>> > Several things I've come across lead me to think iron, however. >> >> Such as? >> >> Nothing off the top of my head leans towards an assumption >> of non-steel >> iron compounds as the base metal for the weapons.
I remember, in one DragonLance novel where Flint Fireforge is showing Tanis how to forge a sword, he mentions how he adds something extra and folds it into the sword to make steel rather then just a regular sword that would require constant sharpening. It was implied that he was not doing anything "magical", so the difference was that we was either making "Steel" or was combining steel with something else to make an alloy. But based on the description of just collecting Coal and Iron Ore --- I have the impression that "regular/plain" weapons are just Iron, and that "quality" dwarven or elven weapons were steel... But then again, it has been a couple of years since I read those books, so I could be remembering "wrong" -- and DragonLance isn't exactly the "default" setting for D&D/d20 either. -- Mike _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
