Wyrmbone (3.5e Equipment)

Wyrmbone
The bones of a wyrm or an great wyrm can be collected and made into a mighty weapon, with the right treatment such bones can be made as hard as adamantine, but with greater inherent power. A wyrmbone weapon look crude and archaic much like primitive weapons used by societies of old, it very organic and bony, often has a bleached yellowish tint but is extremely tough and harsh to the touch.

A wyrmbone weapon count as adamantine for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. When wielding a wyrmbone weapon, a creature gain a +8 bonus on intimidate check against dragon and creature with the dragonblood subtype. The first attack against a particular creature each round made with a wyrmbone weapon deal an additional 1d10 and one additional d10 for each enhancement bonus on the weapon. The damage dealt by this ability is typeless and is not multiplied by critical hits. A wyrmbone weapon automatically overcome damage reduction all creature with the dragon type (or augmented dragon and dragonblood subtype). A weapons made of wyrmbone gain a 10% discount on the flaming/frost/shock/corrosive and Keen/Impact enchantments.

Weapons made of wyrmbone cost +13,000 gp, and are always masterwork in nature.

While an armor cannot be made of wyrmbone, it is possible to reinforce a wyrmscale, dragonhide or metal armor with wyrmbone platings. Wyrmbone plating is rather light and incredibly resilient, increasing the armor bonus to AC by +3 but increasing the armor weight category by one (light to medium, medium to heavy). and doubling it weight Heavy armor can be fitted by wyrmbone, however it decrease it max dexterity bonus by 1 (minimum of 0), increase ACP by 2 and increase arcane spell failure by 15% as well as doubling it weight. Wyrmbone plating make all bludgeoning the wearer suffer nonlethal and grant improved resistance to the elements as per endure elements.

Wyrmbone plating cost 8000 gp for a light armor, 12,000 gp for a medium armor and 18,000 gp for an heavy armor.

Wyrmbone has 60 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 20.