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[Abyssal Squid]

Steam-powered diamonds, how cool would that be?

[Dasleah]

quote:Originally posted by Neonivek:
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Though I wonder who coined the term Adamantium first... Dungeons and Dragons or X-men</STRONG>

Marvel comics has the first use of the word 'Adamantium' in July 1969, and Chainmail didn't appear until 1971, and even then I'd wager it didn't appear until AD&D - and even then, in D&D it's called 'Adamantine' instead, so they share the same root, but aren't necessarily the same metal.

[/nerd]

[ May 16, 2008: Message edited by: Dasleah ]

[NikkTheTrick]

quote:Originally posted by Kidiri:
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It is the hardest known natural material. There are only four materials that are harder. I would hardly call it brittle.</STRONG>

Glass is also hard. But it is also brittle. In fact, it is pretty hard to have brittle soft things.

That said, a diamond armor would require MANY diamonds. Each one is pretty small. To have a plate of them, one needs many. And what would cement them together? It also needs to be very hard.

Now, glass and gem-tipped arrows and bolts, however, should have very good damage. Perhaps, make them as good as iron or even steel ones are?

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by Dasleah:
<STRONG>Marvel comics has the first use of the word 'Adamantium' in July 1969, and Chainmail didn't appear until 1971, and even then I'd wager it didn't appear until AD&D - and even then, in D&D it's called 'Adamantine' instead, so they share the same root, but aren't necessarily the same metal.</STRONG>

*Wikis* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant

"Throughout ancient history, "adamantine" referred to anything that was made of a very hard material. Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine (Aeneid book VI). Later, by the Middle Ages, the term came to refer to diamond, as it was the hardest material then known, and remains the hardest non-synthetic material known."