Mithral and Armor Proficiency...

[Jack Haggerty]

I think that the "Treat as masterwork for construction times" simply means that you calculate the extra construction time for using a special material based on the cost of a masterwork item, instead of the actual cost of the material. If you actually want to make the item masterwork as well, you spend time and money for that seperately.

So it's 3.5 weeks for creating the base chain shirt, plus twice the time it would take to make a masterwork chain shirt.

Now, there's an interesting interpretation...

Though (with the smith in my example), it'd still take ~4 months for a mithral shirt, and ~7 months for a MW mithral shirt.

 

[Caliban]

Now, there's an interesting interpretation...

Though (with the smith in my example), it'd still take ~4 months for a mithral shirt, and ~7 months for a MW mithral shirt.

It certainly sounds better than spending years creating an adamantite weapon or set of mithral fullplate.

 

[Jack Haggerty]

It certainly sounds better than spending years creating an adamantite weapon or set of mithral fullplate.

We've actually had a similar situation come up in our game recently...

Our party's paladin stole an adamantine door from a magical tower (don't ask), so he could have a suit of armor made from it. He was so very excited about it, until he found out from the smith he hired that it would take months to complete.

 

[Cergorach]

So, when you think about it, there's little need to worry about the construction time of Adamantine and Mithral items. What character is going to take months off of adventuring to make one stinking suit of armor, when he can just steal one off the corpse of some hapless elf?

Well, i'm not planning on spending months on building mithral armor/weapons. I'm spending 10 minutes with a Fabricate spell and a pill of raw mithral. I'm a 10th level caster with a high enough intelligence to get a 5th level bonus spell, thus i can do it 3 times a day. I need to equip about 30 troops with mithral masterwork breastplates, should take me a tenday...

*thinks it's time to start a thread about the fabricate spell*

 

[Kae'Yoss]

(don't ask)

Well, this does sound interesting. Why did a paladin steal a door from a wizard tower? Does Mask have Paladins nowadays?

 

[Jack Haggerty]

Well, this does sound interesting. Why did a paladin steal a door from a wizard tower?

Because it was the only part of the entirely adamantine tower that the DM would let him pry loose.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Because it was the only part of the entirely adamantine tower that the DM would let him pry loose.

And he had no guilty conscience that he commited grand larceny?

 

[Jack Haggerty]

And he had no guilty conscience that he commited grand larceny?

Well... the tower was located on some unknown plane of Hell.

But no, he didn't... But really, that's a whole different thread.