One of my players wishes to make his magical breastlplate armor inro mithril in order for it to become mithril. Is that possible? If so, how and how much would that cost?
One of my players wishes to make his magical breastlplate armor inro mithril in order for it to become mithril. Is that possible? If so, how and how much would that cost?
Limited Wish+ would do it.
you cant change the type of metal i think maybe the alchemist has some pazzaz up his sleeve. just sell the armor and buy myrthil version. honestly I have no idea I just hate to see threads go unanswered
By RAW? No way.
However, as a GM I'd allow an alchemical transformation of the material of the armor to be accomplished by finding a skilled alchemist, and allowing the player to pay the cost of the mithral plus 50% or some other reasonable fee.
Maybe if he could convince an alchemist or wizard to reasearch the properties. Reasearch a spell maybe and work with your gm but granted it would be high level. I would say it would maybe be something equilvent to ironwood spell but having materail components costing 5000 plus the masterwork cost of the armor. Plus the cost of casting that high a level a spell. NPC wizards can research spells and would make sense This might also have you perform a quest for this wizard as part of this could work as a plot hook.
As best I can tell, this is an entirely GM call. If there are specific rules about this, I can't find them.
In MY campaign world, most "special material" items are steel alloys mixed with a small amount of the "special material." I would probably allow someone to reforge their existing magical breastplate into a mithral breastplate, resulting in a magical mithral breastplate.
This would require a capable armorsmith with the Craft Magic Arms and Armor feat, 4,000 GP for the cost of the mithral and forging of it (I get this price from how much it costs to make a medium suit of armor mithral), and a certain amount of time (probably roughly half the time it would take to make a masterwork breastplate from scratch). This assumes there is an adequate supply of mithral available.
That's just how I'd handle it though.
There are two ways of going about this. Both are creating a spell using the guidelines in the Ultimate. One spell you change the metal from one type to another. Probably 7th level to do this, maybe higher. The other is transfer the enchantment from one suit of armor to another. This would probably be 4th or 5th level spell.
Changing metal should be expensive. Can't have people turning cheap metal into into mitheral and making a profit.
The enchantment isn't such a big deal. You'd be forking out for masterwork suit of armor to transfer the enchantment to so I'd keep the component cost lower than changing one metal into another.
One of my players wishes to make his magical breastlplate armor inro mithril in order for it to become mithril. Is that possible? If so, how and how much would that cost?Limited Wish+ would do it.
That sounds good. . .
I'd also add in the price of the mithral armor (4,000 gp) -- otherwise it would be strictly a good idea to use limited wish to make an armor mithral.
So, assuming you have no one in the party who can cast limited wish. . .
level 7 * caster level 13 * 10 + 1,500 material component + 4,000 difference in price - 150 masterwork = 6,260 gp.
This might not be a bad idea if the armor is particularly expensive (like a +4 or +5).
edit: forgot about masterwork costs. . .
I hate to pick nits, but the cost of MW is already incorporated into the cost of Mithral:edit: forgot about masterwork costs. . .
That's why I made the edit. I subtracted the cost of masterwork (150gp) from the final costs.
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sounds like a good adventure to me. Find a crazed alchemist whose capable of doing it but wants the adventurer's to do something for them (prebuilt alchemist in the adventurer's armory because why do more work) and after a decent quest offers to upgrade the PC's gear with his strange chemicals, one of which will offer the same benefits of mithril armor.
Could do all kinds of great adventures with a hook like that. :)