(TFT) Re: Sword/weapon "individuality"

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 17:46 -0500 2/24/09, Jay wrote:
> If I discover Iron Working before you then my cities can build Legions first.
> Conan the movie beginning when JEJ's troops hit the village.
> The six fingered mans custom blade from the worlds greatest swords smith.
> Stormbringer.
> Excalaber.
> Glamdring.
>
> Swords all, but how similar?
>
> At what point do we start to express the differences in game terms?

Fred Saberhagen wrote a series based on magical swords. Not great 
fantasy, but very interesting from a magic-item description point of 
view. Some of those swords, invaluable as they were, you would not 
want to gain possession of.

http://www.fredsaberhagen.com/FredsSwords.html


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