​Adventuring Aids: Materials

Inanimate objects are as tough as the material they’re made from. Materials have a specific Skin Temper, and they have Ignore Damage according to their thickness. The Material Strength table gives each material’s ST, base Ignore Damage, base DP, as well as density (in grams per cubic centimeter) and melting point (in Celsius degrees).

The thicker the material is, the higher the Ignore Damage. Look up the thickness (in centimeters) on the Sphere Chart, and multiply the base Ignore Damage by this. Alloying can increase the Skin Temper and/or the Ignore Damage of a material.

Inanimate materials don’t have a specific, total DP count. The amount of damage done to the material determines how deep the attack penetrates. Look up the damage done (after Skin Temper and Ignore Damage) on the Result part of the Action Charts, and read over to the Square Chart, for the number of centimeters deep the attack penetrates.

Example: Seraph does 15 points damage to a wooden door. Wood has a Skin Temper of 1 and a base Ignore Damage of 2. The door is 5 centimeters thick, so its Ignore Damage is 10. He does 5 points of damage to it, busting it completely open. If the Hole rule is used, the hole is about 5 hands wide.