DnDWiki:Special Materials

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 book.

Special Material - Effect

• Abyssal Bloodiron - Cold Iron, +4 Critical Confirm
• Adamantine - DR, improved sundering
• Alchemical Silver - maintains weapon, and bane to lycanthropes
• Arandur- silver-blue with green shine; gnome material; mixed with blood of red or blue dragon
• Astral Driftmetal - 25% chance of working against incorporeal creatures
• Aururum - Pieces meld back together and repair themselves, if broken.
• Baatorian Steel - +1 to damage on slashing and piercing
• Baatorian Green Steel - Green; Counts as Wounding if magically enchanted; Mined in the Nine Hells
• Blended Quartz - -20% arcane failure rate
• Blood glass - volcanic crimson-hinted obsidian
• Blue Ice - +1 damage slashing weapons, Mythrial type armor but cold as ice
• Bronzewood - wood that can be made into plate armor and weighs 10% less
• Byeshk - purple sheen; overcomes DR of daelkyr
• Calomel - pale gray condensating metal, hard white ore; overcomes DR of fire subtypes
• Chitin - plate armor made from insect exoskeletons
• Cold Iron - 2x heavy has bane to magical creatures; deep-forged iron that harms chaotic creatures
• Crysteel - psionic superhard crystal-steel blend, surprise
• Darkleaf - special worked Darkwood made into light plate armor
• Darkwood - ½ normal weight of wood
• Deep Coral - ???
• Deep Crystal - ???
• Dendritic - armor made of growing crystal
• Densewood - ???
• Dlarun - bone-white ivory with green sheen; halfling material
• Dragonhide - can make metal armors that count as hide
• Duskwood - ???
• Elukian Clay - type of clay associated with the Elemental Plane of Water; removes weight penalty for swim checks
• Entropium - +2 max dex -10% arcane failure, +2 AC penalty and added weight.
• Fever Iron - reddish, deals fire damage
• Firebrass - gold-bronze metal with mithral stats
• Flametouched Iron - speckled rusty dark red ore, refined to shimmering silver
• Fyrite (Dragon 347) - metallic substance immune to heat, but takes double damage from cold
• Frystalline - Good aligned
• Gehennan Morghuth Iron - -1 attack, but poisons opponent
• Githsilver - what Githyanki swords are made of. AKA ferroplasm
• Green Starmetal - Mined from meteorites; Adamantine that deals 1d6 extra damage to outsiders.
• Hizagkuur - white magic reflecting metal
• Ironbark - ???
• Livewood - magical green hardwood that does not die when cut down, may contain dryads
• Mithral - Makes armors that weigh ½ as much, and count as a lighter type; silver-white; traditional elf material
• Mudane Crystal - ???
• Orichalcum - red copper-gold
• Pandemonic Silver - causes scream that makes others cower in strong winds
• Pearl Steel - functions better underwater than normal weapons
• Purple Mournlode - blighted purply ore, silver metal with purple streaks; overcomes DR of undead
• Rimfire Ice - Glows like torch, +1 cold damage, explodes 1d6 cold damage
• Riverine - ½ AC becomes deflection bonus; water enclosed inside a thin force wall; provides force affect
• Serren - Branch wood that has ghost touch
• Soarwood - lightweight wood used for building airships
• Solarian Truesteel - silvery iron; mined on Mt. Celestia
• Starmetal - See Green Starmetal
• Stygian ice - O SHI STYGIAN PITS; Deals wisdom rather than consitution damage
• Targath - Soft metal that when carried helps the bearer resist disease
• Thinaun - traps soul of those slain by it
• Truesteel - +1 on roll to confirm critical hits
• Urdukar - +2 DC on scry attempts per 5 lbs carried

References

• Abyssal Bloodiron - Planar Handbook
• Adamantine - Dungeon Master's Guide
• Alchemical Silver - Dungeon Master's Guide
• Arandur - Forgotten Realms setting
• Astral Driftmetal - Planar Handbook
• Aurorum - Book of Exalted Deeds
• Baatorian Steel - Fiendish Codex II
• Baatorian Green Steel - Arms & Equipment Guide
• Blended Quartz - Arms & Equipment Guide
• Blood Glass - Secrets of Xen'drik
• Blue Ice - Frostburn
• Bronzewood - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Byeshk - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Calomel - Magic of Eberron
• Chitin - Races of the Dragon
• Cold Iron - Dungeon Master's Guide
• Crysteel - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Darkleaf - Dungeon Master's Guide
• Darkwood - Dungeon Master's Guide
• Deep Coral - Stormwrack
• Deep Crystal - Expanded Psionics Handbook
• Dendritic - Arms and Equipment Guide
• Densewood - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Dlarun - Magic of Faerun
• Dragonhide - ??? - Dungeon Master's Guide
• Duskwood - Forgotten Realms setting
• Elukian Clay - Arms & Equipment
• Entropium - ??? - Reference Needed
• Fever Iron - Forgotten Realms setting
• Firebrass - Secrets of Xen'drik
• Flametouched Iron - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Fyrite - Dragon Magazine #347
• Frystalline - Book of Exalted Deeds
• Gehennan Morghuth Iron - Arms & Equipment Guide
• Githsilver - ??? - Reference Needed
• Green Starmetal - Complete Arcane
• Hizagkuur - Forgotten Realms setting
• Ironbark - ??? - Reference Needed
• Livewood - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Mithril - Dungeon Master's Guide
• Mudane Crystal - Expanded Psionics Handbook
• Orichalcum - ??? - Reference Needed(Skyrim elder scroll. Orcish metal dark green color)
• Pandemonic Silver - Complete Warrior
• Pearl Steel - Stormwrack
• Purple Mournlode - Magic of Eberron
• Rimefire Ice - Frostburn
• Riverine - Stormwrack
• Serran - Book of Exalted Deeds
• Soarwood - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Solarian Truesteel - Arms & Equipment Guide
• Stygian Ice - Frostburn
• Targath - Eberron Campaign Setting
• Thinaun - Complete Warrior
• Truesteel - Forgotten Realms - Nether Trilogy Book One
• Urdukar - Arms and Equipment Guide - Reference Needed