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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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Not sure if cold iron has anything to do metaphysically with cold, so much as untouched iron.

Might be apt to call it primordial iron, left unforged and unchanged since creation. Or how do you fluff it @DragonParadox ?

Anyhow, 1000 lb would allow us to equip 250 witchers with longswords or whips, weighting in at 2 lbs. Spearheads shouldnt weight much more either.

Edit: I am a little hyped at the thought of founding a monster hunting order, wielding 2 lb weapons with the Targaryen dragon and Arcane Marked.
 
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tarrangar said:
It's named COLD iron, I don't think it will be that effective against the forces of Winter, the Walkers are beings of frost, snow and ice, you need heat not cold against them, I don't think something that's specifically called cold will work well against them.
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No. Its a naming convention. It has nothing to do with the element. It's main use is as weapons and armor against, Demons, Fey and magic in general.
 
Fehu said:
Not sure if cold iron has anything to do metaphysically with cold, so much as untouched iron.

Might be apt to call it primordial iron, left unforged and unchanged since creation. Or how do you fluff it @DragonParadox ?

Anyhow, 1000 lb would allow us to equip 250 witchers with longswords or whips, weighting in at 2 lbs. Spearheads shouldnt weight much more either.
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Bare minimum for a late medieval longsword that narrows to a fine tip is 2.5 lbs. Ideally you want 3 to 4.5 to ensure its structural integrity, so 200
 
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From what i remember, DP said Cold Iron gets is properties by virtue of being exceptionally mundane, never having felt the touch of outside forces since its creation.
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Arimai said:
If you want them to snap at the first swing go right ahead.
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The underlying reality has shifted so that certian "Archtypes" of items, or Arch-Charactistics of items - say a longsword with a silly (Non-Metric!) weight, can exist as a strong weapon due to certian things reinforcing it's conceptual reality, so that it can exist as "good-longsword-resilient" despite it's logical (mundane) weaknesses.

At least that's how I see D&D rules when they conflict with reality.
Unless it's not our favor, then I'm all for mundane reality - reaching for the best of both like a munchkin ;)
 
[X] Arcane Additions: 200.000 lb of Common Iron and 1000 lb. of Cold Iron.

That's enough primordial iron for:

200-250~ Longswords, whips, or perhaps spearheads.

That's enough to found an order dedicated to demonslaying.
 
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so cold iron swords instead of silver swords for the witchers? or will the poor things have to carry 3 swords?
 
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Fehu said:
[X] Arcane Additions: 200.000 lb of Common Iron and 1000 lb. of Cold Iron.

That's enough primordial iron for:

200-250~ Longswords, whips, or perhaps spearheads.

That's enough to found an order dedicated to demonslaying.
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500 western spears. Or 800 Qiang, which are Chinese spears, the word means spear but is generally associated with the smaller headed type preferred by many martial styles. Or 400 naginata.
 
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Silver for Monsters, Steel for Humans, Iron for Reflections, Gold for Viserys.
Adhoc vote count started by Crake on Jan 31, 2018 at 4:40 AM, finished with 49 posts and 4 votes.
  • [X] Only the Basics: 300.000 lb of Common Iron
    [X] Arcane Additions: 200.000 lb of Common Iron and 1000 lb. of Cold Iron.
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DragonParadox said:
Hm... point. There is already a lot of complexity going on in this game. Default weights and measures stand unless it's something truly egregious.
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I'll just assume magic took care of the structural problems skimping on materials would cause. Although if you really want to equip the most people with Cold Iron then Qiang style with weirwood hafts is the way to go. Weirwood blessed by the Old Gods would be resistant to the magic of the Others.
 
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@Duesal when we fabricate a weapon for Jon out of Blue Ice, let's add a sapphire pommel with an etched Targaryen three-headed dragon in... purple or Stark-gray.

Jon of house Snowfyre :p
 
Azel said:
The 200,000 lb would barely be enough to equip the Legion and probably not even that if we het a few more recruits.
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Depends on the weapons and armor styles we employ. I'd recommend enchanted, segmentata for easy of production, maintenance and speed.

Fehu said:
Duesal when we fabricate a weapon for Jon out of Blue Ice, let's add a sapphire pommel with an etched Targaryen three-headed dragon in... purple or Stark-gray.

Jon of house Snowfyre :p
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I second this motion.
 
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Azel said:
The 200,000 lb would barely be enough to equip the Legion and probably not even that if we het a few more recruits.
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Still though, 1000 lb is nothing to scoff at. Infact we could equip the legion officers with them too, and if it turns out Tyrosh is full of demonworshipping scum that will come in handy.
 
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