My GM requested that I put this question to the board.
How much are you folks charging for a adamantine vial? I'm using it to protect my potions for alchemical allocation.
I suggested 150-200gp, the price of 2-3 adamantine arrow heads.
Anybody wish to share what they are doing in their campaigns?
Thanks
Wouldn't steel be just as reasonable a vial option? Seems quite pricey for a single vial. I'd figure the amount of material would be 1-2 arrow heads because, really, you can make that stuff quite thin without losing durability.
As for my games, the idea of destroyed potions never came up; they might as well be in vials of pure diamond for all it effects the game.
I agree, steel should be durable enough (the main problem with potions and vials is the shatter spell).
Still, if you want an adamantine vial I think twice or thrice the price of an adamantine arrow head should be about right.
I'm going to have potions worth 2-3000gp,and would like to protect them. I have a "evil" GM who may want to try and sunder a steel vial,so I figured I'd go for adamantine.
Thanks for the feedback.
I once calculated them to be 1,200 gp and 1 sp, with 20 hardness and 5 hit points. I believe I did this by calculating the difference between mithral and adamantine armor of light, medium, and heavy varieties, doing some mathomancy and then applying my findings to the 500 gp per lb Mithril has for Other Items.
You can also just put them in a bag of holding or something, and only take them out when you need to use them.
I would probably increase the price a to 300 or so.
You not only have to have the material, you have to get it into the shape you need.
Pounding and cuting something into an arrow head shape and then sharpening an edge seems like it would be much easier than pounding something into a vial shape.
But if someone threw a huge fit about it, I wouldn't consider it that big a deal.
I would probably increase the price a to 300 or so.
You not only have to have the material, you have to get it into the shape you need.Pounding and cuting something into an arrow head shape and then sharpening an edge seems like it would be much easier than pounding something into a vial shape.
But if someone threw a huge fit about it, I wouldn't consider it that big a deal.
A smith would just pour the adamantine into a mold after smelting it to achieve that kind of shape. The ammo price would probably best fit this, seeing as how there really isn't a price per pound cost on this kinda stuff
... A smith would just pour the adamantine into a mold after smelting it to achieve that kind of shape. The ammo price would probably best fit this, seeing as how there really isn't a price per pound cost on this kinda stuff
I can't find it now, so it was probably 3rd party or previous revision, but I remember reading somewhere that you couldn't melt adamantine without powerful magic elemental blast furnaces. But there is nothing in RAW that I could find about it at the moment. So yeah, you could probably drop my comments.