Getting bored of Mithral/Adamantine

[Miriad]

Are there any other crafting materials worth looking into? I am at a point where I am simply tired of using Mithral Breastplates and such.

[CaladanMoonblad]

Magic of Faerun has some more special materials, starting on page 177. Rules on heavy weapons (platinum, gold, etc.) as well Faerun metals like Arandur (sonic resistance) and Dlarun (frost resistance/frosty weapons), etc., each with a different resistance to a damage type. Some materials, like Fever Iron, add an additional +1 fire damage to a weapon just for being inherently strange. I like Living Metal too (it repairs itself).

It's all in the same gradient as Steel -> Mithral -> Adamantine... but it's more options.

[Alienist]

I don't think I've ever been excited about the material in use. It aways seems like an exercise in number crunching to get the most pluses, rather than actual roleplaying.

When bilbos mithril shirt is a priceless artifact thats cool. When you can buy them off the rack with pocket change, that's yawn inducing. Like it's way up there with worrying about what kind of wood your ten foot pole is made of.

[Alleran]

Pathfinder has a few interesting ones, such as Elysian Bronze.

Faerun adds at least half a dozen new materials.

[Nettlekid]

Google's pretty useful sometimes. (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19569550/Special_Materials_Index)

[Gavinfoxx]

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=12837

[Seharvepernfan]

These (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/special-materials), though my personal favorite, glassteel, isn't listed there.

[Gavinfoxx]

These (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/special-materials), though my personal favorite, glassteel, isn't listed there.

Problem is those don't have anything to do with D&D... which, in this forum, generally defaults to being the base assumption unless specified otherwise.

[Matticussama]

Most of those are easily imported into 3.5, though, even if they were created for PF. It requires DM approval, sure, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth considering. As a DM, I commonly import PF material usually with only minimal if any changes necessary.

[Andion Isurand]

The most costly and beneficial metallic material would probably be Oerthblood, from Dragon Magazine 351 pg 45.

[Seharvepernfan]

Problem is those don't have anything to do with D&D... which, in this forum, generally defaults to being the base assumption unless specified otherwise.

It's pretty much exactly the same.

[Jeff the Green]

I like Sentira. It functions like mithril and you can get a +5 Competence bonus to Concentration for only 4000 GP. Very nice for a caster, particularly beguilers, dread necromancers, cloistered clerics, and archivists.

[Miranius]

One of my favourites is Riverrine from Stormwrack. It`s effectively a wall of force, so indestructible by anything but very specific effects.
2 of them, disjunction and desintegration, can be avoided by using the "spellblade" enhancement for 6000 GP each, which leaves only a rod of cancellation or a sphere of annihilation that can do ANYTHING against that material.