KingGolem
2008-02-08, 10:13 PM
This is just an idea I had while I was watching the History Channel.
Sunforged Iron
This strange metal has a sheen that looks like a delicate swirling pattern of red, orange, and yellow, and it is made when iron is smelted using magical lenses and an array of mirrors, which imbue it with some of the magical properties of the sun. Sunforged iron weighs 25% less than normal iron, and is very flexible and holds an edge well.
Whenever sunforged iron comes into contact with an undead creature, an ooze, or any creature that is somehow vulnerable to sunlight comes into contact with sunforged iron, that creature’s flesh begins to sizzle and burn, dealing 1d3 points of fire damage. This damage occurs with the slightest touch, and it is added to any attacks made with a sunforged iron weapon. If an undead creature, an ooze, or any creature that is vulnerable to sunlight is kept in contact with sunforged iron, then they take an additional 1d3 points of fire damage for each round of exposure.
All undead, oozes, and creatures that are vulnerable to light in some way are extremely uncomfortable around large ammounts of sunforged iron. If somebody is wearing armor made of sunforged iron, or is otherwise carrying more then 10 pounds of it on their person, then any creature that is vulnerable to the sunforged iron (as described above) must succeed on a DC 12 Will Save to enter the square adjacent to the creature wearing or carrying the sunforged iron. Any creature that succeeds on this save is immune to this effect for the remainder of the encounter.
If any undead creature that has the ability to bestow negative levels attempts to do so to any creature wearing sunforged iron armor, then that undead must succeed on a DC 14 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of fire damage and fail to bestow the negative level.
Sunforged iron has a hardness of 10 and 30 hit points per inch of thickness.
Ammuntion: +10gp
Light weapon: +150gp
One Hand Weapon: +225gp
One Head of a Double Weapon: +225gp
Two Handed Weapon: +300gp
Light Armor: +375gp
Medium Armor: +400gp
Heavy Armor: +450gp
Shield: +325gp
Background
The gnomish inventor and wizard Holdur Zingreegal once experimented with a way to more efficiently and cleanly forge metal, a method that could be used without using wood or coal. Though countless experiments led no results, he eventually though of the idea of using the magnified and reflected suns rays to forge the iron ore. He began to design experiments to test the possibility of this new way of smelting iron, but he soon encountered a problem. It would be extremely inconvenient and expensive to reflect enough sunlight to the iron ore to cause it to melt. However, he quickly came up with the solution. By placing a slight fire-based enchantment on a few large lenses and arranging these around the mass of the sunforged iron, he wouldn’t have to reflect as much light onto the iron ore mass. After about a month of gathering materials, he hired a dwarven construction team to build his “solar forge,” and it was quickly completed. When the iron ore was bundled together and hoisted to the top of the tower where all of the mirrors were aimed at, the fire-enchanted lenses did their job, and the iron quickly began to melt. The molten iron flowed down the apparatus and into several ingot-molds. However, when the iron had cooled, it was certainly not what Zingreegal had expected. The metal that was in the molds was of a reddish-yellow metallic sheen, and when they were lifted out of their molds, they were significantly lighter than what they should have been. Intrigued, Zingreegal had one of them forged into a sword. This sword, which he named “Sunfang,” was a weapon of exceptional quality. It was lightweight, flexible, and it held its edge very well. Furthermore, Zingreegal purchased a zombie from a necromancer to test his weapon on, and it seemed to burn the creature’s undead flesh. Zingreegal named this new metal “sunforged iron,” for which he won a sizeable research grant from both the mage’s guild he belonged to and the gnomish government.
So what do you think? I'm not sure about the pricing. Perhaps later I'll stat the solar forge. And by the way, I'm sorry about the poor formatting. This is the first time I've tried to post something like this on these forums.
Sunforged Iron
This strange metal has a sheen that looks like a delicate swirling pattern of red, orange, and yellow, and it is made when iron is smelted using magical lenses and an array of mirrors, which imbue it with some of the magical properties of the sun. Sunforged iron weighs 25% less than normal iron, and is very flexible and holds an edge well.
Whenever sunforged iron comes into contact with an undead creature, an ooze, or any creature that is somehow vulnerable to sunlight comes into contact with sunforged iron, that creature’s flesh begins to sizzle and burn, dealing 1d3 points of fire damage. This damage occurs with the slightest touch, and it is added to any attacks made with a sunforged iron weapon. If an undead creature, an ooze, or any creature that is vulnerable to sunlight is kept in contact with sunforged iron, then they take an additional 1d3 points of fire damage for each round of exposure.
All undead, oozes, and creatures that are vulnerable to light in some way are extremely uncomfortable around large ammounts of sunforged iron. If somebody is wearing armor made of sunforged iron, or is otherwise carrying more then 10 pounds of it on their person, then any creature that is vulnerable to the sunforged iron (as described above) must succeed on a DC 12 Will Save to enter the square adjacent to the creature wearing or carrying the sunforged iron. Any creature that succeeds on this save is immune to this effect for the remainder of the encounter.
If any undead creature that has the ability to bestow negative levels attempts to do so to any creature wearing sunforged iron armor, then that undead must succeed on a DC 14 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of fire damage and fail to bestow the negative level.
Sunforged iron has a hardness of 10 and 30 hit points per inch of thickness.
Ammuntion: +10gp
Light weapon: +150gp
One Hand Weapon: +225gp
One Head of a Double Weapon: +225gp
Two Handed Weapon: +300gp
Light Armor: +375gp
Medium Armor: +400gp
Heavy Armor: +450gp
Shield: +325gp
Background
The gnomish inventor and wizard Holdur Zingreegal once experimented with a way to more efficiently and cleanly forge metal, a method that could be used without using wood or coal. Though countless experiments led no results, he eventually though of the idea of using the magnified and reflected suns rays to forge the iron ore. He began to design experiments to test the possibility of this new way of smelting iron, but he soon encountered a problem. It would be extremely inconvenient and expensive to reflect enough sunlight to the iron ore to cause it to melt. However, he quickly came up with the solution. By placing a slight fire-based enchantment on a few large lenses and arranging these around the mass of the sunforged iron, he wouldn’t have to reflect as much light onto the iron ore mass. After about a month of gathering materials, he hired a dwarven construction team to build his “solar forge,” and it was quickly completed. When the iron ore was bundled together and hoisted to the top of the tower where all of the mirrors were aimed at, the fire-enchanted lenses did their job, and the iron quickly began to melt. The molten iron flowed down the apparatus and into several ingot-molds. However, when the iron had cooled, it was certainly not what Zingreegal had expected. The metal that was in the molds was of a reddish-yellow metallic sheen, and when they were lifted out of their molds, they were significantly lighter than what they should have been. Intrigued, Zingreegal had one of them forged into a sword. This sword, which he named “Sunfang,” was a weapon of exceptional quality. It was lightweight, flexible, and it held its edge very well. Furthermore, Zingreegal purchased a zombie from a necromancer to test his weapon on, and it seemed to burn the creature’s undead flesh. Zingreegal named this new metal “sunforged iron,” for which he won a sizeable research grant from both the mage’s guild he belonged to and the gnomish government.
So what do you think? I'm not sure about the pricing. Perhaps later I'll stat the solar forge. And by the way, I'm sorry about the poor formatting. This is the first time I've tried to post something like this on these forums.