08-20-2012, 01:34 PM | #21 |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
|
Re: Making a black blade
|
08-20-2012, 01:53 PM | #22 |
Join Date: Jan 2006
|
Re: Making a black blade
|
08-20-2012, 01:56 PM | #23 |
Dog of Lysdexics
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
|
Re: Making a black blade
So you're claiming in this context an aluminum bat isn't a metal bat? Because it's coated with such a salt, aluminum oxide.
|
08-20-2012, 01:57 PM | #24 |
Join Date: Jan 2006
|
Re: Making a black blade
Disregarding but not disrespecting the practical advice so far, how about just making it black via fiat? Unless it is important in the game "how" the sword was made black, a master craftsman/wizard/holy woman/trained sloth did it (possibly with a secret technique) and it cost 12 Quatloos.
|
08-20-2012, 02:04 PM | #25 | |
Join Date: Jan 2006
|
Re: Making a black blade
Quote:
Note that Al auto-oxides in Earth's atmosphere, so if you scrape it "clean" it will re-oxide on it's own quickly enough. Al is not appropriate for a sword though, and AiO2 is grey, not black. You can anodize Al black, but it will scrape shiny and oxide out to grey quickly enough... Making the sword out of solid metal oxide of the appropriate color will most likely result in a sword shaped object rather than a viable weapon. You might well postulate a metal that auto-oxidized black in atmosphere and was suitable for swords, but I am unaware of any RW examples. |
|
08-20-2012, 02:06 PM | #26 |
GURPS FAQ Keeper
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
|
Re: Making a black blade
Aluminium (the element) is a metal. Aluminium (the substance) isn't. An Oxide is explicitly not an element, nor does it consist solely of metal elements.
|
08-20-2012, 02:11 PM | #27 | |
Dog of Lysdexics
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
|
Re: Making a black blade
Quote:
Yet you say it fine to called an Aluminium Bat a Metal bat, but a Silver dagger tarnished with silver oxide is not a metal dagger? |
|
08-20-2012, 02:14 PM | #28 | |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
|
Re: Making a black blade
Quote:
__________________
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” Marcus Aurelius |
|
08-20-2012, 02:16 PM | #29 | ||
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
|
Re: Making a black blade
Quote:
Quote:
Last edited by Anthony; 08-20-2012 at 02:22 PM. |
||
08-20-2012, 03:32 PM | #30 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Earth, mostly
|
Re: Making a black blade
Also, as I understand it, oxidized or not, a silver sword or dagger is only a sword or dagger for one or two uses. Then it's a club. Same as the problem when someone in a game I was in insisted on having his weapons forged from gold - the DM let him have them, but a few moments into our first combat they changed from cutting weapons into bludgeons, then started deforming...
__________________
If you break the laws of Man, you go to prison. If you break the laws of God, you go to Hell. If you break the laws of Physics, you go to Sweden and receive a Nobel Prize. |
Tags |
sword, swords |
|
|