What do you do to mithral?

[frankthedm]

Myself:

Crafting time uses the sp per week as everything else {big reason elves are the only ones who usually make this stuff]

For items larger than medium, weight by pound cost is the minimum an object will cost

Mithral Breastplate & Mithral fullplate keep thier Medium & Heavy distinctions.

Mithral Weapons are considered silver when it comes to overcoming DR/Silver.

Mithral blunt weapons do get thier to hit and damage penalized by one due to lack of weight. {A special 'curse' can add the proper weight removing the penalty].

 

[Darklone]

I mostly use it as "True silver"... more damage against DR/silver types. There are few special armors (similar to the celestial chainmail), but you can't simply craft some other armors with Mithral to make them a category lighter... scarcely anyone knows how to use it.

 

[Destil]

A) I spell it mythril, just like JRR.

B) I reduced the value of raw mithril 'ore' by a lot, instead it increases craft DC on items by +5. Most of the value of mythril equipment is the time and skill spent making them, not the metal. (is there really that much more metal in full plate vs a breastplate? Most of the armor costs do this already).

Mythril weapons tend to be fairly cheep (500-1000 GP for masterwork, with 1500 at the most on double weapons), armor not so much.

Mythril requires the normal armor feats (chain shirt light, breastplate meidum, fullplate heavy) and only is treated as one step lighter for speed reduction.

C) Mythril weapons are the way to overcome DR of demons, but dosn't do anything special vs. werewolves and such. Likewise cold iron only helps when dealing with fey and flametouched iron (Eberron) is needed for devils.

 

[CRGreathouse]

A) I spell it mythril, just like JRR.

Not in any copies of the LotR, the Hobbit, or the Silmarillion that I've seen.

`Then what do the dwarves want to come back for? ' asked Sam.
'For mithril,' answered Gandalf. `The wealth of Moria was not in gold and jewels, the toys of the Dwarves; nor in iron, their servant. Such things they found here, it is true, especially iron; but they did not need to delve for them: all things that they desired they could obtain in traffic. For here alone in the world was found Moriasilver, or true-silver as some have called it: mithril is the Elvish name. The Dwarves have a name which they do not tell. Its worth was ten times that of gold, and now it is beyond price; for little is left above ground, and even the Orcs dare not delve here for it. The lodes lead away north towards Caradhras, and down to darkness. The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane. Of what they brought to light the Orcs have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute to Sauron, who covets it.
`Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim. The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, which you saw upon the doors.

 

[green slime]

Not in any copies of the LotR, the Hobbit, or the Silmarillion that I've seen.

Maybe he was thinking of a different JRR?? James Rooney Rabbit the third?

 

[Darklone]

I've seen it written as mythril as well. Perhaps in some other editions or translations (I read it in English though. UK English edition?).

 

[Shades of Green]

I've once toyed with creating a setting in which Mithril was quite common, but with a catch: it was horribly rare on land, but found in large quantities deep below the sea (in the rocks of ocean-floor ridges). Once an expedition to the sea-floor (using Water Breathing spells/potions) discovered rich Mithril deposits in the deep ocean, the Dwarves moved in to mine them. At first they were able to mine Mithril only in the underwater roots of island, where it was of smaller quantities (digging tunnels from the island's surface until it reaches the Mithril deposits. Later on, using this Mithril to construct strong, large and light hulls, they've begun using steampunk submarines to build underwater colonies (sealed under-seafloor caverns with alchemically-recycled air) and to transport the precious material back to the surface.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I've seen it written as mythril as well. Perhaps in some other editions or translations (I read it in English though. UK English edition?).

I live in the US, and the versions I've read have the UK English spellings (colour, armour) and "mithril". I would be curious to see where the mythril spelling comes from -- if anyone has an idea I'd like to know.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I live in the US, and the versions I've read have the UK English spellings (colour, armour) and "mithril". I would be curious to see where the mythril spelling comes from -- if anyone has an idea I'd like to know.

I've noticed that as well. The edition I've currently got has UK spelling and says "Mithril" but I'd swear the old edition I had when I was in middle school spelled it "Mythril."

 

[CRGreathouse]

I've noticed that as well. The edition I've currently got has UK spelling and says "Mithril" but I'd swear the old edition I had when I was in middle school spelled it "Mythril."

Well, that's something. If two of you remember that spelling...

I'm still having trouble finding mention of it. The Encyclopedia of Arda doesn't mention any spelling but mithril. http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/m/mithril.html Wikipedia's entry mentions the other spelling only in connection with computer/video games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithril

Any thoughts?