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| Scion_of_The_Eternal04-14-08, 10:12 AM | I'm just wondering, what is the color of adamantine? I once heard it is jet black. |
| Olween04-14-08, 10:21 AM | It is. It heard that it was meant to be the 'counter-weight' for the Mithril's very clear silver. |
| toucanbuzz04-14-08, 10:22 AM | Historically, I don't think the mythical adamantine ever had a color as it was a concept moreso that a real metal. Comics and artist renditions (non-D&D) have often presented this "indestructible" metal as silvery. I think the adamantine golem is jet black, and that probably means you're right. |
| M-bark04-14-08, 10:27 AM | Weird. I always imagined it as a kind of darker and shinier old green bronze. |
| Scion_of_The_Eternal04-14-08, 10:33 AM | That's a quick response. Yes, I often see it (or other similiar super metal, mostly outside DnD) descripted as silvery and adamant means diamond (which is clearly not black). |
| Seeker9504-14-08, 10:48 AM | From Google images: Adamantine (http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/1002/50243525.JPG) :tiphat: |
| Bloodsoul04-14-08, 04:18 PM | Have to say, I'm in the silvery-coloured camp myself. The only metals who's possible colours stood out to me was starmetal (green?) and cold iron (icy blueish silvery, perhaps?). Well, atleast I don't have to worry about my blackguard's bastard sword being the wrong colour. :D |
| Mock2604-14-08, 04:27 PM | From Google images: Adamantine (http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/1002/50243525.JPG) :tiphat: Adamantine has a couple of definitions. One refers to an especially hard substance, be it compsoed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Your picture is of the other, which is for a specific mineral. |
| Drackthor04-14-08, 04:32 PM | I picture Mithril as purple-ish or silver, and I imagine Adamantine as either darkish green or jet-black. DAMN YOU, RUNESCAAAAAPE! |
| Archangel_James04-14-08, 04:51 PM | I picture it as being black in appearance, but direct light shows its true colour of very dark green. |
| larry_the_titan04-14-08, 05:24 PM | I think I have let the one MMO I have ever played (Past tense for a reason) effect my thinking on this subject. I picture Adamantine as Dark Green and lacking a shine no matter how much work you put into it. Mithral is light Blue Purple and a good reflection even with very small amounts of polish. |
| Fuzzychan04-14-08, 05:58 PM | Mithral Mithral is a very rare silvery, glistening metal that is lighter than iron but just as hard. As for adamantine it doesn’t actually give a color, but in the epic level handbook the adamantine golem seems to be a dull grey creature. Adamantine is a meteorite (DMG pg. 283) so there isn’t a clearly defined color and therefore it is possible there are multiple colors for adamantine based on the meteorite it originated from. To sum up, it could be whatever color you want. |
| Flamegrape04-14-08, 06:23 PM | Adam Ant's color? I thought he was Caucasian? :rimshot: |
| MacrossSD04-14-08, 06:30 PM | :heehee FlameGrape As for my own opinion, I always pictured it as a dark metallic grey, sort of a gunmetal color. And I thought that adamantine was mined like any normal mineral -- that it was "starmetal" that came from meteorites...:confused: |
| Radiun04-14-08, 06:45 PM | http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm2_gallery/88268_620_19.jpg One of those is an Adamantine Horror... I'd say the black one |
| Edymnion04-14-08, 07:04 PM | I always pictured Adamantine as being a dark gunmetal color. Sort of like pewter, only darker. |
| green_yawgmoth04-14-08, 07:16 PM | I always pictured Adamantine as being a dark gunmetal color. Sort of like pewter, only darker. This is how I always pictured it. The WoW tooltip for adamantine ore is this same color, so that definitely had an effect on my perspective. |
| Edymnion04-14-08, 07:19 PM | This is how I always pictured it. The WoW tooltip for adamantine ore is this same color, so that definitely had an effect on my perspective.Dunno, I never played WoW. Last online game like that I played with mithril and adamntine in it was The Realm Online, where mithril was mint green, and adm was a kind of khaki blue. Although it was very easy to dye your gear in that game, so nobody ever kept to base colors for very long. |
