Special Materials
Pathfinder introduced rules that weapons with a straight enhancement bonus can be treated as special materials for the purposes of damage reduction (Corebook pg 562). Keeping with this new rule, a +3 enhancement bonus counts as Reidran crysteel and targath, while a +4 enhancement bonus counts as byeshk for overcoming damage reduction. Two materials presented in Eberron material is redundant with existing Pathfinder material. Bloodglass (SoX, pg. 147) is redundant with the actual obsidian material. Cyrite (PGoE, pg. 117) is redundant with other special materials and the Resistance spell.
Likewise, Pathfinder has a handful of spells (i.e. Pellet Blast) and class options (i.e. the Rare Earth Infusion for the Kineticist class) that have special options concerning rare materials (i.e. counting as or substituting for rare materials for bypassing damage reduction). If cold iron and silver are both options for such an spell, power or ability, then Reidran crysteel and targath are added as options as well (following the same substitution rules, like additional material cost, level requirements, etc). If adamantine is an option, then so is byeshk, again following the same rules. Otherwise, new materials are detailed below.
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