Canon:Special Materials
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Special materials are metals, woods, stone, or other types of building material that isn't magical but has what could be considered magical properties.
This is a list of most of the special materials in the offical d20 books
Special Material - Effect
- Adamantine - DR, improved sundering
- Darkwood - ½ normal weight of wood
- Dragonhide - can make metal armors that count as hide
- Cold Iron - 2x heavy has bane to magical creatures
- Mithral - Makes armors that weigh ½ as much, and count as a lighter type
- Alchemical Silver - maintains weapon, and bane to lycanthropes
- Pandemonic Silver - causes scream that makes others cower in strong winds
- Thinaun - traps soul of those slain by it
- Baatorian Steel - +1 to damage on slashing and piercing
- Baatorian Greensteel - Counts as Wounding if magically enchanted
- Morghuth Iron - -1 attack, but poisons opponent
- Truesteel - +1 on roll to confirm critical hits
- Dendritic - armor made of growing crystal
- Astral Driftmetal - 25% chance of working against incorporeal creatures
- Blended Quartz - -20% arcane failure rate
- Bronzewood - wood that can be made into plate armor and weighs 10% less
- Chitin - plate armor made from insect exoskeletons
- Darkleaf - special worked Darkwood made into light plate armor
- Elukian Clay - removes weight penalty for swim checks
- Entropium - +2 max dex -10% arcane failure, +2 AC penalty and added weight.
- Urdukar - +2 DC on scry attempts per 5 lbs carried
- Aururum - Pieces meld back together if broken
- Frystalline - Good aligned
- Serren - Branch wood that has ghost touch
- Green Starmetal - Adamantine that deals 1d6 extra damage to outsiders.
- Blue Ice - +1 damage slashing weapons, Mythrial type armor but cold as ice
- Rimfire Ice - Glows like torch, +1 cold damage, explodes 1d6 cold damage
- Stygian Ice - deals wisdom than consitution damage
- Pearl Steel - functions better underwater than normal weapons
- Riverine - ½ AC becomes deflection bonus, provides force affect
- Abyssal Bloodiron - Cold Iron, +4 Critical Confirm