| Naderion04-14-08, 07:21 PM | Have to say, I'm in the silvery-coloured camp myself. The only metals who's possible colours stood out to me was starmetal (green?) and cold iron (icy blueish silvery, perhaps?). Cold Iron is in fact regular iron, opposed to steel, which is normaly used to create blades. So I guess it's some shade of gray, but not as shiny as steel. Though a weapon from cold iron would be both cheaper and of lesser quality, I belive the high cost of cold iron comes from a "mystical forging process", that makes the iron as hard as steel, without changing the composition of the material (which is essential to make it hurt certain creatures). "Cold" simply means "forged not as hot as steel". :D |
| Evil DM Mk304-14-08, 07:21 PM | I imagine a black metal with a deep blue sheen. |
| Optimator04-14-08, 07:27 PM | I pictured it as super-duper dark green. So dark it looks black in most lights. |
| pigknight04-14-08, 07:33 PM | I never colored metals a specific color. |
| Cowczar04-14-08, 07:40 PM | I always pictured it as spruce green, or sometimes very dark green (depends on which seems cooler depending on the situation). |
| Bloodsoul04-14-08, 08:01 PM | Cold Iron is in fact regular iron, opposed to steel, which is normaly used to create blades. So I guess it's some shade of gray, but not as shiny as steel. Though a weapon from cold iron would be both cheaper and of lesser quality, I belive the high cost of cold iron comes from a "mystical forging process", that makes the iron as hard as steel, without changing the composition of the material (which is essential to make it hurt certain creatures). "Cold" simply means "forged not as hot as steel". :D I think it's the whole "cold" thing that makes me think of an icy bluish colour, well, that and I am reminded of "blue steel" (?), whatever that actually means. >_> ..and now I want to forge plaid-coloured metal. A plaid-axe for a lumberjack character. And I have to admit, I've wondered about what kind of qualities gold would have, but probably just for a royal figure who wants to look fancy and, like, not really fight. <_< |
| MrWildman04-14-08, 08:22 PM | I always pictured Adamantine as being a dark gunmetal color. Sort of like pewter, only darker. A better description than I could come up with. I also imagined Adamantine items as coarsely-worked, lacking fine details, proof of a hard-to-work substance. (Sort of like early Grenadier Miniatures :D ) Mithril is distinguished in my group by not only it's unearthly silvery sheen but by a detail we stole from Fred Saberhagen's Books Of Swords; subtle patterns in the metal, seeming to run deeper than the thickness of the blade. We also describe Mithril as almost humming with power, an eager vibratory whine more felt than heard, while Adamantine in contrast is associated with a deep "thudding" aura and muted sounds in the immediate area. Peace. |
| Olween04-14-08, 08:29 PM | If you have played Neverwinter nights; you can find some Adamantine there to craft weapon, and I think it is represented as a black blob of metal... |
| Nathreet04-14-08, 08:51 PM | iron looks exactly like steel, because steel is an iron alloy. Cold iron is a mythical material coming from a special iron ore and it's cold worked, which means no furnace. Regular (real) steel or iron may be cold worked, but it makes it hard, brittle and difficult to work beyond a certain point. The photo shown is of a diamond with "adamantine" luster. Adamantine can also mean aluminum oxide, aka anodized aluminum. This material is the 2nd hardest natural material after diamond. When used as a surface coat for aluminum, it is grey or black, though the grey version is often dyed different bright colors. It occurs naturally as ruby (impure) or sapphire (pure?). http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=adamantine&gbv=2 This google search shows a lot of different shades of grey for adamantine. And one brown pic. Polishing a material requires you to use a polishing grit that is at least as hard as (preferably harder than) the material being polished, so I can see why adamantine would rarely be shiny. |
