D&D 5E How can I contact Mike Mearls and ask him about Adamantine weapons?

[Mistwell]

I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this (feel free to move it, moderator), but I am wanting to ask, or have someone else who knows how to contact him ask, Mike Mearls if Adamantine weapons will be in an upcoming book (i.e. Xanathar's Guide to Everything) or will be otherwise addressed in a article, etc. It is annoying that they still haven't fixed this omission. Please, can anybody help? Thank you!

I will ask him on Twitter.

See here if he answers.

 

[MostlyHarmless42]

While this is by no means an official printed rule or a response from Mearls (which, btw are not always RAW or official responses, but are often more "guidelines"), but for myself I have chosen to rule Adamantine Weapons as normal weapons, with the following benefits:
1) They bypass certain damage reductions or immunities
2) They have a hardness equal to that of Adamantine (duh)
3) They treat all non-adamantine objects as having an AC of 5 lower for the sake of damaging objects (and no, constructs are NOT considered objects for this)

The only real house rule is point 3, and I use it based off of previous editions and several fantasy settings establishing Adamantine as a durable and sharp metal that can cut through "anything" (hell, look at wolverine as an example). The rules in the DMG talk about how an object's AC represents how hard it is to damage, not hit, so a flat penalty to this ac works. I considered making it just ignore the AC of any object except Adamantine as an alternative (and for special "magic" Adamantine weapons I may have that ruling), but I felt that a -5 to ac in a game of bounded accuracy was already pretty fair. Your milage may vary, though I've always been the type to deem a weapon or armor being magic as different than just being made of silver/mythral/adamantine.

 

[jaelis]

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Contact Other Plane#content

 

[CapnZapp]

No books with adamantine weapons.

He's suggesting adamantine weapons are +3.

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[Valetudo]

Look for a jackass with its head up its own butt and you have found him.

 

[Mistwell]

I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this (feel free to move it, moderator), but I am wanting to ask, or have someone else who knows how to contact him ask, Mike Mearls if Adamantine weapons will be in an upcoming book (i.e. Xanathar's Guide to Everything) or will be otherwise addressed in a article, etc. It is annoying that they still haven't fixed this omission. Please, can anybody help? Thank you!

Here is my question:

Will adamantine weapons be in an upcoming book (i.e. Xanathar's Guide to Everything) or article?

Here is Mearls' answer:

Not as their own thing - invisible assumption is that +3 weapon = adamantine, but I don't think we ever put that in a book

Look for a jackass with its head up its own butt and you have found him.

Pretty sure he was looking to contact Mike Mearls with this question, not you.

 

[Morrus]

Look for a jackass with its head up its own butt and you have found him.

Not appropriate. Do not post in this thread again.

 

[CapnZapp]

Here is my question:

Will adamantine weapons be in an upcoming book (i.e. Xanathar's Guide to Everything) or article?

Here is Mearls' answer:

Not as their own thing - invisible assumption is that +3 weapon = adamantine, but I don't think we ever put that in a book

I read that answer yesterday, but vaguely remembered the context to be different - a second round of replies perhaps - but now I cannot find it.

 

[lkj]

I took it to mean that +3 weapons would have to be made of adamantine (as opposed to all adamantine weapons being +3). But not clear from the tweet. Mostly I take it as a sign that WotC won't be doing anything soon with adamantine weapons and that we'll just have to figure it out for ourselves. Which is fine with me.

AD

 

[Elderbrain]

I will ask him on Twitter.

See here if he answers.

Thank you!