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Originally Posted by tanksoldier
Ok, I wasn't sure how SJ handled properties that they don't have right to.
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It's not an SJ games thing, it's just not how copyright works.
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Originally Posted by tanksoldier
As for the earlier thread, much more is known about Valerian steel weapons now than in 2009.
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I'm not sure how true that is, though
this is also a thread worth checking.
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Originally Posted by tanksoldier
Their price and rarity I think would make them more than just "very fine". Only about 200 are known in Westeros and most noble families don't even have one. Very few have two or more.
In various places in books and series they are described as lighter than other weapons of that type, that sharpening one would result in needing a new whetstone and perhaps a new hand, cleaving thru steel armor like a knife thru bread, notching quality steel weapons during a fight to the point of uselessness, that even impoverished hours would sell a daughter before selling a Valyrian weapon... They're worth fortunes.
A mere very fine weapon isn't that valuable.
They are also once of only two known ways of killing a white walker.... Probably are " of killing" vs the other but that's rare enough to just be a plot point.
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Valyrian steel doesn't really meaningfully have a price. Could you theoretically purchase one? Sure, but that would either take a ton of money and a seller in a bad situation or it would actually be a political gift with a token large payment to acknowledge the unpayable debt. So ignore price. Charge cash as per usual for very fine or superfine or whatever and also a 1-10 CP Unusual Background for the privilege of buying it.
... Except when that's not true at all. There's precedent for random ass unnamed valyrian daggers showing up that aren't such treasured possessions that they can be thrown away on an assassination mission and won't jeopardize it as soon as some one checks the list of all known extant valyrian weapons. If that's the level of valyrian weapons lying around, and there are some good reasons to keep it from being so rare that its hard to make it appear in most enemy hands, then it should merely be very expensive.
As for stats, you could go with superfine's Armour Divisor 2, or you could go with Very Fine's bonuses since they're pretty generous anyway. Add on the titanium modifier from High-Tech on top of that to reduce the weight.
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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
They sound too powerful and rare to be anything but plot points or MacGuffins.
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Even though the nobility doesn't have valyrian steel weapons as a matter of course, enough of them have ancestral valyrian steel swords that you'll need rules for them unless the context of the campaign precludes noble PCs.