At 09:20 AM 2/25/04 -0600, Neil Gilmore wrote:
... The idea of being able to kill someone in plate armor with a single handed sword is ludicrous.
How so?
... But back to the quality of weapons debate. It is my opinion that in worlds where magic is indistrialized, or even partly so, the quality of weapons is quite high. Imagine begin able to finely control the temperature of a forge, either directly through fire spells, or indirectly through a fire elemental. Imagine specialized magic to alloy metals (remember, my campaign has quite a bit of aluminum around, mostly due to indirect use of magic). This makes good weapons possible.
Perhaps possible (which spells are these?), but is that industry what ITL describes? I don't see any magical spell requirements for the smith jobs.
Now, I fully realize how fantastic the abilities of a medieval swordsmith were to be able to make asword from nothing but what they could pick up off of, or dig out of the ground. But I'd take modern steel over it any day.
What would you say about Charles' comment about the modern steel sword that snapped on the third tap in the video?
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