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Originally Posted by vierasmarius
I had a similar thought. Weapons made of metal would be fashioned after stone ones. For example, rather than an iron sword, you'd see a Macuahuitl with iron teeth. Metal spear heads would be affixed like stone ones (splitting the wood, slotting the head in and wrapping with cord or sinew) rather than making a metal "sleave" that fits over the haft. Making the metal blades themselves would be another problem entirely... the few high-quality ones would be weapons of legend.
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Plus a Maquahuitl style weapons save metal. I suppose if they obsessively reforged their weapons then you could get some professionals and a bit of quality improvement.
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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
The thing is, you don't actually have to have a real metals shortage to fail to invent weaponized metal working. The inhabitants of the Americas are proof enough of that.
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Most of the inhabitants of the Americas. And the original poster wants a TL3 society with TL0 weapons not a couple parts of TL3 on an otherwise lower TL society which makes it harder to have them just not develop metal weapons.