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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infinite_Kydeem" data-source="post: 3091540" data-attributes="member: 45498">One of my players combined some unique ideas (at least I have'nt heard of them being used like this) into a potentially powerful item.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />    {Developed specifically for dragon hunting if you're interested.}Paid a dwarf master weaponsmith to make a humongous crossbow bolt out of Adamantine (sp?). Sized such that the Shrink Item spell will make it usable as a repeating crossbow bolt. Guessing approximately the size/mass of a long spear or heavy lance (since I don't have specific dimensions on a bolt).Paid a moderately high level wizard to enchant it as a +2 magic weapon (not as single use ammunition), cast Shrink Item, and cast Permanency (on the Shrink Item spell) on the bolt.Now as I read the spells, when the bolt hits something (at crossbow bolt speeds virtually anything should count as a hard surface) it will instantly enlarge to its natural size. We now have a massive bolt-shaped object traveling at the speed of a repeating crossbow bolt at the time it impacts the target.Questions:1) Any reason it won't work as the player desires?2) How much damage do you think it should do? We used 8d8 the first time around, but that was just my first guess.  :\ 3) This is the item of most interest to the player. He had it made of Adamantine and magiced so it would potentially be reusable (spell description says can be re-shrunk by original caster because of Permanency spell). But I haven't been able to make up my mind. Could even an enchanted adamntine rod survive impact at that velocity? What kind of percentage chance would you give to this? It's not like a small wooden bolt that can be snapped of as the dragon brushed up against a wall.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> 4) If it doesn't survive in perfect condition, would it be just bent up a bit or completely ruined? If it's not totally destroyed, isn't there a spell that can repair partially damaged magic items?5) If nothing else, I thought he should be able to recover the expensive metal used. But I read somewhere else (can't find it now, but still looking) that adamantine can't be recycled. The proccess of forging it is a one time thing. Is that right?I'm really not worried about it being to powerfull, he had to pay a small fortune for a (possibly) one use item (at least until he can get it re-paired and/or re-shrunk) which will then be difficult to retreive and take back to base. What, if any, are you're opinions?</blockquote>

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