SPECIAL NOTICE
Malicious code was found on the site, which has been removed, but would have been able to access files and the database, revealing email addresses, posts, and encoded passwords (which would need to be decoded). However, there is no direct evidence that any such activity occurred. REGARDLESS, BE SURE TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS. And as is good practice, remember to never use the same password on more than one site. While performing housekeeping, we also decided to upgrade the forums.
This is a site for discussing roleplaying games. Have fun doing so, but there is one major rule: do not discuss political issues that aren't directly and uniquely related to the subject of the thread and about gaming. While this site is dedicated to free speech, the following will not be tolerated: devolving a thread into unrelated political discussion, sockpuppeting (using multiple and/or bogus accounts), disrupting topics without contributing to them, and posting images that could get someone fired in the workplace (an external link is OK, but clearly mark it as Not Safe For Work, or NSFW). If you receive a warning, please take it seriously and either move on to another topic or steer the discussion back to its original RPG-related theme.

Protecting Adamantine from sunlight In AD&D2e

Started by GeekyBugle, June 17, 2023, 11:24:12 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 2
User actions

Ghostmaker

#15
June 19, 2023, 06:59:21 AM
Sell it to a wizard for experimentation. 'Hey, maybe you can be the one to crack the code on this.'

But yeah. Drow adamantine is specifically 'coded' so you can't take it out of the Underdark. Honestly, I would allow the party to sell or trade it off in exchange for gear that doesn't start disintegrating in sunlight.

Venka

#16
June 20, 2023, 05:34:12 PM Last Edit: June 20, 2023, 05:36:02 PM by Venka
Quote from: Chris24601 on June 19, 2023, 01:45:54 AM
If you're being etymological about it, the melt temperature isn't that high.

Adamant is just the Greek word for Diamond.

Diamond has an absurd melting temperature.  What OP is asking about is the alloy of steel and adamantite that the Drow use, called Adamantine, a dark and flexible alloy.  This is separate from Adamantium, which is the heavy and dark indestructible metal.

Adamantine stuff needs to be exposed to unspecified "Underdark radiations" or, after several weeks, it will lose its magical properties.  If it's exposed to sunlight for a couple rounds (minutes), or is subject to several even brief exposures over a few minutes, it turns into a powder (I had this incorrect in a prior post and corrected it).



In any event, I did find the spell I half-remembered, but it doesn't help with GeekyBugle's goal of gifting it to a king.  The spell is called Cloak of Dark Power, and it lasts a mere 3 rounds plus 1 round per level.  Sadly, it's a creature target buff, not an object target buff- so while it will protect you and your worn items for sure, RAW, you'd be very hard pressed to find a way to make it permanent (your best bet would be to be a wizard and do the research to add it to the list of permanency things and find a way to cheat out a casting of the normally-Lolth-priestess-specific spell).  More importantly, you won't be able to hand it over to someone else, as a gift, even if you somehow made all this work, as the cloak of dark power only hits you, the caster, and seems to be very likely to stop working on items when you let them go (you could argue that RAW it affects the items for the full duration if you started holding them, but it seems a bit of a stretch).
Print
Go Up Pages 1 2
User actions