Is glassteel closed WotC content?
IMNAwotcL, but I'm pretty sure it is. But that should stop you with inventing something similar to fit whatever need you're having.
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Hardening is OGL, thanks to the Artifice Domain, and can be used to simulate this effect. You could even make a lower level version that only affects glass, gemstones and crystal, if you want to keep it old-school and only have 'glassteel' and not hardened metals, cloth, leather, pottery, etc. as well.
While the spell doesn't say it, to the amusement of the folks on the CharOps forums who would gleefully use it to make infinite Hardness animated objects to beat people up with, I'd add a sentence 'The hardness bonus from this spell does not stack with itself. If this spell is cast on an item more than once, only the larger value applies.'
This actually just came up in conversation last week—it's not open content, I'm afraid.
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This actually just came up in conversation last week—it's not open content, I'm afraid.
Incidentally, do you have any plans that you are able to speak of where you would implement a functionally similar material? I understand limits with copyrights and IP issues but I doubt one company can really own the rights to the idea of a break/shatter resistant glass.
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I don't know why people worry about things like Glassteel, and whether they are officially OGL or not. I think most people now playing Pathfinder are experienced enough to convert or create things like Glassteel themselves. Pathfinder should not have to do everything for us, that's part of the fun for Players and GMs in an RPG, to make the system/rules their own. For example, I've had a number of different metals in my 20+ year old campaign world - mostly variations on steel alloys with different properties, such as dragonsteel (crafted by dragons), hornsteel (crafted by minotaurs), bluesteel (crafted by dwarves), white steel (crafted by elves), and bloodsteel (crafted by drow). I get why so many ask such questions,'cause if its official, it's easier to incorporate into your campaign and convince players to accept it. Just remember everyone, player and GM alike, part of the fun is to come up with your own twists and interesting things to make your campaigns exciting and novel.
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Of course, you can also simulate the effect by coming at it from the opposite direction. Instead of using Hardening to make glass as strong as steel, you could whip up a variant of Glassee to make steel transparent. :)
I've always liked the idea of making "force" windows. Much like the research they are doing on plasma materials on the VERY small scale now. I can imagine a wizard cooking up a lower level super miniaturized version of Wall of force that could be made permanent for windows and such. Maybe like a 2nd level spell, if that. 1 Cu. ft +1/Level.
Would make a neat door too :D
While the spell doesn't say it, to the amusement of the folks on the CharOps forums who would gleefully use it to make infinite Hardness animated objects to beat people up with, I'd add a sentence 'The hardness bonus from this spell does not stack with itself. If this spell is cast on an item more than once, only the larger value applies."
That line would be unnessecary. After all the spell has a permenant duration (not instanteous like say a cure or fireball) which means it can be dispelled. Also "like effect" rules already in the magic section would prevent stacking.
Is glassteel closed WotC content?IMNAwotcL, but I'm pretty sure it is. But that shouldn't stop you with inventing something similar to fit whatever need you're having.
I recall seeing something like a glasssteel spell in one of the Freeport books.
Did some double checking. There is a a glasteel spell (note the spelling difference there) for 3.0 in the Freeport: City of Adventure setting book. It's part of chapter six, the chapter that is declared to all be open content in that book. Comparing glasteel to the 2e glassteel spell, while the overall premise is the same, there are significant differences in the exact details between the two spells (like the level of the spell, how much is affected, the material components, and casting times.)
That reminds me... are did WotC keep the Avariel as theirs and only theirs, or are they an OGL race? I figure they're probably not OGL since they're Faerun-specific as far as I know, but I figured I'd ask.
That reminds me... are did WotC keep the Avariel as theirs and only theirs, or are they an OGL race? I figure they're probably not OGL since they're Faerun-specific as far as I know, but I figured I'd ask.
Sorry for the continued thread jack, but I believe that the "Avariel" belong to WotC. Personally, they should have left well enough alone and kept them as the Winged Folk, "Al Karak Elam". I played one waaay back in the day, was a blast too... Errok Prowdwing, I do so miss playing him. He was a fighter/psionicist (the old class from Dragon Magazine), dubbed himself as "A Warrior of the Arm and of the Mind".
Ok.. enough of my brief trip down memory lane.... back to your regularily schedualed thread...
That reminds me... are did WotC keep the Avariel as theirs and only theirs, or are they an OGL race? I figure they're probably not OGL since they're Faerun-specific as far as I know, but I figured I'd ask.
Avariel are closed content. Winged elves, on the other hand, cannot really be shut off.
Has anyone done a PF writeup for Winged Elves? I'd love to see it.
Sorry, it's not technically a TJ... Avariel did make Glassteel after all. >.>
I posted my conversion in the Conversions/Avariel thread
I posted my conversion in the Conversions/Avariel thread
link please?
I posted my conversion in the Conversions/Avariel threadlink please?
Wasn't hard to find, but here you go.
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderR PG/conversions/avariel