I think you could reasonably tell them that the magical forging process for adamantine fuses it in it's shape, so they can't break it down to sell or make their own weapons. They could get creative and use an arm as an adamantine improvised club/great club or maybe work hard to crack the face off to make an adamantine shield.
I.e. Ore can be processed and forged. Items cannot be smelted and reforged.
If you want to give them extra loot, have it crack open on death and have gems fall out. I hear diamonds are in high demand. ;)
At the level that pcs can kill adamantine golems, the value of their gear's materials is kind of moot wouldn't you say? Let em have it and they'll think you're super generous.
Edit: Especially since they'll need to already have an adamantine vorpal weapon, or 50k for miracle/wish spells to actually down the things.
At the level that pcs can kill adamantine golems, the value of their gear's materials is kind of moot wouldn't you say? Let em have it and they'll think you're super generous.
Edit: Especially since they'll need to already have an adamantine vorpal weapon, or 50k for miracle/wish spells to actually down the things.
Adamantine is good enough to bypass the DR. Vorpal is questionable at best.
Then again, I've been in groups that managed to do so without either. Took a lot of sweat, teamwork, and a LOT of rounds of combat.
As far as harvesting goes. Adamantium isn't iron or steel.. It's not a simple matter to melt down a golem for raw materials.
At the level that pcs can kill adamantine golems, the value of their gear's materials is kind of moot wouldn't you say? Let em have it and they'll think you're super generous.
Edit: Especially since they'll need to already have an adamantine vorpal weapon, or 50k for miracle/wish spells to actually down the things.
Adamantine is good enough to bypass the DR. Vorpal is questionable at best.
Then again, I've been in groups that managed to do so without either. Took a lot of sweat, teamwork, and a LOT of rounds of combat.
An adamantine golem is nearly impossible to destroy. Even if reduced below 0 hit points, its fast healing continues to restore hit points, though the golem is helpless unless above 0 hit points. It can only be permanently destroyed if reduced to negative hit points and then decapitated using an adamantine vorpal weapon—alternatively, miracle or wish can be used to slay it while it is at negative hit points.
Gotta be adamantine + vorpal, or miracle/wish.
At the level that pcs can kill adamantine golems, the value of their gear's materials is kind of moot wouldn't you say? Let em have it and they'll think you're super generous.
Edit: Especially since they'll need to already have an adamantine vorpal weapon, or 50k for miracle/wish spells to actually down the things.
I would let miracle work for free, I don't think killing an enemy after it has already been downed is as powerful as what it describes as costing 25k.
wish on the other hand.
My guess is they will just end up bashing them so far into the negatives that it will take time to fast heal it all back. That's what I would do.
The DR is 15/ Epic and it has an ability similar to tarrasque where it can only be killed by adamantine vorpal weapon, or a miracle/wish.
Adamantine is good enough to bypass the DR. Vorpal is questionable at best.Then again, I've been in groups that managed to do so without either. Took a lot of sweat, teamwork, and a LOT of rounds of combat.
Thing is... you don't always have to destroy your opponent to triumph over it. If you bypass it, put it out of action, or do any other alternative so that it's no longer between you and what you have to do... that's still a victory.
Yes but continued fast healing is going to make the idea of harvesting mats moot.
Before anyone goes on about "shearing off bits while its down" I counter with gm fiat can easily T1000 this sucker
What if the keep it alive but at -1000000000000000000.
Then they harvest each arm as it regens or something. Infinite adamantium!
I'd say the fast healing works by terminator 2 rules, with the adamantine liquifying flowing away and reforming
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The answer is... does it work for your game?
If yes, allow it.
If no, don't.
Say your PCs are already fairly rich and you believe the extra treasure will extend too far their wealth by level.
You simply say whatever method comes to mind that does not allow them to recover the metal treasure.
But, say, your PCs need to fund a kingdom and they hear of an ancient adamantine golem and you want them to fund the kingdom. They quest to kill it to pay to keep the kingdom running... then you come up with some way to allow them to do so. Maybe an ancient artifact mcguffin from who-knows-where allows you to accomplish the feat... once.
The Golem's body has some costs when creating it.
Subtract a bit of the worth because it is damaged and mixed up in metals and has to be sold at scrap value, rather then at new-material-cost.
So i'd halve the worth of a used golem body at half unbroken worth, and then they can sell it at half value. If they go through the trouble of getting it to a smeltery that can break down the mixed up metals.