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<blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 1143381" data-attributes="member: 1457">First, to answer the original question: no, you can't add &quot;cold iron&quot; or &quot;silver&quot; to your quarterstaff. SRD:&quot;Items without metal parts cannot be made from cold iron. An arrow could be made of cold iron, but a quarterstaff could not.&quot;&quot;The alchemical silvering process can’t be applied to nonmetal items, and it doesn’t work on rare metals such as adamantine, cold iron, and mithral.&quot;That's pretty clear.I bet you could get your DM to houserule this. Maybe your monk is really strong, and uses a cold iron staff. You could use alchemical silver on one end of an iron staff. But &quot;cold iron staff&quot; isn't in the rules, and neither is a wood staff with &quot;silver&quot; and &quot;cold iron&quot;. If you're playing strict by-the-book D&amp;D you're better off with two kamas (you can flurry with kamas, so your attack penalties would be the same as if you used both ends of the quarterstaff). Bonus: you can sheathe kamas, enabling you to climb ropes and do other things with your hands.Speaking of monks, I have to correct this rules gaff:No, Quarterstaff is not part of monk unarmed combat. A Quarterstaff does not = Unarmed Strike. They're seperate weapons. A monk can mix a staff (or monk weapons) and Unarmed Strike when doing a flurry. That's not the same thing as staff = unarmed strike.Put simply: Ki strike doesn't apply to manufactured weapons. Here's the SRD text:&quot;Ki Strike (Su): At 4th level, a monk’s unarmed attacks are empowered with ki. Her unarmed attacks are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of dealing damage to creatures with damage reduction. Ki strike improves with the character’s monk level. At 10th level, her unarmed attacks are also treated as lawful weapons for the purpose of dealing damage to creatures with damage reduction. At 16th level, her unarmed attacks are treated as adamantine weapons for the purpose of dealing damage to creatures with damage reduction and bypassing hardness.&quot;(emphasis added by me)Nowhere in there does it say that manufactured weapons can be used, or that &quot;a monk's unarmed attacks&quot; = attacks with monk weapons as well.-z</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zaruthustran, post: 1143381, member: 1457"] First, to answer the original question: no, you can't add "cold iron" or "silver" to your quarterstaff. SRD: "Items without metal parts cannot be made from cold iron. An arrow could be made of cold iron, but a quarterstaff could not." "The alchemical silvering process can’t be applied to nonmetal items, and it doesn’t work on rare metals such as adamantine, cold iron, and mithral." That's pretty clear. I bet you could get your DM to houserule this. Maybe your monk is really strong, and uses a cold iron staff. You could use alchemical silver on one end of an iron staff. But "cold iron staff" isn't in the rules, and neither is a wood staff with "silver" and "cold iron". If you're playing strict by-the-book D&D you're better off with two kamas (you can flurry with kamas, so your attack penalties would be the same as if you used both ends of the quarterstaff). Bonus: you can sheathe kamas, enabling you to climb ropes and do other things with your hands. Speaking of monks, I have to correct this rules gaff: No, Quarterstaff is not part of monk unarmed combat. A Quarterstaff does not = Unarmed Strike. They're seperate weapons. A monk can mix a staff (or monk weapons) and Unarmed Strike when doing a flurry. That's not the same thing as staff = unarmed strike. Put simply: Ki strike doesn't apply to manufactured weapons. Here's the SRD text: "Ki Strike (Su): At 4th level, a monk’s [b]unarmed attacks[/b] are empowered with ki. Her [b]unarmed attacks[/b] are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of dealing damage to creatures with damage reduction. Ki strike improves with the character’s monk level. At 10th level, her [b]unarmed attacks[/b] are also treated as lawful weapons for the purpose of dealing damage to creatures with damage reduction. At 16th level, her [b]unarmed attacks[/b] are treated as adamantine weapons for the purpose of dealing damage to creatures with damage reduction and bypassing hardness." (emphasis added by me) Nowhere in there does it say that manufactured weapons can be used, or that "a monk's unarmed attacks" = attacks with monk weapons as well. -z [/QUOTE]

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