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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1783319" data-attributes="member: 16936">Ooh, this one looks messy.For one thing, if a Brilliant Energy weapon is energy, why doesn't it do energy damage?  Or does it do energy damage, even though the description doesn't explicitly say that it does?  And if it DOES do energy damage, what kind of energy damage is it?(I do like the mental image of a high-level fighter struggling vainly to figure out a way that he can sheath a brilliant energy sword, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )But as far as the original post goes: as a practical matter, I'm almost positive that because your GM has already said no, nothing you say will change that decision.If you want to make one last argument, though, you might try asking what cost adjustment could be put on a weapon to make it act as though it were cold iron even when it's not actually made out of metal at all.  (It'd likely be less than the metalline enchantment, and would be useful for characters who favored the quarterstaff, for example, so you could suggest that druids and the like might have found good reason to develop such a thing.)That way you're both paying more for cold iron than you normally would, as well as giving a rationale for why this brilliant energy weapon can bypass DR as if it were cold iron (it's MAGICAL!).--it's a long shot, thoughryan</blockquote>

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