Why do you need to craft steel plate armor before you can make the suit out of mithral?
That makes no sense.
5e Player’s Handbook, page 187:
Michael Johnson
Jason Reyes
It's actually just mithril-plating. Why do you think it costs less than Full Plate?
Juan Cook
>Mithral is actually incredibly hard to work
>The "enchantment" is actually just a permanent transmutation
Landon Evans
>Why do you need to craft steel plate armor before you can make the suit out of mithral?
You don't; they're saying that you spend the equivalent time, money, and effort prepping the mithril armor before starting the enchantment process.
But you probably already know this.
Hunter Thomas
>It's actually just mithril-plating
That can't be right, unless mithral is somehow lighter than air, making the plated armor lighter some way (since that's the effect of mithral armor).
Evan Collins
>Mithril is lighter than air
I dunno, this sounds like a potential winner of a concept.
>This is the reason it's so hard to smith and mine
>Allows things like land masses rich in mithril that have ascended, and either used as a base or plundered for the metal
>Airships and flying carriages
Mhm.
Gabriel Ward
Would you make the mithril armor out of some partially mithril alloy?
Or would you need to tie to down while you're not wearing it?
I don't know about you, but I lost a million balloons as a smaller person.
Juan Flores
The reason is that they don't give a shit about crafting and just slapped the rules for it together without a thought.
Isaac Allen
Godspeed, user, I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Ethan Baker
>> make something out of steel as a component for making that same thing out of mythril
>> makes the most sense
>c'mon
When mithral is seen as a magic item instead of a natural, non-magical metal, then yeah, it does make sense. Clearly mithral is what you get when you apply certain transmutation magics to steel equipment, otherwise why would it be a magic item instead of just a special material?
Mind you, I think it was stupid as fuck to make special materials into magic items in 5e, but that's what they did, so that's what we have to deal with (until I'm the DM, of course).