Mage Blade

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Originally Posted by Mark Skarr

That is a ridiculous amount of damage for a fantasy game. That’s ST 33/34 swing damage for a Magery 3 character (with an Armor Divisor!), and ST 22 swing damage for a Magery 2 character. You suddenly become the party damage dealer. Who cares t hat it costs you 2 FP per 2.5 minutes . . . that’s longer than the fight is expected to last, and, once they see your weapon, they’re not likely to want to continue fighting.

Unless the other characters are packing ultra-tech weapons or armor, it’s drastically unfair.

I must agree, for a none Ultra Tech game this is very high damage. Consider that a heavy armored knight in Plate and Mail would have DR 7+5/3 = 12/10. Even with full magical armor protection of +5 he "only" gets DR 17/15.

In a TL 0-4 (even 5-8) game I would consider granting the weapon different damage and recalculate it´s armor divider.

Example. Mage Blade - Based on Broadsword Sw +2 cut Thr +1 Imp.
Magery 0 +1
Magery 1 +2
Magery 2 +3 (2)
Magery 3 +1d (2)
Magery 4 +1d+1 (3)
Magery 5 +1d+2 (3)
Magery 6 +1d+3 (5)
Magery 7 +2d (5)
Magery 8 +2d+1 (10)
Magery 9 +2d+2 (10)
Magery 10 +3d (100)

So a Wizard with ST 9 and Magery 0 would swing the sword doing 1d+2 Magery 3 2d+1 (2). He could hurt most armored enemies in any TL 0-4 campaign.

This would be a fitting "Lightsaber" for a normal Fantasy game, even DF game.

Of course there is nothing that says that the blade can´t be Fine or Very Fine adding +1 and +2.