09-12-2012, 07:35 PM | #101 | |
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Re: Meteoric Iron Arrows
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09-12-2012, 07:43 PM | #102 |
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Re: Meteoric Iron Arrows
My preference would be to treat Meteoric Iron as an extremely-localized No Mana Zone. Spells that can cross NMZs would have normal effect (ie, Missile spells), but any spell with a duration (including Permanent or enchantments) would be suspended or dispelled when passing through it. If there was a magic spell that improved the structural integrity of armor instantaneously (rather than an ongoing Permanent spell) it would be fully effective against Meteoric; but Fortify, as an enchantment, is disabled within a NMZ, and thus should be bypassed by Meteoric weapons.
This is all IMO, of course. By RAW, Meteoric gets some, but not all, of the benefits of a NMZ. Because it's not consistent, it's hard to figure out its effect on any specific spell or enchantment. |
09-12-2012, 09:20 PM | #103 |
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Re: Meteoric Iron Arrows
I wince to report that a historian lady friend tells me the Hellenes apparently had metal catheters. Also:
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09-12-2012, 09:28 PM | #104 |
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Not sure how that is relevant in this thread. In any case the so-called Bagdad Battery is more likely just a scroll case. The so-called acidic resdue in the container is probably the remains of papyrus.
Here is a good collection of Greek and Roman surgical instruments http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/instr1.html
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09-12-2012, 11:08 PM | #105 | |
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09-12-2012, 11:13 PM | #106 |
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Re: Meteoric Iron Arrows
There are plenty of examples of non-ferrous tubes. Until recently it was thought that it wasn't possible to make thin tubes from iron using medieval technology.
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09-12-2012, 11:55 PM | #107 |
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Why is ferrous metal a problem for medieval crafting of thin tubes?
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09-13-2012, 12:06 AM | #108 |
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09-13-2012, 12:21 AM | #109 |
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This doesn't provide any additional information to me.
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09-13-2012, 12:57 AM | #110 |
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Re: Meteoric Iron Arrows
Iron requires the highest temperature to soften of any metal that was used at TL 3, temperatures that are hard to achieve with TL 3 forges, and thus it's relatively difficult to work. The easy way to create a metal tube is to just heat a metal sheet until soft and bending it around a rod, but iron requires too high temperatures to do that easily.
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