Special Materials

The following special materials are available in the Beyond Empires campaign setting, in addition to the special materials in the Pathfinder RPG.

Bronzewood
This exceptionally hard wood is useful in the manufacture of armor and weapons. Unlike most woods, bronzewood can be used to fashion armor and weapons normally made of metal - it is somewhat shapeable during manufacturing, and can take and keep an edge. Although dense and weighty compared to other woods, bronzewood is still lighter than steel: Items weigh 10% less when made from bronzewood rather than metal.

Breastplate, banded mail, splint mail, half-plate, and full plate can be made from bronzewood. Although bronzewood can replace metal in most weapons, chain weapons such as the spiked chain or flail cannot be made from it. Weapons made from bronzewood have no special characteristics apart from their lighter weight.

Bronzewood has 20 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 10.

Estherian Silversteel
Estherian silversteel is a metal alloy created by the ancient Estherian civilization. It holds an exquisite shine and is immune to the effects of rust, including magical rusting such as from the spell rusting grasp or the touch of a rust monster.

Items made from Estherian silversteel are always of masterwork quality. As the techniques used to forge silversteel were lost with the collapse of their civilization, newly-forged silversteel weapons can only be crafted using materials scavenged from Estherian ruins. To determine the cost of an item constructed from Estherian silversteel, add 10 gp per pound to the price of a masterwork item. Estherian silversteel has the same statistics as normal steel, including weight, hardness, and hit points.