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<blockquote data-quote="PapersAndPaychecks" data-source="post: 2217078" data-attributes="member: 28854">Metallurgy in D&amp;D is borked, be very careful of it.&nbsp; There was a thread about bronze weapons which contains useful input on this, but I couldn't find it with a cursory look through.The idea of cold-wrought iron is just nonsense and putting it in your game is opening yourself up to a world of hurt if you have a player who asks awkward questions...&nbsp; Explaining how the iron got out of the rock without being smelted is an exercise in creativity that I just don't need, and meteorites don't help at all, unless you decide that your game world has lumps of metal falling from the sky without getting heated up in the process.&nbsp;If it's iron, it's been hot at some point.&nbsp; &quot;Cold iron&quot; just means that it's cold now.&nbsp; If you want to make cold-wrought iron special and different without making a really horrible mess of the metallurgy, it's best to decide that you're talking about cold iron but not cold steel.&nbsp; (The cold iron's presumably been magically treated by some wizard to stop it sundering every time it gets hit by a properly-forged weapon).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PapersAndPaychecks, post: 2217078, member: 28854"] Metallurgy in D&D is borked, be very careful of it. There was a thread about bronze weapons which contains useful input on this, but I couldn't find it with a cursory look through. The idea of cold-wrought iron is just nonsense and putting it in your game is opening yourself up to a world of hurt if you have a player who asks awkward questions... Explaining how the iron got out of the rock without being smelted is an exercise in creativity that I just don't need, and meteorites don't help at all, unless you decide that your game world has lumps of metal falling from the sky without getting heated up in the process. If it's iron, it's been hot at some point. "Cold iron" just means that it's cold [i]now[/i]. If you want to make cold-wrought iron special and different without making a really horrible mess of the metallurgy, it's best to decide that you're talking about cold iron but not cold steel. (The cold iron's presumably been magically treated by some wizard to stop it sundering every time it gets hit by a properly-forged weapon). [/QUOTE]

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