Something I've been tinkering with for my campaign, is an immersive and interactive way for my PC's to enhance their gear. I'm already implementing a couple of facets that are listed in another forum post I made. But I sat up last night in a state of sleep deprivation induced creative mania, and used a combination of word and excel to create a list of various alloys, amalgams and smelts(metal, mineral and stone combinations) for the creation and enhancement of gear by the players since they like the crafty bits I've added so far. There's a special way to make nearly all of them. A couple are just incredibly rare but occur naturally. Like Haelite, i took the cliche idea of "Sky metal" from meteors and took it three steps to the left, Haelite is a crystalline, ice like mineral that can be found in a few meteors that don't burn up on impact. It's color shimmers between several shades of blue and it's grown by adding water to Haelite shards.
Skylode, is an impure form of Lodestone that doesn't point north. It does however, draw in nearly all nearby electrical charge; static, natural lightning, magical electricity, ect. A person in steel plate armor on a 25 foot tall ladder, doused with water and holding a lightning rod in their hand, could be near a piece during a thunderstorm, and every bolt that tried to strike the rod or its holder would get pulled away to strike the Skylode.
Carbonidium is a smelt made up of large amounts of Carbon, mixed with shards or fractures of Obsidian with a lightweight stone like pumice or mica as a backing for it. Now you have materials to make a lightweight weapon that's literally razor sharp (fun fact:obsidian is used to make surgical scalpel blades IRL) retains its edge as well as quality steel, and has incredible durability.
Rhytolite is an unstable pink crystal that grows near the lairs of Purple Dragons. These nasty (un)natural growths can explode if hit hard enough or jarred to forcefully. Like the salt equivalent of a landmine.
Feysteel; an incredibly rare alloy made for or at the behest of a faerie that desired steel weapons or armor without that nasty side effect of Iron poisoning. Its a truly unique form of steel made with no iron at all in it. The excess of cobalt used to make it rendered this steel a beautiful pale blue even before being finished.
Polar Lucite; this is the closest we can get to Haelite occurring terrestrially. Polar Lucite is created when ice or water runoff from the Everfloe Glacier comes into contact with lava or molten metal (like in a forge) The result is a gorgeous, royal blue crystalline material that resembles deep, blue obsidian. It retains nearly all of the unearthly chill of its glacial parent, and contact with uncovered skin can lead to frostbite in less than a minute.
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...Ehhh, whatever. It was a dumb idea anyways
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Something I've been tinkering with for my campaign, is an immersive and interactive way for my PC's to enhance their gear. I'm already implementing a couple of facets that are listed in another forum post I made. But I sat up last night in a state of sleep deprivation induced creative mania, and used a combination of word and excel to create a list of various alloys, amalgams and smelts(metal, mineral and stone combinations) for the creation and enhancement of gear by the players since they like the crafty bits I've added so far. There's a special way to make nearly all of them. A couple are just incredibly rare but occur naturally. Like Haelite, i took the cliche idea of "Sky metal" from meteors and took it three steps to the left, Haelite is a crystalline, ice like mineral that can be found in a few meteors that don't burn up on impact. It's color shimmers between several shades of blue and it's grown by adding water to Haelite shards.
Skylode, is an impure form of Lodestone that doesn't point north. It does however, draw in nearly all nearby electrical charge; static, natural lightning, magical electricity, ect. A person in steel plate armor on a 25 foot tall ladder, doused with water and holding a lightning rod in their hand, could be near a piece during a thunderstorm, and every bolt that tried to strike the rod or its holder would get pulled away to strike the Skylode.
Carbonidium is a smelt made up of large amounts of Carbon, mixed with shards or fractures of Obsidian with a lightweight stone like pumice or mica as a backing for it. Now you have materials to make a lightweight weapon that's literally razor sharp (fun fact:obsidian is used to make surgical scalpel blades IRL) retains its edge as well as quality steel, and has incredible durability.
Rhytolite is an unstable pink crystal that grows near the lairs of Purple Dragons. These nasty (un)natural growths can explode if hit hard enough or jarred to forcefully. Like the salt equivalent of a landmine.
...Ehhh, whatever. It was a dumb idea anyways
Feysteel; an incredibly rare alloy made for or at the behest of a faerie that desired steel weapons or armor without that nasty side effect of Iron poisoning. Its a truly unique form of steel made with no iron at all in it. The excess of cobalt used to make it rendered this steel a beautiful pale blue even before being finished.
Polar Lucite; this is the closest we can get to Haelite occurring terrestrially. Polar Lucite is created when ice or water runoff from the Everfloe Glacier comes into contact with lava or molten metal (like in a forge) The result is a gorgeous, royal blue crystalline material that resembles deep, blue obsidian. It retains nearly all of the unearthly chill of its glacial parent, and contact with uncovered skin can lead to frostbite in less than a minute.
...Ehhh, whatever. It was a dumb idea anyways