I would have to agree with Lord Nethys that the text would indicate to price according to normal weight.
I am less sure that was the intent however.
Price the item based on its weight pre-mithral state (IE: before halving).
Your God of Knowledge,
Nethys
Making a small mithral dagger costs 252 gp, and it's masterwork. Basically any weapon weighing half-a-pound is better to just make out of mithral.
This also leads to some "funniness" in the opposite direction. For example, a short spear weighs 3 pounds. But only the head would actually be Mithral.
So what your saying Brf is that all polearms cant benefit from special materials since all polearms are not primarily of metal.
That is what I am reading, but this is case where the RAW do not make logical sense.
Not all "special materials", just Mithral.
The benefit of Mithral is to make the weapon lighter. If the weight of the weapon is primarily of wood, then the mithral weapon would not be much lighter.
Well, now it's both lighter and can overcome DR/silver.
Well, now it's both lighter and can overcome DR/silver.Not all "special materials", just Mithral.
The benefit of Mithral is to make the weapon lighter. If the weight of the weapon is primarily of wood, then the mithral weapon would not be much lighter.
Yeah, no one really cares about making the weapon lighter. :) DR/silver is surprisingly common.
DR/silver? Where does it say that?
Oops. I see it. Next sentence down from "Items not primarily of metal are not meaningfully affected by being partially made of mithral."
It's easy to miss. In 3.5 mithral did not overcome DR/silver.
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Since then an FAQ has been posted explaining how to price out Mithral items.
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This thread is 5 years old.
Since then an FAQ has been posted explaining how to price out Mithral items.
It's rarely necessary to necro threads as old as this.
Probably not necessary, but I still learned something. I had no idea mithral weapons worked on DR/Silver!
This thread is 5 years old.
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There's been a lot of that today :)
Interesting to see my post. Still don't agree with that intent, but it certainly was the rule.
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Probably not necessary, but I still learned something. I had no idea mithral weapons worked on DR/Silver!This thread is 5 years old.
Since then an FAQ has been posted explaining how to price out Mithral items.
It's rarely necessary to necro threads as old as this.
Have you never looked in the Core Rulebook?
Be nice Nef - it's a new rule (as of 2009) - lots of people don't know silver bludgeoning weapons don't subtract 1 damage either.
This thread is 5 years old.
Since then an FAQ has been posted explaining how to price out Mithral items.
It's rarely necessary to necro threads as old as this.
There needs to be a reason?
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There needs to be a reason?This thread is 5 years old.
Since then an FAQ has been posted explaining how to price out Mithral items.
It's rarely necessary to necro threads as old as this.
Go back to your crypt!!
I just don't see how, if you've been playing this game for years, one wouldn't know how a special material from the CRB worked.
It's a special material that is usually too expensive for a low-level character, and is then superseded by magic weapons nearly immediately afterward.
Furthermore, in previous editions, since mithral didn't overcome DR/silver, its use was kept mainly for armor and armor alone--where its value remains even when magic armor becomes affordable.
Therefore, the chance of naturally coming across a mithral weapon is quite low, and in most campaigns, relatively pointless. Thus, there is no reason for most players and GMs to revise their knowledge of mithral over 3.5.
No, it's not that. Once you know about it, you know enough to use it. But if you don't know about it, there's isn't much to happen to make you learn the rule.
*Turn undead thread*