Special Materials - Wood

Darkwood: basically, super mahogany.
This wood is taken from a darkwood tree, so named because it

seems to absorb light and the space in its canopy appears to be in magical darkness, an ecosystem that
often attracts creatures with blindsight or tremorsense. Extremely difficult to cut down, a darkwood tree
can dull an axe before it has even bitten through the outer, dead bark layer. Dryads, however, may take a
small sample of darkwood without harming the tree and gift it to one who has given them service.
Darkwood is prized for use in staves, armor plating, and certain specific weapons. An axehead of
darkwood may be enchanted and used by sylphs or other fey in their weapons. An axe so made will
shear dead branches from a tree in a single blow without harming the tree, and has advantage on
attacks against plant creature types. Armor plates of darkwood are light enough to be sewn into clothing,
but protect as well as studded leather, providing a concealable light armor. Staves made from darkwood
may expend a charge to cast darkness, regardless of their other properties.
Tinder Soul - it’s a wood I used that a friend suggested. It’s part of a living tree who wanders from forest
to forest, no one every really knowing where it is or going to be. It leaves saplings behind, that grow an
expedient rate. You must burn the tree, to reveal a heart of wood. But you have to be careful. The
moment the flames turn from normal to white you have to reach into the fire and pull out the heart.
Soar Wood - Wood that grows in the cloud forests (accessible only by flying), and which is as light weight
as balsa wood. It floats a few inches off the ground, and so -- for example -- is really useful for airship
construction, or for a chest that will always be light weight no matter what goes into it. I think this was
originally content from the Eberron setting in 3.5.
Chillbark - This can occur anywhere, but we let our PCs harvest it from time to time to create basically a
container that's always cold. Could also go into a weapon that deals Cold damage. Usually they just make
a cold keg to haul their ale and stuff it into the Bag of Holding.
Holy Oak - We had a very niche moment where this was useful - it was the wood harvested from a
sacred tree that had a Dryad in it. They had to kill the dryad to harvest the timber, but it kind of
functioned as Protection from Detection. IE, you could get an unholy weapon to pass for neutral to a
Paladin's divine sense. They also could have made a Holy Quarterstaff, if they had found a way to harvest
the tree without harming the Dryad or committing an evil act.
Time Timber - OK, I just chose that name for the alliteration. But seriously, we had an RP brewer who
was really into his craft. The challenge being, it takes 20+ years to craft a good aged whiskey. So we sent
them to the Feywild, where it's timey-wimey, and they were able to get timber that preserved some of
that magic, allowing the contents to age a full year in 1 day. It significantly sped-up booze production
without sacrificing quality. Also, endless hi-jinks when they tried to store other stuff in it and found that
their food turned into miasma and rot in a 2 hour window. The necromancer wanted to go back and get
more for coffins, to help make his skeleton army.
Gulthias Wood - this is actually from Tales from the Yawning Portal / The Sunless Citadel / The Curse of
Strahd. When you kill a vampire with a green wood stake, something can happen where you get a kind of
undead tree. The Gulthias Tree has its own set of 5E rules and regs, but it's really cool lore and worth
using for a more classic 3E vibe.
Coppervine - can be weaved into long strands and wound around a spool for transportation. Good
electrical conductor.
Silverbark - Soft enough to work like silver, but can be cured to an iron-like hardness. Good for armor and
weapons, but needs regular maintenance or will crumble into silver dust.
Goldenoak - Typically coppiced and then sawed into coins and trade bars. Burning goldenoak currency
results in an equivalent value of smelted gold.
Wyroot - The root of the wyrwood tree has a peculiar quality. When a weapon constructed of wyroot
scores a critical hit, it absorbs some of the life force of the creature hit. This life force draining does not
deal extra harm to the target and the wyroot weapon gains 1 life point. As a bonus action, a wielder with
a ki pool or sorcery points can absorb 1 life point from the wyrwood weapon and convert it into either 1
ki point or 1 sorcery point. A wyroot weapon can gain at most 1 life point per day and hold up to 1 life
point at a time. More powerful wyroot weapons can gain up to 3 life points per day and hold up to 3 life
points at a time. Any unspent life points dissipate at dusk. A creature can convert life points from only
one wyroot weapon per day.
Silver Wood - The trees of the silver wood have nearly limitless potential. When used to create magical
items the wood has been shown to enhance the enchantment placed on it. So a fire sword enchantment
that usually adds 1d6 may add 1d8 when placed on a sword imbued with silver wood.
And the leaves of the trees are used by their Kenku guardians to create some of the best camouflage the
world has ever seen (or not seen). When woven together by an expert craftsmen the leaves create a
Cloak of Kenkukind, which can render the wearer completely invisible at a distance of 30ft.

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This wood is taken from a darkwood tree, so named because it

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