10-13-2016, 06:08 PM | #1 |
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Price of Aluminum of Yrth?
Fairly simple, anyone got any ideas?
For those interested the reason I'm asking Aluminum should make a good axe head, at least better then gold, and due to the way the Staff enchantment works you would need to make it out of something valuable, which Aluminum should be on Yrth. Several other metals could stand in on this, most notably the hardest steels we can make IRL |
10-13-2016, 06:35 PM | #3 |
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Re: Price of Aluminum of Yrth?
I doubt that most people on Yrth would have the chemical know-how to produce aluminum. If it is produced in meaningful quantities, it is definitely more valuable than gold (pure aluminum was more valuable than gold in the 1880s, and thus would probably be even more expensive with the lower technologies available Yrthians). If not, it is a curiosity like platinum and priced accordingly.
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10-13-2016, 06:51 PM | #4 | |
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10-13-2016, 07:07 PM | #5 |
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Re: Price of Aluminum of Yrth?
Fantasy Tech 1 discusses aluminum.
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10-13-2016, 07:10 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Price of Aluminum of Yrth?
Start with the price of gold and move up from there. Until modern industrial methods were developed to extract aluminum from ore refined aluminum was very rare and expensive. Even given the possibility of magical extraction or creation it should still be roughly as expensive as Gold, if only because Mages are a valuable resource themselves.
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10-13-2016, 07:43 PM | #7 | |
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You could cast Seek Earth on a piece of Banestormed aluminum but I'm not even sure that would lead you to bauxite. Mass production of metallic aluminum depends on TL6 electro-chemistry. I'm not even sure why we want to put an aluminum end cap on a Staff unless we're talking about a DF Power Item instead of an actual Staff Enchantment item.
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10-13-2016, 07:44 PM | #8 |
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Re: Price of Aluminum of Yrth?
Which is, for that matter, one of those "flavor" limitations so that casters will carry around proper staves to match their pointy hats and wizard robes with moons and stars on them. If that's not desirable for the setting, houserules for that game could allow metal items with the Staff spell. It's not a balance issue.
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10-13-2016, 07:45 PM | #9 | |
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10-13-2016, 08:03 PM | #10 | |
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