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WTF is "cold iron", and why's it so special?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7915542" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>The term "cold iron" is far, far older than D&D. The term appears in Francis Grose's <em>1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue</em>. It appears in Kipling's poem "Cold Iron", which is in his 1910 collection <em>Rewards and Fairies. </em> So, it isn't like "cold iron" is a change for the game, specifically. There's nothing in their texts that indicate Grose or Kipling meant anything other than poetry by it, though.</p><p></p><p>There is another line of discussion (I don't reacall if it was mentioned upthread) in which "cold iron" refers to the iron used by Romans to crucify people - the spikes so used for death being imbued with import...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7915542, member: 177"] The term "cold iron" is far, far older than D&D. The term appears in Francis Grose's [I]1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue[/I]. It appears in Kipling's poem "Cold Iron", which is in his 1910 collection [I]Rewards and Fairies. [/I] So, it isn't like "cold iron" is a change for the game, specifically. There's nothing in their texts that indicate Grose or Kipling meant anything other than poetry by it, though. There is another line of discussion (I don't reacall if it was mentioned upthread) in which "cold iron" refers to the iron used by Romans to crucify people - the spikes so used for death being imbued with import... [/QUOTE]
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