SRD Talk:Adamantine

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Contents 1 Problem 2 Little Known Errata 3 Adamantine Shield 4 Appearance 5 Adamantine weapons with wooden parts

[edit] Problem

Just as a note; Doesn't drow forged Adamantine have a weakness to sunlight?--Cypresslyshra 00:51, 29 December 2006 (MST)

That limitation has been removed as of 3.0. —Sledged 11:29, 29 December 2006 (MST)

Curses his 1st edition book* Alright, thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cypresslyshra (talk • contribs) 12:30, 29 December 2006 (MST). Please sign your posts!

FYI, only material released under WotC's game license is posted here. Expansion material or specific settings may expand or contradict this entry. Either way, we don't have a license to them.--Dmilewski 11:33, 29 December 2006 (MST)

I also thought that an adamantine weapon had a +2 to attack and damage rolls, rather than a +1... Cerin616 12:33, 10, january 2008

Nope, and it's just a +1 to attack, not damage. Previous editions had adamantine as a quasi-magical substance, and weapons made from it were effectively the same as magic +1 to +5 weapons. —Sledged (talk) 10:42, 10 January 2008 (MST)

[edit] Little Known Errata

Apparently, the Special Edition DMG has the cost for adamantine shields at +2,000 gp. A bit of errata that never made it to the DMG errata doc. —Sledged 20:25, 25 January 2007 (MST)

Weird how that happens... --Green Dragon 22:43, 25 January 2007 (MST)

[edit] Adamantine Shield

Does an adamantine shield give a DR? Rowanalpha 12:09, 18 June 2007 (MDT)

No, instead it has the benefit of bypassing DR x/adamantine when you use it to perform a shield bash. With bucklers and tower shields, there's no benefit beyond hardness and hit points. In fact, the SRD tower shield is made from wood. So going strictly by the SRD, you can't have an adamantine tower shield. —Sledged (talk) 12:26, 18 June 2007 (MDT)

[edit] Appearance

Very simple question: what does Adamantine look like? MorkaisChosen 09:40, 7 December 2007 (MST)

Barring a description from an official source book, I'd say it has the same appearance as steel. But that's just my take on it. —Sledged (talk) 09:46, 7 December 2007 (MST)

I always pictured it as darker with more of a blueish shine, than steel. Cerin616 12:35 10, january 2008

[edit] Adamantine weapons with wooden parts

Can a weapon with wooden parts (a scythe, for instance) be made of adamantium? It doesn't say it clearly in description... --Thiregan 16.12, 13 January 2008 (UTC +2)

It does- "an arrow could be made of adamentium". So, yes. So long as at least part of it is metal (I assume glueing a paperclip to the idem does not count) --Sam Kay 07:27, 13 January 2008 (MST)

The real answer is up to your DM. The materials rules are fairly vague and particularly hand-wavy. --Dmilewski 08:56, 13 January 2008 (MST)

The sentence that reads:

Items without metal parts cannot be made from adamantine.

implicitly states that the only requirement is that the item in question have a metal part. So you can have an adamantine scythe. And since the scythe was specifically mentioned by Thiregan, I'm guessing that he was wondering if the same rules as to what items can be made from mithral apply to adamantine. They both have different stipulations because of the benefits they each provide.

Also, "adamantium" is the fictitious metal in Marvel comics (most notably known as the stuff that coats Wolverine's skeleton). "Adamantine" is the fictitious metal in the d20 system. (Previous editions also had "adamantite" which was a different grade of the same stuff.) —Sledged (talk) 18:27, 13 January 2008 (MST)