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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 2144911" data-attributes="member: 103">Considering Brilliant Energy costs a virtual +4 to the enhancement of the weapon, it would be rather silly for benefit to wind up being a hindrance (in terms of no longer being able to overcome damage reduction).It seems you would need to pick one of two alternatives:  the brilliant energy enhances the blade in question such that you get all the benefits of the brilliant energy property while retaining any previous properties of the blade.  Incidentally this would, strictly speaking, be the proper interpretation according the RAW.  Because the above is not mutually exclusive and the RAW don't specifically write something to the contrary, there is no reason that a cold iron brilliant energy weapon would not function as cold iron.  These logical contradictions everyone speaks of are rather ridiculous - we are talking about magic.  Whose to say that upon making the blade light it doesn't somehow incorporate the mystical powers of cold iron that allow one to bypass the DR of a fiend?  The camp against this interpretation is open-minded enough to accept magic but then close-minded to the idea that this application of magic must obey physics...  Come on.The alternative is to treat the brilliiant energy property as transforming the blade and not just enhancing it such that now the blade is light INSTEAD of whatever it was before.  If you do this you have to follow this interpretation through to its conclusion, however.  If you are treating the blade as made out of light, it would technically count as energy in the same way that searing light, the lantern archon's ray attack, sunbeam, etc. would count as energy - meaning DR was irrelevant.  As light it would count as an non-descriptor type of energy so that no energy resistance would apply.  This interpretation makes a brilliant energy weapon perhaps more powerful than it was before - or for a +4 virtual enhancement is perhaps exactly as powerful as it should be considering the rarity of armor and shields on high CR monsters.  YMMV</blockquote>

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