so my players came to me with a question, could they take an existing metal armor set and enhance it with adamantine to get the immunity to crits? i already ruled that if i allow this, cloth and leather armor would not be able to get this enhancement aside from studded leather due to the metal components in that set, but in my mind adding trim or other portions of the metal armor to be adamantine wouldnt be unthinkable, kind of like paying that extra 100 gold to get your weapon enhanced with silver, what would you guys rule or would you even allow this?
so my players came to me with a question, could they take an existing metal armor set and enhance it with adamantine to get the immunity to crits?
Not in general, they'd probably have to remake it -- treat as crafting a new magic item, using the existing armor and the adamantine as the exotic materials, and with a rarity bump (i.e. if armor, +1 is rare, the adamantine variant would be very rare).
Adamantine Armor is a magic item, not typically just any old armor made of or reinforced with Adamantine. It typically requires the process of creating a magic item.
Adamantine isn't a coating, like silvering a weapon. It would require a high level smith with adamantite ore if they want to make it. You could require some kind of enchantment to make it or just a good skill role or just auto make it.
It's pretty good, be careful about dropping in a lot of +1's to +3's on it. Your players will never switch it out. I normally make it for tier of play the max admantine I'll put out is -2 to -3 max armor for that level I'm comfortable putting out (if max is ac 20 for armor, it would be ac 17 for admantine max for the party).
The others on this thread have answered the question pretty thoroughly, but I'd like to add one more thing: as a DM, I'd allow a player to turn leather armor into adamantine scale mail, as they add plates and tiles of the miracle material to the leather.
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so my players came to me with a question, could they take an existing metal armor set and enhance it with adamantine to get the immunity to crits? i already ruled that if i allow this, cloth and leather armor would not be able to get this enhancement aside from studded leather due to the metal components in that set, but in my mind adding trim or other portions of the metal armor to be adamantine wouldnt be unthinkable, kind of like paying that extra 100 gold to get your weapon enhanced with silver, what would you guys rule or would you even allow this?
armour is made from either normal metal (steel?) or adamantine.
I can't really see how you would add adamantine to existing armour without making the armour weight a lot more and be less useful.
Actually the term is "silvered weapons" (https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/equipment#SilveredWeapons) indicating that a layer of silver - with the rules stating that you are adding silver to an existing weapon.
Not in general, they'd probably have to remake it -- treat as crafting a new magic item, using the existing armor and the adamantine as the exotic materials, and with a rarity bump (i.e. if armor, +1 is rare, the adamantine variant would be very rare).
Adamantine Armor is a magic item, not typically just any old armor made of or reinforced with Adamantine. It typically requires the process of creating a magic item.
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Adamantine isn't a coating, like silvering a weapon. It would require a high level smith with adamantite ore if they want to make it. You could require some kind of enchantment to make it or just a good skill role or just auto make it.
It's pretty good, be careful about dropping in a lot of +1's to +3's on it. Your players will never switch it out. I normally make it for tier of play the max admantine I'll put out is -2 to -3 max armor for that level I'm comfortable putting out (if max is ac 20 for armor, it would be ac 17 for admantine max for the party).
The others on this thread have answered the question pretty thoroughly, but I'd like to add one more thing: as a DM, I'd allow a player to turn leather armor into adamantine scale mail, as they add plates and tiles of the miracle material to the leather.