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shadzar
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icyshadowlord wrote:I've had better DMs lately, and the old one seems to have improved to an extent.

And yeah, I'm well aware of the fact that when I'm at the DM seat, I can have anything have any property.

The thing is, I recall there being some Arms and Equipment guide with a few examples and some splatbooks as well.
i got one of my boxes out to read some of the brown books, if i find anything i will let you know, then maybe later this week i will bo through all the blue and green books if i have that much time to read.

odds are the magic items type books would have the most "materials" in them as they have weird names for everything and many are based on animal, vegetable, or mineral.

probably S&P, Tome of Magic, red steel campaign setting would have special materials. red steel had something that affected blood and caused mutations. also planescape and spelljammer could have thrown god knows what for "alien" or extra-planetary materials.
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Corsair114 wrote:In my experience, Cobalt is popular for pretty much anything having to do with ice magic in quite a few games.
Anything blue gets associated with ice in lots of games, but that's not even trying.

Cobalt is an ore named after goblins that releases toxic fumes when smelted, containing a secret metal that eluded discovery for centuries. That sounds like something someone would make up for a high-level crafting material in a video game, but it's real:
Wikipedia wrote:Miners had long used the name kobold ore (German for goblin ore) for some of the blue-pigment producing minerals; they were named because they were poor in known metals and gave poisonous arsenic-containing fumes upon smelting. In 1735, such ores were found to be reducible to a new metal (the first discovered since ancient times), and this was ultimately named for the kobold.
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Speaking of, Malachite and Azurite make for some gorgeous blues and greens.

Behold. You may weep with joy that the world contains such beauty, and none will hold it against you.

Edit: They're copper ores, by the by. Copper ores tend to be blue or green. Oxidation, yo.
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