Talk:Mithreal

Mithral coins are twice the value of platinum!

To determine the additional price for the mithral (as compared to the normal item's price), use the non-mithral item's original weight and multiply that by 500 gp per pound.

Since the final product weighs half as much, mithral is 1Kgp/lb, which comes out to 20gp/coin. This implies that mithral is as common or even more common than platinum, since the latter isn't used as a raw material (only as a currency), while the former would almost immediately be used to make fancy stuff upon extraction (just ignore armor pricing in this calculation, because it is wacko, which it needs to be for mithral armor to be worth buying). Anyway, I just thought this was cute. -Slitherrr

Scratch the above calculation--it's 500gp/lb (given here), so it's exactly the value of platinum (and thus even more likely to be a more common metal). That's weird, but I guess we can handwave with wastage and labor costs -Slitherrr

Also, I never noticed before looking at this that Agile half-plate weighs five more pounds than regular half-plate. Whuh? -Slitherrr

I do not approve of this level of realism or attention to detail in my fantasy life --Msallen