a pseudo-mundane flyable adamantine bunker.


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I need build a "pseudo-mundane flyable bunker", and my first thinking was a full adamantine construction, but the cost make it impossible and too much heavy.
so I did a re-engineering. a structure of iron, wood (or darkwood) or mithril (maybe not), and a wall of adamantine sheet 1mm ((1.612 lb/ft^2) is a 483,6 gp/ft^2). then treated magically the wall like this. the result, a "lightweight" wall with 40 of hardness and virtually nothing hp.

it work? or how work it.

can i build double layer of a adamentine expanded mesh and steel sheet (or sometime other), and the hardness of adamantine mesh will protect the steel sheet?.

or simple mesh provide me total cover against proyectiles like arrows, bullets, bolts or spears.

and of flying system, or how as i build it, I have only one answer: "Spells".

thank.


Pathfinde Rules are a very limited simulation, and don't cover many things that exist in the real world. Complex material engineering is one of them.

From the rules on magical weapons and armor an item can only benefit from one special materies. i.e. it can have the properties of mithral or it can have the properties of adamantine but not both. I would expect that to apply to what you are trying to do.

The wall rules you quote a technically only applicable to those particular walls. It is fairly easy to imagine that the iron wall could use adamantine instead for increased hardness and hp, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that the dimensions would have to remain as described (in particular, 3" thick.)

There is also the issue that for the most part, cover works both ways, although there are some rules for things like arrow slits.

The biggest thing I would urge you to consider though is 'what if it works?' Lets say you are able to convince your DM to let you have your invulnerable flying bunker and you are able to destroy your enemies at will with no risk, why shouting out "I am the great and powerful turtle." The most likely result of this is that you, the other players, and the GM will become terribly bored with the game and it will die a sad death.

That isn't 'winning' Pathfinder, it is losing it.


Would you settle for a Cauldron of Flying made from adamantine [priced as heavy armor at least] and hardened with the Hardening spell? Add in a Fortifying Stone for extra goodness.
Minimum hardness 30, with 100 hp.
You get partial cover [+2AC] rather than total cover [+4AC].

/cevah


Whoa..was that a Wild Cards reference? :)


Axolotl wrote:
Whoa..was that a Wild Cards reference? :)

Not unless it's an armor plated wagon. :)

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