Glassteel

Made by avariels in an alchemical process requiring extensive knowledge of both metallurgy and glassblowing, glassteel combines strength beyond iron with the transparency of glass. Mostly used as a building material in gracious castles, glassteel can also be fashioned into weapons and armor. Glassteel is stronger and lighter than iron—but it’s immensely expensive.

Advantages:

Grants a nonmagical enhancement bonus to weapons and armor made with it.

Glassteel armor counts as one category lighter (although light armor is still light)

Spell failure chance is decreased by 10%

Maximum Dexterity bonus is increased by 2

Armor check penalties are decreased by 3

Non-weapon and non-armor items made of glassteel weigh half what they otherwise would.

Glassteel weapons and armor are hard to spot at a distance (–4 penalty on Spot checks), but just because armor is transparent doesn’t mean that the person underneath the armor is likewise concealed.

Glassteel has a hardness of 20 and 40 hit points per inch of thickness. Weapons and armor fashioned from glassteel are treated as masterwork items with regard to creation times, but the masterwork quality does not affect the enhancement bonus of weapons nor the armor check penalty of armor.

Glassteel Enhancement, Bonus modifier & Market Price

Light armor +1 +9,000 gp

Medium armor +2 +16,000 gp

Heavy armor +3 +25,000 gp

Shield +1 +4,000 gp

Weapon (1d4 or 1d6 damage) +1 +1,500 gp/lb.

Weapon (1d8, 1d10, or 1d12 damage) +2 +2,500 gp/lb.

Other items — +1,000 gp/lb.

Significance

Glassteel is mainly used by avariels because of it's lightness. Knowledge on how to make the stuff is a closely guarded secret by the avariel glassblower guilds.

Item type

Raw Material

Rarity

Very rare