Meteoric Metal vs Magic

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Jerander

Wouldn't this depend on the composition of the meteor? Only if it's 100% meteoric metal would it be totally undetectable...

Who says meteoric rock isn't equally immune? It's just that magic-immune pebbles are generally less useful than magic-immune iron.

[Jeminai]

Wouldn't all parts of a meteor be "meteoric"?

[Jerander]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Who says meteoric rock isn't equally immune? It's just that magic-immune pebbles are generally less useful than magic-immune iron.

Who say it is? Meteoric rock isn't called out in DF (that I know of...?), but meteoric metal (iron?) is. So it seems to be a GM call.

Originally Posted by Jeminai

Wouldn't all parts of a meteor be "meteoric"?

"Meteoric" doesn't carry any special properties all on its own, as far as I know, in DF. Meteoric iron, though, is specifically called out as being immune to magic.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Jerander

Who say it is?

It's a GM call and the sort of thing that generally won't come up in setting, since stony meteorites basically look like rocks and are unlikely to be recognized for what they are until higher TL.

[dcarson]

Well you can find them by the fact that they don't respond to magic. So they might be good as sling ammo. Enough to build a wall is unlikely.

[PseudoFenton]

Originally Posted by Jeminai

Wouldn't all parts of a meteor be "meteoric"?

This is basically a setting question, and DF is a reductionist setting - so I'd least say it was in-keeping to use this assumption.

Originally Posted by Jerander

"Meteoric" doesn't carry any special properties all on its own, as far as I know, in DF. Meteoric iron, though, is specifically called out as being immune to magic.

Well very few things fall out of the heavens really, so it might be that anything that does is considered "meteoric" and is conveniently also immune to magic.

Originally Posted by dcarson

Well you can find them by the fact that they don't respond to magic. So they might be good as sling ammo. Enough to build a wall is unlikely.

This is great reason for allowing this kind of interpretation of the rules, as you now have magically immune, cheap - but weak ammunition for your slings!


However as has been said already - this is basically the GM's call. If the GM wants to smite a magically danger sensing foe without them realising - then they can say that the meteor is 100% iron anyway. If the GM wants oddly vague prophecies about the end of the world due to it being struck by a meteor, then its the entire basis of the plot and "story trumps rules" here imo as without a GM telling a story the rules are kinda pointless.