D&D 3E/3.5 [3.5] Weapon bonuses and special abilities

[Greenfield]

You can make a quarterstaff out of boxwood (soft, fragile stuff) and have it shod with anything you like, it will never be masterworked. It's too weak at the core.

To make a quarterstaff with different woods at each end would be difficult to imagine, and an incredible amount of work to create. No continuous grain through the center section? That's not a quarterstaff, it's two clubs and a blob of play-dough to hold them together. (Consider the very small surface as the two ends meet, and the leverage the two lengths of wood apply to that strain point. What glue, magical or otherwise, will hold under those circumstances?)

And how would you have only one end well balanced. Balanced against what? The balance point is in the center. If it isn't, it's not well balanced.

Now by grafting different woods together as the tree grows you could come up with a branch that's ironwood on one end and boxwood on the other, but to do that would take years of work, considerable expertise and patience, all to intentionally create an inferior quarterstaff? At that point you couldn't "masterwork" the whole thing because one end would be crap.

Over all, though, there's no way to make just one end master worked. For either end to work well, you need balance and grip, and that takes place at the middle.

 

[Sekhmet]

I'm not referring to multiple types of wood, I'm more referring to multiple kinds of metal or wood shodding to bypass Cold Iron or Adamantine or whathaveyou DR.
It isn't too hard to shod a staff, whether or not it's a well made stick. If the entire staff is of masterwork quality, and you put a cast iron tip on it, suddenly the weight is off - it's not really masterwork quality anymore. To do it well, you need masterwork materials on top of a masterwork staff.

Putting a silver cap on one end and a cold iron cap on the other doesn't take much effort.


[sblock=How to conjoin two different kinds of woods.]Use a mortise and tenon joint with resin and a leather cord wrap, it will be more than strong enough to use as a quarterstaff.[/sblock]

 

[James the Newbie]

"Adding the masterwork quality to a double weapon costs twice the normal
increase (+600 gp)."

Players hand book page 122.

 

[Sekhmet]

"Adding the masterwork quality to a double weapon costs twice the normal
increase (+600 gp)."

Players hand book page 122.

Oh. Hey. Thanks.

 

[Greenfield]

Thanks for settling that. I was clearly wrong, but I learned something useful.

 

[Empirate]

You mean you learned something retarded. That's almost as bad as buying ladders, breaking them up into poles, and selling those for a tidy profit. PHB, proofreading ought to have been thy name, alas, it was not to be.