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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Fae might not be able use iron armor. Why can't they use bronze? Or some material found only in Otherworld?
Besides aren't their plenty of tales about fae knights?
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They do in Quest FRP. Often an especially tough kind of bronze, made via some phosphor-treatment process.
Human casters of arcane spells use bronze armour and bronze weapons too, since it's only ferrous materials that interfere with arcane magic (and cause direct harm to Faeries). Divine spells are unaffected.
My guess is that back when Quest FRP was made (by a Mike Greenholdt, back in the 80s), the iron rule was there to enforce the robed-wizard trope, but then some clever players (possibly roleplaying some clever characters) found a workaround, in the form of first normal bronze armour and weapons, inferior to good medieval steel in durability and much costlier to make, and then eventually the phosphor-bronze thing, to match the tier-one advanced steel (MS) that some craftsmen characters could already make.