Artifact Material - Hoarfrost Steel
Aug 16, 2018 16:02:36 GMT -6
Post by Lestat on Aug 16, 2018 16:02:36 GMT -6
Hoarfrost Steel
Hoarfrost Steel is an icy cold nearly impossible to melt natural material who's secrets to forging have been lost to time. In the ancient past the Syrneth used forges as hot as a star in order to work the metal into shape. Clumps of Hoarfrost Steel are often found on the poles of a given planet, but they are just as hard to break apart as they are to melt. Some species excavate entire veins of Haorfrost Steel, and design their Spelljammers around them in order to use the raw unworked material as a makeshift cooling system.
Weapons and armor made of Hoarfrost Steel are extremely cold, often employing self heating grips, or inserts in order to be operable. Cases and sheaths that hold them can freeze shut if not properly heated. They don't tend to land a bigger punch than other artifact materials, but they can freeze their targets solid, and prevent them from escaping.
- Melee Weapon: This weapon gains the Anchored property as well as the Sapping property as long as it is not a Brawling weapon.
- Ranged Weapon: This weapon loses the Overheats property if it had it.
- Special Ammunition: This weapon deals E damage and gains the Snare property.
- Armor: This armor glistens with sheets of naturally forming ice. Reduce the number of wounds taken from E damage by 1 on protected areas, and automatically douse yourself if caught on fire.
- Bionic Arm: You gain an extra raise to initiating, maintaining, and taking control of a grapple with your bionic arm as well as tests to hold on to an object or fixture with it. Enemies suffer an additional check to slipping free, or breaking free of your bionic arm's grapple.
- Bionic Locomotion: You leave trails of frost wherever you walk, causing the ground to frost over and allowing you to walk on water. This ice lasts for one round and counts as difficult terrain. You move your normal speed on slippery difficult terrain, and suffer none of its negative effects.
- Bionic Heart: You have traded your heart for an icy core that leaves you and those who get close to you chilled to the bone. You don't suffer any negative effects from environmental cold or heat. While engaged in melee all adjacent creatures are unable to take the Shift or Withdraw actions, and they suffer a check to dodge tests.
Promethean Material Asset
Hoarfrost Steel
Hoarfrost Steel is a naturally occurring deep blue metal that disperses heat. The superior cooling of a Hoarfrost Steel chassis allows for a Promethean to store four times their Generation in Pyros rather than three times.