Advice on special material weapons for really big creatures? ASAP would be nice. [Archive] - Wizards Community

Advice on special material weapons for really big creatures? ASAP would be nice. [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Khalarak Ironclaw
04-25-07, 04:00 PM I've made a CR 15 Huge Fire Giant to fight my players in tonight's game, and I'm buying equipment for him, since he's 'Elite'. I gave him Monkey Grip, so he's wielding a Gargantuan greatsword, and I wanted to make it adamantine, just to make it that much scarier. However, the DMG is silent on how to price weapons of that size that are made of special materials. It makes sense to me that that much more adamantine would be more costly to procure than that required to make a Medium greatsword, but I don't know exactly how much to increase the price by...100% per size category increase? 50%? Any advice would be hot.
Devlonir
04-25-07, 04:06 PM Ehm... arent there rules for pricing larger weapon and armor in the PHB or DMG? or does that only count for armor? If so, i'd say following the rules for special material weapons as well would be fair. If I'm right it was something like 20% per size category.. but just check your core books.
tarkin
04-25-07, 04:08 PM There are rules but it is doubleing( So says the SRD here:
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm#weaponqualities
)
, not a tiny little extra 20%.

Officially large sized weapons cost twice the amount of a Medium sized weapon.

I would say this concept works for both base weapon and for material cost.

The only question is do you use d20 multiplication or not?

I.E.

Is it:

Normal multiplication:
Medium sized Adamantine Greatsword x1: 3,050
Large sized x2= 6,100
Huge sized x2x2=x4= 12,200
Gargantauan sized x2x2x2=x8= 24,400 gp
Collossal sized x2x2x2x2=x16= 48,800 gp

Or

D20 Multiplication:

Medium sized x1= 3,050
Large sized x2 = 6,100
Huge sized x2x2=x3= 9,150
Gargantuan sized x2x2x2=x4= 12,200
Collossal sized x2x2x2x2=x5= 15,250

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From looking at the prices, I would say D20 Multiplication seems more reasonable to me.
Khalarak Ironclaw
04-25-07, 04:11 PM Hm, that makes sense. I was thinking in terms of pricing the weapon cost seperately from the special material cost, that's what was throwing me off I suppose. My thanks.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Khalarak Ironclaw 04-25-07, 04:00 PM	I've made a CR 15 Huge Fire Giant to fight my players in tonight's game, and I'm buying equipment for him, since he's 'Elite'. I gave him Monkey Grip, so he's wielding a Gargantuan greatsword, and I wanted to make it adamantine, just to make it that much scarier. However, the DMG is silent on how to price weapons of that size that are made of special materials. It makes sense to me that that much more adamantine would be more costly to procure than that required to make a Medium greatsword, but I don't know exactly how much to increase the price by...100% per size category increase? 50%? Any advice would be hot.
Devlonir 04-25-07, 04:06 PM	Ehm... arent there rules for pricing larger weapon and armor in the PHB or DMG? or does that only count for armor? If so, i'd say following the rules for special material weapons as well would be fair. If I'm right it was something like 20% per size category.. but just check your core books.
tarkin 04-25-07, 04:08 PM	There are rules but it is doubleing( So says the SRD here: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm#weaponqualities ) , not a tiny little extra 20%. Officially large sized weapons cost twice the amount of a Medium sized weapon. I would say this concept works for both base weapon and for material cost. The only question is do you use d20 multiplication or not? I.E. Is it: Normal multiplication: Medium sized Adamantine Greatsword x1: 3,050 Large sized x2= 6,100 Huge sized x2x2=x4= 12,200 Gargantauan sized x2x2x2=x8= 24,400 gp Collossal sized x2x2x2x2=x16= 48,800 gp Or D20 Multiplication: Medium sized x1= 3,050 Large sized x2 = 6,100 Huge sized x2x2=x3= 9,150 Gargantuan sized x2x2x2=x4= 12,200 Collossal sized x2x2x2x2=x5= 15,250 ----------- From looking at the prices, I would say D20 Multiplication seems more reasonable to me.
Khalarak Ironclaw 04-25-07, 04:11 PM	Hm, that makes sense. I was thinking in terms of pricing the weapon cost seperately from the special material cost, that's what was throwing me off I suppose. My thanks.