Items made from coral, chitin, or sea shells are refined and shaped through various alchemical processes. While blight quartz cannot be worked into armor, the material can be used to augment melee weapons, as well as arrowheads, spear tips, and similar ammunition. Cryptstone has the same hit points and hardness as steel. A weapon, such as a warhammer, made of geranite gains a +1 circumstance bonus on attack rolls (ammunition can be made of geranite, but does not grant any bonus on attack rolls). This dull, coppery substance warps time around it, making things seem to speed up or slow down. If a creature’s damage reduction can be overcome by silver and/or good, regeneration stops functioning due to a silver/good attack, and/or those vulnerable to silver/good takes half again as much damage (+50%) from a celestial mithral weapon (additional dice damage, such as that from a burst special ability or sneak attack damage, is not increased). Latest Pathfinder products in the Open Gaming Store. Oozes, plants, and outsiders are immune to the deadly emanations of viridium. Bludgeoning weapons made primarily of vulcanized rubber also deal nonlethal damage and are sometimes flexible enough to wrap beneath clothes (+1 on Sleight of Hand checks made to conceal the weapon). This material has the strength and durability of steel while being as transparent as glass. (For example, a scimitar or breastplate can be made of sunsilver, while a quarterstaff or hide armor cannot.) The properly cured hide of a shark (or ray) is an excellent substitute for leather. Auras reduced below 1 Hit Die can’t be detected by means such as detect evil; the creature doesn’t detect as evil, though this has no effect on other aspects of the creature’s alignment. Starstone is often powdered and mixed with sulfur and other ingredients to manufacture the flash powder used in flashglobes. Its ancient name is lost to time, but modern explorers have dubbed it “serpentstone” after its ophidian creators. If an attack with a piercing or slashing blood crystal weapon hits a target suffering from a bleed effect, the creature takes 1 additional point of damage from the attack as the blood crystal drains blood from the wound. The majority of blight quartz deposits are no larger than the size of a human fist. Once 8 hours have past the deterioration is irreversible and after 24 hours out of water it is dry and brittle (hardness 0, 1 hp) and easily broken apart like any other dried plant. Building Constructs: When a construct’s materials consist entirely of the stone, its Craft DC increases by +5 , but the required Caster Level decreases by 1. Items not primarily of metal are not meaningfully affected by being partially made of this special material (a longsword can be a celestial mithral weapon, while a quarterstaff cannot). Also, druids can use darkwood buckler. Doing so costs an additional 200 gp per piece of ammunition or an additional 2,500 gp for a weapon. Although one would think it to be ideal for sea-going vessels, the extra expense and danger of obtaining the wood plus the fact that it is no more resistant to barnacles than ordinary wood has kept it from finding widespread use. When a weapon constructed of wyroot confirms a critical hit, it absorbs some of the life force of the creature hit. Craft Requirements mithral worth at least 50 gp Mithral Shield (Standard-Grade) Item 8 Source Core Rulebook pg. If an electricity effect would deal electricity damage to a target wearing rubber-coated armor, the armor confers to its wearer electricity resistance 10. Armor and shields cannot be made of blood crystal, as they would feed on the wearer’s own wounds. Noqual is light—half as heavy as iron, yet just as strong. This metal is blue-green and glows with great power that can poison those who sample of its might for too long or too directly. Why buy weapons or armor in games like this one? Spells and supernatural abilities that have special effects when cast on or used against creatures with evil alignments (even beneficial effects) have a 20% chance of treating an evil wearer as neutral instead. Furthermore, if used to sunder a weapon or strike an inanimate object the weapon deals an additional +1d6 points of damage. Additionally, any non-magical weapon made of cryptstone affects incorporeal undead as if it were a magic weapon, and weapons made of cryptstone that have the disruption special ability increase the DC of that ability by +1. Inubrix has 10 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 5. It's not magic. Growing in underwater forests in shallow waters, black seaweed is a relatively common commodity in coastal areas. The wearer of a suit of dreamtime armor gains a +2 resistance bonus on all saving throws against spells and spell-like abilities. For simplicity’s sake, similar or component metals such as brass, copper, or even tin can use the following rules, even though in reality bronze is both harder and more reliable than those metals. However, you can build a double weapon with each head made of a different special material. Armorsmiths can work with the hides of dragons to produce armor or shields of masterwork quality. Armor crafted from spiresteel protects the wearer’s essence, applying half of its armor bonus to AC against attacks made by incorporeal creatures. Umbrite seemingly absorbs light at a slow rate, causing shadows around it to deepen considerably. An item made from darkleaf cloth weighs half as much as the same item made from normal cured leather, furs, or hides. Beyond its capable performance as a metal, umbrite is remarkable for its light-absorbing qualities. The preserved skin of an angel retains a portion of celestial grace and can be crafted into leather, hide, or studded leather armor. Black seaweed is often used as a rope substitute by aquatic races, especially in construction of nets, due to its strength and resistance to seawater. It wouldn't be a force effect though. Check out our other SRD sites! Hot linite can eventually ignite objects, and cold linite in water quickly surrounds itself with a 1-foot-thick shell of ice. Cost 150 gp; Weight 40 lbs. Whenever the wielder of a metal weapon rolls a natural 1 on an attack roll against a creature wearing living steel armor or wielding a living steel shield, the item must make a DC 20 Fortitude save or gain the broken condition. Although no stronger than normal wood, its ability to withstand the corrosive effects of seawater make it a prized possession of aquatic races.