the adamantine it takes to make said armor. I'd say one two-handed weapon, or one one-handed weapon and one light weapon, or three light weapons or 50 ammunition.

 

[Hand of Evil]

And did he give any decent explanation for that?

It's already refined adamantine, it just takes stripping the rest of the junk off, which any lacky with some basic tools could do in probably very short order.

My opinion, they could do it relatively easily, heck, if they did it in private, I even doubt word would get out as Whizbang suggested.

The adamantine is forged into the body via magic becoming bonded with the material already there, it would take a very hot fire to seperate, while it could be melted at a lower temp if you do not seperate the impurities create weak points in the metal when reforged making them breakable.

You would be better off using the parts to make a shield golem or such.

 

[Maldur]

How mechanical are warforged?

Would it be possible to replace a damaged arm with a "replacement"?