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I doubt the party has the materials needed to haul these doors around with them. Per Azaroth's previous post they are 30,687 pounds of admant, not to mention the door weight itself. Unless the party has a portable blast furnace they are not going to get the adamant into anything manageble in size or shape to haul it all out.

The doors have 62.5 cubic feet of platinum each, times 4 is 250 cubic feet. A single portable hole (value 20k) has a diameter of 6' and a depth of 10' for a total of 282 cubic feet.

Even admitting for 1 cubic foot in 10 by not melting it into nice blocks, that's still only 9 trips. Oh no.
And if you assume that in hacking the adamantine off the doors you waste 50%... 5 trips and still 50+ million gold... 10 million a trip.

As for blast furnaces, that's what 12th level wizards are pretty good at, actually :) Especially with empower and extend.

Don't let them sell the doors. Certainly not for 65 million gold, if they're merely plated. You could say that adamantine can't be worked any further once it's cooled - it's too hard - and for that reason, adamantine is only worth as much as the object it's made into.

Here's my math on the doors:

There are two sets of two doors, each is 15 foot by 50 foot by 1 inch thick. 1 inch is 1/12th of a foot, so 15 * 50 * (1/12) cubic feet.

That's 62.5 cubic feet of adamantine per door. However trade goods are measured per pound. Adamantine is the same density as iron (or adamantine items would weigh more or less than regular ones), which is 491 pounds per cubic foot. That's 30,687 pounds of adamantine per door.

On a conservative estimate, adamantine is worth double that of platinum as a trade good. PHB lists platinum as 500 gp per pound, so 1000 gp per pound.

That's 30,687,500 per door. Times four doors is 122,750,000 gp value.

Even if 50% of the value is lost in the breaking down and reselling process that's still 61 million gold.

After the iron ball fiasco, this is simply retarded.

Wolfgang Baur: I'z cheatin ur room, sellin ur adamantine.

-- Azaroth