Kazyan
2014-07-14, 02:51 PM
I'm starting a new campaign in my homebrew campaign setting, 118 years after the previous one that ended in the destruction of an Elder Evil. The Sign rusted metal objects, and almost all metal--except currency--fell apart in the Overwhelming Sign stage.
So, the people of the setting would have come up with an alternative for metal equipment since then. I would like to avoid changing game statistics of armor and weaponry, so the replacement material should be roughly as strong as iron and somewhat available.
A material derived from low-level monsters would be ideal, as the setting is heavily based on interactions with monsters and the population of civilized races (i.e. conventional LA+0 races) is small--somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 in the entire Material Plane. Currently, I'm thinking of using the chitin of Giant Ants or Gem Scarabs, but if something else is more accessible, I'll probably use that too.
Any ideas?
So, the people of the setting would have come up with an alternative for metal equipment since then. I would like to avoid changing game statistics of armor and weaponry, so the replacement material should be roughly as strong as iron and somewhat available.
A material derived from low-level monsters would be ideal, as the setting is heavily based on interactions with monsters and the population of civilized races (i.e. conventional LA+0 races) is small--somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 in the entire Material Plane. Currently, I'm thinking of using the chitin of Giant Ants or Gem Scarabs, but if something else is more accessible, I'll probably use that too.
Any ideas?