What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
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What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
Last session, my party acquired some obsidian daggers. They want to make some monster lore checks to see if they know what creatures are especially vulnerable to obsidian. I know they exist, but I can't remember which ones.
Anyone know offhand?
Anyone know offhand?
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You could also rule that Obsidian being volcanic glass and sharp as hell could do additional hp's pf slashing damage, although perhaps its susceptible to being shattered?
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Actually, one of the 2 versions of the werejaguar was affected by obsidian. And several Athasian monsters (Dark Sun) were affected by obsidian (but they wouldn't know much about those creatures).Rotipher of the FoS wrote:It's the recommended vulnerability for weretigers in VRGtWB, as an optional replacement for silver. Werejaguars are vulnerable to ebony, not obsidian.
Re: What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
Isn't it obvious? White walkers.
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Re: What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
I suppose technically any living being can be hurt by obsidian daggers.
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Re: What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
I had obsidian bypass the dementor's DR. You know the dementors from Harry Potter make nice Ravenloft monsters. With DR to obsidian.
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Re: What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
There are rules for obsidian items in the Dark Sun books. Yes, they break more easily.
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Re: What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
I was checking up on this in Pathfinder as well because they do have obsidian and it seems that they break easier..... but! Magic Obsidian weapons don't have the fragile quality.
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Re: What creatures are hurt by obsidian?
While it's counter-intuitive that it'd be weretigers, not werejaguars, that obsidian would harm, it does make sense from a Rule-Of-Scary perspective. Lycanthropes' damage resistance is supposed to make them more frightening, after all, and a werejaguar's typical victims would be from Mesoamerican-style cultures in which obsidian would be a very common material for ordinary weapons. It wouldn't be very scary if a classic European werewolf had DR/steel and could therefore be taken down with normal swords, would it?
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