| CryoSilver04-14-08, 08:57 PM | Adamantine is the color of awesome: whatever you think looks coolest is the color of your adamantine. |
| Dog_As_A_Devil_Deified04-14-08, 09:00 PM | Adamantium Golem http://sunsetvale.com/images/AdamantineGolem.gif I always thought the actual color varied by setting, because no one ever gave it a single official color. I think Eberron says it's black, and the MIC has a black adamantine waraxe (the Axe of Ancestral Virtue). |
| Toran_A_Sunder04-14-08, 09:11 PM | Like others I picture adamantine as a sort of dark grey/gunmetal color, but where gunmetal as a polished finish (besides showing fingerprints better than print dust) adamantine has a brushed finished, similar to pewter, but with a sort of sheen that, while not polished, none the less reflects light back better than pewter does. As for admantine in reality, here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantine) you have it |
| Nathreet04-14-08, 09:15 PM | Hm. I had a DM that sent an adamantine golem (CR 25) against our level 13-ish party. We ran... |
| sblaxman04-14-08, 09:41 PM | My vote is for gunmetal. Always imagined a dull, low luster, similar to lead (just w/ a smooth finish like steel w/o the luster http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/lead_metal.jpg |
| Clem-Da-Squig04-14-08, 11:02 PM | Adamantine is the color of awesome: whatever you think looks coolest is the color of your adamantine. QFT I don't know what color it is in real life, I only know of it through Wolverine, whose claws look silverey. |
| Turin04-14-08, 11:04 PM | Anyone who can dig up the Second Edition Drow of the Underdark, I believe there was a discussion of different adamantine colors. The drow had access to black-colored adamantine, other adamantine was green-gold or gray-gold, IIRC. |
| sblaxman04-14-08, 11:31 PM | Anyone who can dig up the Second Edition Drow of the Underdark, I believe there was a discussion of different adamantine colors. The drow had access to black-colored adamantine, other adamantine was green-gold or gray-gold, IIRC. Just flipped through it, didn't see anything in there about that (the 1991 2ed book). Adamantine is in it, but it never really mentions a color (though pretty much everything drow is black, so it's not an unsafe assumption. Maybe it was a different book you were thinking of. |
| Toran_A_Sunder04-15-08, 12:15 AM | Ok just a quick nit pick geek moment since this is the second time in this thread I've seen this. Please note that Wolverine's claws are made out of adamantium, which is a fictional "indestructable" metal. Adamantine is, in fact, a real metal. see my post on the previous page linking to the wiki article. That is all. Go about your business :P |
| Dog_As_A_Devil_Deified04-15-08, 01:39 AM | Ok just a quick nit pick geek moment since this is the second time in this thread I've seen this. Please note that Wolverine's claws are made out of adamantium, which is a fictional "indestructable" metal. Adamantine is, in fact, a real metal. see my post on the previous page linking to the wiki article. To nitpick your nitpick, adamantine is a stone, specifically a corundum, so basically a gemstone. |
| Neutronium_Dragon04-15-08, 02:26 AM | I always picture it as a dark purple. That was its color in the old TBS, "Master of Magic," and the notion has stuck with me ever since. |
| toucanbuzz04-15-08, 09:57 AM | Adamantite is the mythical indestructible metal, not to be confused with adamantine, the gemstone, and not to be confused with adamantium, the X-men material as noted earlier, and I'm adamant that you're okay making up a color for a mythical material that has no description other than what your imagination constructs. |
| _Jayne_Cobb_04-15-08, 10:21 AM | This is how I always pictured it. The WoW tooltip for adamantine ore is this same color, so that definitely had an effect on my perspective. Adamantine is blue in WoW. |
| sblaxman04-15-08, 11:07 AM | Just for more geekage... Adamant and Diamond both come from the same root word in greek (adamas.. "untameable"). The adamantine ore in real life is an aluminum oxide ore, it's a crystal technically... it's pretty darn hard but isn't a metal so to speak. The "adamantine" metal is fictional, though it has historical presidence (the word was used to describe anything that was just really strong). |