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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 191930" data-attributes="member: 2013">Really?This may indeed be found in Drow of the Underdark, but I do not have access to that book.&nbsp; Frankly, I was of the opinion that such referred to &quot;drow adamantine&quot; (only).IOW, to create an adamantine sword takes at least 25 years of work?&nbsp; Based on the +9,000 gp cost, I find that extremely difficult to justify... assuming the minimum time of 25 years, that means the artisan is charging less than 1 gp/day of effort... one presumes that it takes some skill and effort to work in the high magic areas you refer to.&nbsp; It also assumes the craftsman is willing to defer payment for 25 years.&nbsp; I don't see it happening.&nbsp; It just doesn't fit, so I consider these statements to be irreconcilable with the remainder of the data and hence spurious.My personal opinion was that the statements you mentioned, while they might have come from &quot;Drow of the Underdark,&quot; were completely inconsistent with statements about adamantine made in 3e, and so I ignored them.Admittedly, some of that probably comes from my bias that pretty much anything having to do with drow is by default, pure crap.&nbsp; But hey, at least I admit to having the bias, right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Seriously, though, if I put the kind of strictures you suggest on there, the cost of adamantine in 3e should be several orders of magnitude higher... like 900,000 gp for a sword (at least).Part of doing guesswork is knowing what data to ignore. IOW, I was very aware of your statements but deliberately chose to ignore them because they cannot be reconciled with core SRD/DMG statements on the nature of adamantine (especially the cost).--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 191930, member: 2013"] [b]Really?[/b] This may indeed be found in Drow of the Underdark, but I do not have access to that book. Frankly, I was of the opinion that such referred to "drow adamantine" (only). IOW, to create an adamantine sword takes at least 25 years of work? Based on the +9,000 gp cost, I find that extremely difficult to justify... assuming the minimum time of 25 years, that means the artisan is charging less than 1 gp/day of effort... one presumes that it takes some skill and effort to work in the high magic areas you refer to. It also assumes the craftsman is willing to defer payment for 25 years. I don't see it happening. It just doesn't fit, so I consider these statements to be irreconcilable with the remainder of the data and hence spurious. My personal opinion was that the statements you mentioned, while they might have come from "Drow of the Underdark," were completely inconsistent with statements about adamantine made in 3e, and so I ignored them. Admittedly, some of that probably comes from my bias that pretty much anything having to do with drow is by default, pure crap. But hey, at least I admit to having the bias, right? ;) Seriously, though, if I put the kind of strictures you suggest on there, the cost of adamantine in 3e should be several orders of magnitude higher... like 900,000 gp for a sword (at least). Part of doing guesswork is knowing what data to ignore. IOW, I was very aware of your statements but deliberately chose to ignore them because they cannot be reconciled with core SRD/DMG statements on the nature of adamantine (especially the cost). --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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