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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4997058" data-attributes="member: 4937">I agree on both counts.&nbsp; Another classic example of the tension between good fluff and balanced game mechanics. I should say that:a) I'm of the opinion that regular fire forged and hammer tempered steel is 'cold forged iron'.&nbsp; 'Cold' refers to the tempering and quenching process (as opposed to raw 'pig iron') and 'forged' refers to the heating.&nbsp; Misreading this term has led to alot of confusion.&nbsp; Iron in general and steel in particular was effacious against fairies because as a product of technology it was effacious against magical things.b) There are really only 4 special weapon making metals in my game: galvorn or 'true tin', adamantium or 'true iron', mithril or 'true silver', and orichalcum or 'true gold'. Each 'true' form counts as the lesser metal as well, so mithril bites things only effected by silver and adamantium bites things effected by 'cold iron'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4997058, member: 4937"] I agree on both counts. Another classic example of the tension between good fluff and balanced game mechanics. I should say that: a) I'm of the opinion that regular fire forged and hammer tempered steel is 'cold forged iron'. 'Cold' refers to the tempering and quenching process (as opposed to raw 'pig iron') and 'forged' refers to the heating. Misreading this term has led to alot of confusion. Iron in general and steel in particular was effacious against fairies because as a product of technology it was effacious against magical things. b) There are really only 4 special weapon making metals in my game: galvorn or 'true tin', adamantium or 'true iron', mithril or 'true silver', and orichalcum or 'true gold'. Each 'true' form counts as the lesser metal as well, so mithril bites things only effected by silver and adamantium bites things effected by 'cold iron'. [/QUOTE]

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