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Re: Metal/alloy durability for making weapons?

--- In rpg-create@yahoogroups.com, "klaus_ae_mogensen" <klaus.ae.mogensen@...>
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> Pure gold and silver are very soft (Mohs value 2.5-3), not suitable for
weapons. Silver daggers in history were mainly decorative. The Precolumbian
Mesoamericans had lots of gold, but for weapons they used obsidian. Silver and
especially gold are also very heavy - it would be difficult to wield a gold
sword.
>
> - Klaus
>

good god.. a solid gold broadsword would probobly weight about 150lbs. Some
nimble thief would just shank you and sell it. Heh.. I can just imagine a
pimped-out Afro-Samurai with a huge gold sword shit-talking the bad guys.

Fri Jul 3, 2009 12:42 pm

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Hi In Sagatafl, all weapons have a Durability value, derived from the weapon's size (Medium size, equivalent to shortsword, is optimal) and type (sword-like,...	Peter Knutsen peter_knutsen	Jul 2, 2009 11:26 pm
... Bronze is less brittle than iron or pattern-welded steel (which I guess is what you mean with primitive steel), but it holds an edge less well and it bends...	Torben AEgidius Mogen... torbenm1	Jul 3, 2009 7:16 am
... Bronze is not as durable as iron. Bronze swords were almost always short thrusting swords, bronze is incapable of supporting the weight of a longsword and...	Tim swordrat	Jul 4, 2009 11:09 pm
... Yes, I'm not at all convinced that Moh'd Hardness Scale is particularly useful in this context. Perhaps there should be a special rule for materials...	Peter Knutsen peter_knutsen	Jul 8, 2009 10:21 am
... Meteoric iron is actually a natural alloy of iron and nickel. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_meteorite. The common meteoric iron-nickle alloy...	klaus_ae_mogensen klaus_ae_mog...	Jul 3, 2009 9:07 am
... good god.. a solid gold broadsword would probobly weight about 150lbs. Some nimble thief would just shank you and sell it. Heh.. I can just imagine a...	woozlegamer	Jul 3, 2009 12:42 pm
... Hardly. Gold is "only" about 2.5 times heavier than iron, and an iron broadsword is about 3lbs. A broadsword of gold would be very soft, though, so you...	Torben AEgidius Mogen... torbenm1	Jul 6, 2009 7:00 am
... The really important question is, how impure can a silver sword be, before it stops being doing full damage to were-creatures? -- Peter Knutsen ...	Peter Knutsen peter_knutsen	Jul 6, 2009 7:15 am
I accidentally sent this as a private email, instead of to the list. ... A typical rule in many RPGs would be that weres take half damage from weapons that...	Peter Knutsen peter_knutsen	Jul 8, 2009 10:26 am

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