Michael Cortez wrote: >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. > > That wasn't in Chronicles--so it was probably in one of the "third-tier" Dragonlance books, which don't even get Dragonlance right.
Steel *is* done in a lot of different ways, and there are a lot of different alloys of steel. Folding two kinds of steel together is, for example, something done in Japan to make the best weapons with the materials they had. >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... > > If you take iron ore and coal, you've got the basic elements of steel. (Steel is an iron/carbon mix, with differing degrees of iron and carbon and, occasionally, a different material thrown in when special qualities are required. But if you've just got iron ore and charcoal, you can make steel if you know what you're doing.) DM _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
