Tony Vargas
Legend
Short answer: yes, in D&D, it's always been a metal before.Hi all,
I'm running OotA and one of my players wants to multiclass his fighter to druid. So I'm checking the options we have to have a non-metal heavy armor since he have the feat.
As far as I know adamantine is not a thing in the real world and can't find WTF it is. I just want to know if it is a metal and is forbidden for druids.
Long answer... 'adamant' is taken from classical Greek, from which it is usually translated either 'diamond' or 'steel.' In English, adamant means resolute or stubborn and does not usually refer to a material and damantine can refer to a material, meaning unbreakable. Adamantite appends a suffix suggesting a mineral, and adamantium a suffix suggesting an element or metal, and have been used in science-fiction starting in the mid-20th century. FWIW.
There's really little rhyme or reason behind the Druid weapon & armor strictures, it's just how classes tended to be design back in the day. The historical/legendary druids they were based on had no such concerns, for instance.I think they can't use metal armours because metal is extracted from rocks and hippie things like that. I can change that.
Dark Sun had all kinds of non-metalic heavy armors. Maybe plates from a bulette could be used to make something, for instance.Is there any other option for him to have a heavy armor?
It was mentioned along side mithril and meteorite iron...Wasn't adamantine in 1st Ed originally fluffed to be meteorite iron or something like that?
Which reminds me, in my old AD&D campaign, I decided that the adamant('-tine,' '-tite,' '-ium' I forget) alloy mentioned in passing in the 1e DMG discussion of magical armor involved a rare earth something like greenish-grey coal (not remotely something you'd make a weapon or armor out of, by itself), and was used in forging the special steel called adamantium (the problem was getting the forge hot enough for it to burn), but that it was a secret known only to the odd legendary smith or wizard.
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