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<blockquote data-quote="paulewaug" data-source="post: 1056579" data-attributes="member: 5899">Also then- the particular properties of Silver or more accurately Alchemical Silver, will make for a weapon with an especially narrow/focused purpose. Since the silver has a -1 to damage and if it was enchanted to be “magical +1” it would be +1 to hit and +0 to damage, in effect -correct?Whereas a Cold Iron or Adamantine weapon enchanted would not have this..”deficiency” (for lack of a better word coming to mind) thereby making the cold iron or adamantine better for “general purpose” use. Also as noted Cold Iron costs more (+2000gps) to “magically enhance.” Now compare that to the cost of Mithral would likely make it better for general use as well .So it looks like Mithral is only a good material if it is readily available and Adamantine is not, and even then it’s usefulness vs. enhancing a cold iron weapon is questionable.&nbsp; Granted it has a higher Hardness than Cold Iron, but still-It has no DR reducing properties that cold iron can not only match but exceed, from the looks of it. It looks like maybe Mithral is sort of a better kind of ”steel,” barring any house rules to make it otherwise.So are we back to D&amp;D Mithral maybe being “Titanium?”&nbsp; I thought I saw that mentioned around here a few months ago in a metallurgy discussion-?edit: to clarify my feeling about the &quot;general usefulness of silver vs. iron vs. mithral ,etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paulewaug, post: 1056579, member: 5899"] Also then- the particular properties of Silver or more accurately [i]Alchemical Silver[/i], will make for a weapon with an especially narrow/focused purpose. Since the silver has a -1 to damage and if it was enchanted to be “magical +1” it would be +1 to hit and +0 to damage, in effect -correct? Whereas a Cold Iron or Adamantine weapon enchanted would not have this..”deficiency” (for lack of a better word coming to mind) thereby making the cold iron or adamantine better for “general purpose” use. Also as noted [b]Cold Iron[/b] costs more (+2000gps) to “[i]magically enhance[/i].” Now compare that to the cost of Mithral would likely make it better for general use as well . So it looks like Mithral is only a good material if it is readily available and Adamantine is not, and even then it’s usefulness vs. enhancing a cold iron weapon is questionable. Granted it has a higher Hardness than Cold Iron, but still-It has no DR reducing properties that cold iron can not only match but exceed, from the looks of it. It looks like maybe Mithral is sort of a better kind of ”steel,” barring any house rules to make it otherwise. So are we back to D&D Mithral maybe being “Titanium?” I thought I saw that mentioned around here a few months ago in a metallurgy discussion-? edit: to clarify my feeling about the "general usefulness of silver vs. iron vs. mithral ,etc. [/QUOTE]

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