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<blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 2175807" data-attributes="member: 607">On the issue of the Adamantine Doors from The Forgotten Forge:1 - There's no way short of a Portable Hole to get them out of the ruins, since the only way out is a small hole that leads to a vertical shaft and is located 6' off the floor.2 - The entire ruin is property of House Cannith, being an ancient forge, and they'll probably frown on cutting out chunks of such an archaeological find.3 - A 6-pound adamantine battlexe costs 3010 gp, whereas a 1-pound adamantine dagger costs 3002 gp. You can see here that the ammount of adamantine used has next-to-no bearing on the value of an item, it's the craftsmanship that costs so much. One possible explanation for this is that you'd need a special super-hot forge, expert smiths and secret techniques to forge adamantine, so even if you drop a 1000-pound chunk of adamantine on a buyer's lap, you'd get little in return. At most, if a buyer could be convinced to use the doors as-is (and cut a fitting hole in his house to put them), you'd get around 6000 gp for the set of double doors.4 - Same goes for a warforged with adamantine body: you'd need som many special tools to extract, refine and reshape the adamantine from its body that it wouldn't be cost-effective to do it.In the case of a warforged, the PCs' best bet would be to stick it into a bag of holding and sell the inert body back to House Cannith, although that still counts as body trafficking by the Code of Galifar (warforged are treated as any other sentient race, with equal rights and protection).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Klaus, post: 2175807, member: 607"] On the issue of the Adamantine Doors from The Forgotten Forge: 1 - There's no way short of a Portable Hole to get them out of the ruins, since the only way out is a small hole that leads to a vertical shaft and is located 6' off the floor. 2 - The entire ruin is property of House Cannith, being an ancient forge, and they'll probably frown on cutting out chunks of such an archaeological find. 3 - A 6-pound adamantine battlexe costs 3010 gp, whereas a 1-pound adamantine dagger costs 3002 gp. You can see here that the ammount of adamantine used has next-to-no bearing on the value of an item, it's the craftsmanship that costs so much. One possible explanation for this is that you'd need a special super-hot forge, expert smiths and secret techniques to forge adamantine, so even if you drop a 1000-pound chunk of adamantine on a buyer's lap, you'd get little in return. At most, if a buyer could be convinced to use the doors as-is (and cut a fitting hole in his house to put them), you'd get around 6000 gp for the set of double doors. 4 - Same goes for a warforged with adamantine body: you'd need som many special tools to extract, refine and reshape the adamantine from its body that it wouldn't be cost-effective to do it. In the case of a warforged, the PCs' best bet would be to stick it into a bag of holding and sell the inert body back to House Cannith, although that still counts as body trafficking by the Code of Galifar (warforged are treated as any other sentient race, with equal rights and protection). [/QUOTE]

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