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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 555088" data-attributes="member: 151">Re: PlasticWell, if the issue is making it a big campaign secret to be revealed to the players, then having some of those items still remaining is no problem...merely rename the materials.Mithral, for example, might in reality be an aluminum alloy...but no one knows what aluminum is any longer, just that this a magic metal from the ancient days.  A rubber raft could be misconstrued as the skin of some strange beast no longer seen and so on.  Many of the plastics of today could easily be mistaken for other substances or unique ones, such as wood, ceramics and rare organic materials.Fiberglass, for example, might be 'elf-wood' or 'flake-wood'.  Thick solid plastic might be called 'flow-stone' due to it's properties of melting and reshaping or 'godswax' and so forth.  That many of the ancient materials can kill you if handled improperly would make them dangerous and less used.   "Aye, well, me father knew that stuff.  'Fairy ore', he calls it.  Tried to melt it down, and it made a foul smoke what nearly killed 'im and the 'prentices, too.  I'll nae go near it, and you won't if ya got any sense left in ya.  Leave it fer the damnable wizards, lad."</blockquote>