Mithril Weapons vs Silver

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#1

Viagramancer

May 18, 2015 12:06:55

              So I was just curious getting back into 5th ed I have been away a while. But I noticed that when Mithril weapons are described it is a metal that is a fine silver. I tend to run campaigns like Ravenloft where silver weapons are a very important aspect. I was wondering if Mithril should be treated as silver weapons or do to the fact the metal is a different metal should it have the same effect or not? Would appreicate any help with this question.

#2

OoftaMeg

May 18, 2015 12:53:36

Viagramancer wrote:
#3

transcendantviewer

May 19, 2015 18:18:11

I ran into this problem in the Adventurer's League. There's no stats for Mithral weapons at all, so all we got out of a Mithral Spear was a few gold. Nothing else. As much as I love meeting new people to hang out with, I don't like just how many missed opportunities happen in public play.

#4

OoftaMeg

May 19, 2015 18:45:50

I suspect there were optional rules at one point for mithral and adamantine weapons that just didn't make the final cut.  With some of the adventures being written before the official rules were finalized, some things like this were bound to fall through the cracks.

 

I have mixed feelings about it ... the concept of different metals for different weapons is kind of cool but then people writing monsters for the books seem to think they have to write monsters where you need a special weapon to damage a creature.  It got to the point in 3.5 where you had to have a golf-bag full of different weapons ... it was annoying.

#5

QwertyAzerty

May 20, 2015 11:53:05

it's not only the writter, some of those vulnerabilities exist in the real world literature.

Lycanthrope were vulnerable to silver WAY before DnD.
Fey are also vulnerable to iron (true that in 3.5 it was cold iron, since regular iron is too easy to get by)
Holy weapon against demon and undead (and desecrated weapon against angels)

Flesh golem (Frakenstein) being vulnerable to fire and super charged by lightning etc...

Those are not created by the DnD wirtter, those are from myth and culture that existed before DnD ever existed. The DnD writter simply took those and converted to the system of DnD.