There is an option for immunity or resistance to "Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine". However, I cannot find in the lists of items what an adamantine weapon is, or what special properties it would have.
Any ideas?
Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I couldn't work out where it should be.
So far this session, I have killed three pets, four teammates, and only hit the enemy once, and my fire bolt didn't work against a creature immune to fire. Trust me, you NEVER want to borrow my character or my dice.
It's simply a weapon made out of adamantine, an ultra-hard ferrous metal. There's no official way to obtain one in the core books, but Xanathar's Guide to Everything does have an optional rule for crafting them similar to the rules for silvered weapons.
Adamantine is not a metal (you could be thinking of mithral). Adamantine is a gem, a bit like diamond, and it is at least as strong as diamond. (it really exists in real life. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantine_Spar.)
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So far this session, I have killed three pets, four teammates, and only hit the enemy once, and my fire bolt didn't work against a creature immune to fire. Trust me, you NEVER want to borrow my character or my dice.
Adamantine is not a metal (you could be thinking of mithral). Adamantine is a gem, a bit like diamond, and it is at least as strong as diamond. (it really exists in real life. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantine_Spar.)
In D&D, adamantine is a metal
Adamantine is an ultrahard metal found in meteorites and extraordinary mineral veins.
Also, adamantine spar is actually a crystaline form of aluminium oxide, making it a metallic crystal. It's not exclusively a gem, because gem isn't a geological term (like hot vegetable isn't a botanical term) and thus isn't mutually exclusive with being a metallic compound. It's instead an aesthetic term for a 'precious or semi precious stone'.
Finally, diamond is four times as hard as corundum, which is the general group of minerals to which adamantine spar belongs.
A 'Metal' refers to a substance with a very high proportion (90-95%+) of the atoms making it up being metal atoms. Adamantine spar (Mohs rating 9, diamond has 10, so yes, it is less hard than diamond, sorry, my mistake) is made of aluminum oxide, which means that it has 2 atoms of metal to 3 of oxygen. This means that Adamantine is an ionic compound, and not a metal.
A complete aside, but technically the very thin transparent layer on the surface of aluminium drinks cans is chemically and physically the same as adamantine (just it is a very thin layer -- this layer of aluminum oxide is what prevents your fizzy drinks can blowing up when it touches water (this is handy if you want to drink a can of cola))
In the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons, Adamantine is an extremely hard exotic metal. Adamantine weapons can easily deal damage to golems and tough inanimate objects.
Sorry, but it appears that you were right about its use in DnD, though that is just that Wizards of the Coast didn't check up on what they were adding, so changed adamantine into a metal, when it should be a gem.
So far this session, I have killed three pets, four teammates, and only hit the enemy once, and my fire bolt didn't work against a creature immune to fire. Trust me, you NEVER want to borrow my character or my dice.
A 'Metal' refers to a substance with a very high proportion (90-95%+) of the atoms making it up being metal atoms. Adamantine spar (Mohs rating 9, diamond has 10, so yes, it is less hard than diamond, sorry, my mistake) is made of aluminum oxide, which means that it has 2 atoms of metal to 3 of oxygen. This means that Adamantine is an ionic compound, and not a metal.
You're confusing a 'pure' metal such as iron, with a metallic compound such as iron oxide (rust). Adamantine spar is a metallic compound and is generally not considered a gem (a semi-precious crystal). Something can be metallic compound and not a pure metal.
Also, the Mohs scale isn't a linear spar, diamond is four times harder than adamantine spar, which is a big difference.
A complete aside, but technically the very thin transparent layer on the surface of aluminium drinks cans is chemically and physically the same as adamantine (just it is a very thin layer -- this layer of aluminum oxide is what prevents your fizzy drinks can blowing up when it touches water (this is handy if you want to drink a can of cola))
In the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons, Adamantine is an extremely hard exotic metal. Adamantine weapons can easily deal damage to golems and tough inanimate objects.
Sorry, but it appears that you were right about its use in DnD, though that is just that Wizards of the Coast didn't check up on what they were adding, so changed adamantine into a metal, when it should be a gem.
Adamantine has been used as a mythical metal (much like mithril/mithral) for a long time. That doesn't mean it 'should' be a gem, fictional elements often overlap or come to overlap with real world ones all the time.
Adamantine has been used as a mythical metal (much like mithril/mithral) for a long time. That doesn't mean it 'should' be a gem, fictional elements often overlap or come to overlap with real world ones all the time.
Especially since many scientists are nerds who are into sci-fi and fantasy stuff, and keep naming real things they discover after fictional things.
There is an option for immunity or resistance to "Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine". However, I cannot find in the lists of items what an adamantine weapon is, or what special properties it would have.
Any ideas?
Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I couldn't work out where it should be.
It's simply a weapon made out of adamantine, an ultra-hard ferrous metal. There's no official way to obtain one in the core books, but Xanathar's Guide to Everything does have an optional rule for crafting them similar to the rules for silvered weapons.
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Here ya go: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/xgte/dungeon-masters-tools#AdamantineWeapons
Adamantine is not a metal (you could be thinking of mithral). Adamantine is a gem, a bit like diamond, and it is at least as strong as diamond. (it really exists in real life. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantine_Spar.)
In D&D, adamantine is a metal
Also, adamantine spar is actually a crystaline form of aluminium oxide, making it a metallic crystal. It's not exclusively a gem, because gem isn't a geological term (like hot vegetable isn't a botanical term) and thus isn't mutually exclusive with being a metallic compound. It's instead an aesthetic term for a 'precious or semi precious stone'.
Finally, diamond is four times as hard as corundum, which is the general group of minerals to which adamantine spar belongs.
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A 'Metal' refers to a substance with a very high proportion (90-95%+) of the atoms making it up being metal atoms. Adamantine spar (Mohs rating 9, diamond has 10, so yes, it is less hard than diamond, sorry, my mistake) is made of aluminum oxide, which means that it has 2 atoms of metal to 3 of oxygen. This means that Adamantine is an ionic compound, and not a metal.
A complete aside, but technically the very thin transparent layer on the surface of aluminium drinks cans is chemically and physically the same as adamantine (just it is a very thin layer -- this layer of aluminum oxide is what prevents your fizzy drinks can blowing up when it touches water (this is handy if you want to drink a can of cola))
EDIT: Just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant, and it says that
Sorry, but it appears that you were right about its use in DnD, though that is just that Wizards of the Coast didn't check up on what they were adding, so changed adamantine into a metal, when it should be a gem.
You're confusing a 'pure' metal such as iron, with a metallic compound such as iron oxide (rust). Adamantine spar is a metallic compound and is generally not considered a gem (a semi-precious crystal). Something can be metallic compound and not a pure metal.
Also, the Mohs scale isn't a linear spar, diamond is four times harder than adamantine spar, which is a big difference.
Adamantine has been used as a mythical metal (much like mithril/mithral) for a long time. That doesn't mean it 'should' be a gem, fictional elements often overlap or come to overlap with real world ones all the time.
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Especially since many scientists are nerds who are into sci-fi and fantasy stuff, and keep naming real things they discover after fictional things.
Oh heck yeah, I didn't even think of that!
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