Price of Aluminum of Yrth?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I think the Klaxxi from World Of Warcraft may like to have a word with you about that. Amber is their food, currency, weapons, etc. it seems.

Yrth isn't Azeroth...
Other than being secondary world fantasy, with some of the same names for humanoid races, they actually have little in common.

With magic, all things are possible.

I don't have any idea how you make an effective amber spear with GURPS Magic but if you do, I suspect it would be both expensive and suboptimal enough that its rarity wouldn't present a plausibility problem. I am certain it costs significantly more than the $13 or whatever a quartestave with Staff does.

[Flyndaran]

Okay if you want to be a fuddy duddy...
Then staff spell obviously means for staffs only. If it's a spear, then it's no longer a staff. Put a blade on it in any way, it no longer remains a staff.
Jingly crap's allowed as it's just stuff on a staff.

[CraigM]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Look, if this was possible, the Knights Templar would absolutely already be doing this, ergo it isn't possible in Yrth.

Where does it say that they aren't?

I'd fully expect the Templars to be deploying mage-knights clad in heavily enchanted plate, swinging Staff-enchanted Duelling Halberds around.

[scc]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Yes, but absent being able to read the actual words we have no idea if your paraphrase is correct.

Yep, but I have managed to find it: http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...7&postcount=51

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by CraigM

Where does it say that they aren't?

I'd fully expect the Templars to be deploying mage-knights clad in heavily enchanted plate, swinging Staff-enchanted Duelling Halberds around.

Then they are and the OP can just use one of those

[scc]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Then they are and the OP can just use one of those

Maybe not quite, I doubt the Templar's sell those

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by scc

Yep, but I have managed to find it: http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...7&postcount=51

Meh, I would just disagree with Kromm there (the fundamental feature of decoration isn't value -- cheap bits of glass can be decorative. The fundamental feature of decoration is that it's purpose is aesthetic rather than functional. Thus, an axe head can only be decorative if it's useless as an axe).

[Phil Masters]

I'd be tempted to pinch an idea from the Discworld; symbolism is power. So, (a) a wizard's staff tends to take a shape that somehow reflects the owner's nature and personality, possibly changing shape over time, and (b) any attempt to deviate from the basic staff-iness of staves is chancy at best. (There is one metal staff in the books. It's extremely powerful, and it's seen as weird and ultimately proves deeply scary.) So you get plain staffs and twisted gnarly staffs and so on, but a staff with an axe head would not be a staff, because it'd be an axe, and fitting an axe head to your staff would be like conducting brain surgery on yourself.

I guess that you could then have wizard characters whose personalities do permit weapon fixings on their staves, but that'd be an Unusual Background and allow the GM to insist that the wizard be a weird, messed up, violent, psychotically pragmatic person - and every other wizard would know this the moment they saw his staff, and react accordingly.

Oh, and a wizard's staff has a knob on the end.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

...
Oh, and a wizard's staff has a knob on the end.

I'll take innocent gaming quotes taken out of context for $200, Alex.

[DaibhidC]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I'll take innocent gaming quotes taken out of context for $200, Alex.

Not that innocent; on the Discworld, "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End" is a popular drinking song that wizards themselves don't really understand.