Arsenical Brass
Tier: 0
Complexity: 1
Crafting Time: 2
A type of bronze or brass-like copper alloy that uses toxic arsenic instead of tin or zinc, Arsenical Brass is much more useful in armor and weaponry due to its greater hardness and versatility than normal bronze or brass. However, due to the presence of Arsenic, it is also incredibly dangerous to
Properties
Physical & Chemical Properties
- Workable
- An item made with this material has 1 additional component slots for the purposes of honing or tempering.
- Malleable
- When making an item out of this material, you have advantage on the check.
- Additionally, the crafted item has disadvantage on break item checks, but advantage to repair the item.
- Durable I
- Whenever the item has to make a break item check, it adds 1d4 to the roll.
- Conductive
- While wielded, lightning spells or attacks are used while within 30 ft of the wielder, the spells or attacks have disadvantage to hit other targets and advantage to hit the wielder.
- Light
- No strength requirement or hindrance for any armor or item made with it.
- Ammunition made of this material can be shot double the distance than normal, but attacks with the ammo has disadvantage to hit.
- Toxic
- When this material enters the blood stream, such as by ingestion or the lacing of a blade, the target must make a Fortitude saving throw or become poisoned for 1 week. This poison cannot be rid of by normal means, except by the proper medication or magic. For each subsequent strike on a creature with this item, if it fails the saving throw, it gains 1 level of Exhaustion.
Origin & Source
Recipe
- 3/4 copper
- 1/4 arsenic
Type
Metal
Value
7 gold 5 silver per ingot
Rarity
rare
Color
reddish silver
Melting / Freezing Point
1772
Density
8.15
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