Re: (TFT) Spellcasting, Fatigue, Wounds and Arrows

["Charles Gadda" <cgadda@earthlink.net>]

ehhh....

I'd largely sidestep the whole issue by ruling that only moderately large
amounts of iron (say, .5 kg and up) will impact spell casting.

I think the original intent of the rules was to discourage (though not
eliminate) wizards running around in full plate and toting zweihanders.

I think using a handful (or several) of iron metal filings is a bit
perverse, and was probably not the original intent of the rules (though one
can certainly game it that way, if desired - I wouldn't but it seems to work
out well for some)

And talk about adding insult to injury! Bad enough to take an arrow (hell,
bad enough to get smacked in the face with a mere padded Dagorhir style
boffer axe... but that is another tale) but to have spell casting impacted
as well? Sounds a bit too punitive (though then again the Reverse Missiles
spell is a bit perverse in its own right, so maybe this is only fair.)

----- Original Message -----
From: <pvk@oz.net>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: (TFT) Spellcasting, Fatigue, Wounds and Arrows


> > In a message dated 11/24/2003 8:14:51 PM Central Standard Time,
pvk@oz.net
> > writes:
> ...
> >> And if wizards can sense metal innately, they get to be metal
> >> detectors...
> >
> > Only for iron. (Technically, IMC, only for ferromagnetic materials. ...
>
> Same deal for magnetic technological metal detectors.
>
>
> >> If the penalty is -1 per 10 grams, surely some folks would make special
> >> arrows and bolts with higher iron content for this purpose.
> >
> > No, because they'd still want to *hit* with those arrows and bolts. That
> > 10 grams is for a 100% steel arrowhead. Making the arrowhead much
heavier
> > would result in severe Dx penalties and reduced range. One could make
the
> > shaft of the arrow from iron or steel, but that would be difficult and I
> > doubt that the result would be satisfactory. Most likely you'd get an
> > expensive arrow that flew like a pig thrown sideways.
>
> I tend to think that increasing the iron content by 2-4 times could be
> pretty easily compensated for by a talented fletcher. I expect that the
> arrowhead on a wood-shafted arrow is probably rather less than 25% of
> the arrow's total mass, so a spine of iron would do the trick without
> unbalancing the arrow at all, and probably some simpler techniques
> would work too. Also, IIRC, some Earth crossbow bolts were mostly or
> all made of metal. Not to be annoying about it, but that's what I'd
> expect. Of course, there would probably also be untalented fletchers
> and archers deciding to try modified arrows and bolts which _would_
> fly like a pig thrown sideways, which would be amusing, too. ;-)
>
> PvK
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