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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5522567" data-attributes="member: 78958">Being epic or not is not a property of a weapon. There is no &quot;Epic&quot; enchantment, like there is a Holy enchantment; nor can your weapon be made of &quot;Epic&quot;, as it can be made of Adamantine. &quot;Epic&quot; is merely the name you tack onto any weapon that is a certain amount of 'powerful'.DR 20/epic basically means the following: &quot;If you're not wielding a weapon that is powerful enough that it can only have been crafted by an epic level spellcaster, you subtract 20 from the damage you deal&quot;. Or, more succinctly put: &quot;You must be this tall to enter&quot;.So while a Transmuting weapon can take on all the properties needed to overcome any DR, it does not become more powerful. If a monster has DR &quot;X/Epic and Good&quot;, a transmuting weapon can fake being good-aligned to overcome this, but if it doesn't have a +6 enhancement bonus or a total of +6 worth of enchantments, it will not overcome this DR.To keep within the metaphor: Transmuting weapons can fake being bearded or not, elven or gnomish, female or male in order to get on the roller coaster. They cannot fake being taller than they are, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 5522567, member: 78958"] Being epic or not is not a property of a weapon. There is no "Epic" enchantment, like there is a Holy enchantment; nor can your weapon be made of "Epic", as it can be made of Adamantine. "Epic" is merely the name you tack onto any weapon that is a certain amount of 'powerful'. DR 20/epic basically means the following: "If you're not wielding a weapon that is powerful enough that it can only have been crafted by an epic level spellcaster, you subtract 20 from the damage you deal". Or, more succinctly put: "You must be this tall to enter". So while a Transmuting weapon can take on all the properties needed to overcome any DR, it does not become more powerful. If a monster has DR "X/Epic and Good", a transmuting weapon can fake being good-aligned to overcome this, but if it doesn't have a +6 enhancement bonus or a total of +6 worth of enchantments, it will not overcome this DR. To keep within the metaphor: Transmuting weapons can fake being bearded or not, elven or gnomish, female or male in order to get on the roller coaster. They cannot fake being taller than they are, though. [/QUOTE]

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