Atom Ant: A 1960’s era cartoon superhero.
One trick I’d like to try out in 3.5 is using wounding weapons. Get a double weapon with both ends wounding and a level or two in exotic weapon master to get the flurry feat. Watch thine enemy’s Con drop like a rock. Maybe even use some Con draining poison to compound the whole mess. 
Hey smiling bandit, what happened to your time stamp mastery? 
Specifically, the super-tough substance generally referred to as “diamond”. Other substances mentioned by Tolkien include mithril and its various alloys, which seems to be aluminum; elven-glass, about which we know only that Eärendil’s ship was made partly from it; and tilkal, a mystical and apparently indestructible metal made by Aulë from iron, lead, tin, copper, silver, and gold for the great chain Angainu which bound Melko (AKA Melkor AKA Morgoth).
So, about damage reduction: There are no longer beasts resistant to +1 weapons, say, but not to +2? That seems a bit odd, to me. As does this concept of “epic damage reduction”… By the time you get to that point, you just do so much damage per attack that you overwhelm the damage reduction, and don’t worry about the plusses.
Damage reduction works thusly - if your weapon doesn’t have the necessary properties to cut through, then X points get shaved off your damage. Properties include Adamantine (for hard things), Magic (for magical creatures), Epic (for really tough magical creatures), Good (for Evil Creatures), Silver (for Lycanthropes, some demons), Cold Iron (Fey and some demons), Evil (for Good Creatures), etc.
And no, you don’t generally overwhelm Epic DR with your mundane attack damage. There are Epic DRs in the 50 or 60 range. Higher, I think, but I don’t have the book here.
Not that I’ve seen. One of the big changes in v.3.5 was a general decrease in the number of points of damage reduction that various creatures have. Even epic magic armor of Great Invulnerability, which used to have DR going all the way up to 25/+5, now maxes out at either 15/magic or 10/epic.
WHAT?!? :eek:
That’s partially true - I forgot that the Epic Level 3.5 Update booklet revised each specific monster’s DR downward. For the record, the current DR champs in the Epic category are Very Old Prismatic and Force Dragons, at 25/Epic.
Which, incidentally, is still enough to wipe out almost all damage from a typical very potent attack. But you can conceivably power through it, with Power Attack and the like. But not well.
I was thinking more along the lines of siege weaponry, Colossal transmuted chunks of lead, falls into not-quite-bottomless pits, and the like. I mean, who would attack a Very Old force dragon with a hand-held weapon? That’s just silly.
And tracer, mithril is lightweight, silvery in color, exceedingly valuable, versatile in alloys, chemically reactive, and used in the manufacture of synthetic gemstones. Plus, it’s so rare in pure form that a single suit of armor made by the dwarves is worth as much as the whole Shire, and yet the Elves had an abundant enough supply that they were able to make whole ships out of the stuff. Aluminum fits, on every point.
The wish was:
“I wish that I can acquire the powers of the Cat Lord”.
Well, she spent 7 years being taught by the Lord. It was one in demihuman years (to the rest of the party).
Aluminum doesn’t make for Good armor, if I understand its metalugerical properties correctly.
Silver’s for Devils, actually.
Demons have X/Good or Cold Iron (Weakest, like the Dretch or the Quasit), X/Good (Vrock or Bebelith) or X/Good and Cold Iron (The Balor and Marilith). I’m a little surprised Succubi are under X/GoCI, rather than just X/Good, but they seem to be at the cutoff, so…
Devils have X/Good or Silver (Lemures and Imp), or X/Good (Erenyes or Osyluth) or X/Good and Silver (Pit Fiend and Cornugon).
Quite correct. A chainmail shirt made from Aluminum would be nearly useless against cutting weapons - significantly worse than a conventional steel mail shirt.
But if you look more closely, you’ll find that pure mithril is, in fact, unsuitable for use in weapons and armor. Bilbo’s shirt and the like were actually made from an unspecified alloy of mithril. And while I can’t accept a pure aluminum hauberk, I can accept that the dwarves knew of an aluminum alloy unknown to us.