It should have something akin to the rust monster’s armor destruction effect. DC 15 con save on contact. If you fail, your nonmagical bones are weakened and your AC is reduced by 1. Fail 5+con mod saves and your bones are consumed and you become a puddle of skin-wrapped organs and muscles.
tl;dr The “default” presentation of Adamantine Armor in the DMG is a magic item, the “default” presentation of adamantine weapons in Xanathar’s is they’re nonmagical.
Personally, I’d say that since it’s an imaginary material with supernatural properties, it’s inherently magical and thus anything made from it is too but that’s just me making sense 🤷
It should have something akin to the rust monster’s armor destruction effect. DC 15 con save on contact. If you fail, your nonmagical bones are weakened and your AC is reduced by 1. Fail 5+con mod saves and your bones are consumed and you become a puddle of skin-wrapped organs and muscles.
Wait… Who the hell has the magical bones?!
Wolverine
But not the claws, since adamantine weapons aren’t magical, but adamantine armor is.
Huh? Is that a real rule? 🤨
Sort of, but more just mocking a small inconsistency in the default presentation of the items. In the DMG is the magic item Adamantine Armor, but that doesn’t necessarily mean all armor made with adamantine is magical, that’s just a specific example they’ve provided. Likewise in Xanathar’s Guide we got rules for weapons made with adamantine. They are not inherently magical but that doesn’t mean you couldn’t have a magic weapon made of adamantine, that’s just not a specific example they provide directly in the rules on adamantine weapons. You can view more discussion on it here https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/92657/are-weapons-and-armor-made-of-mithral-or-adamantine-considered-magical and here https://www.sageadvice.eu/why-is-an-adamantine-armor-a-magical-item-while-a-adamantine-weapon-is-just-one-made-with-a-diferent-material/ as well as reddit, xitter, etc.
tl;dr The “default” presentation of Adamantine Armor in the DMG is a magic item, the “default” presentation of adamantine weapons in Xanathar’s is they’re nonmagical.
Thanks for the explanation 🙂
Personally, I’d say that since it’s an imaginary material with supernatural properties, it’s inherently magical and thus anything made from it is too but that’s just me making sense 🤷
Dave. He’s cool.
Not Dave from accounting though. That guy sucks. His bones are subpar too.
Wait, you guys are getting magical bones?
I suppose aasimar and tieflings might have naturally magical bones…
And if Gale from Baldurs Gate 3 is anything to go by, wizards have magical boners.
As long as they put on their…
…robe and wizard hat?
Maybe turn the puddles into undead minions, if I recall correctly there’s a monster that is just flesh and organs reanimated