Timeline for Can I make a silver piece into an improvised ammunition for a sling (and still get the benefit as a silver weapon)?
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 11:00 | comment | added | Hey I Can Chan |
Fair enough. I'm no numismatist, either. :-) And while I can (and, honestly, did) understand the difference between he's been a bad DM and he's a bad DM, that's still a very subtle distinction and liable to be taken the wrong way. Just a heads-up.
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 10:35 | comment | added | Drenzul | It wasn't that was in 3rd ed, it was any silver that worked. Alchemical silver was steel treated to have the properties of silver which was entirely different. Very very few coins from medieval periods were anything other their true metals, thats a recent thing, almost all fantasy world follow the same trend, hence why you can weigh coins to check their value. I didn't actually say he was a bad DM, just in this instance hes been a bad DM by blindly sticking to the book prices regardless of common sense and logic. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 10:04 | comment | added | Hey I Can Chan | Please excuse my unfamiliarity with both 5e and metallurgy, but in previous editions, silver weapons were often called alchemical silver weapons, differentiating them from, for example, silver flatware and jewelry. Is that no longer the case in 5e? Further, are 5e silver pieces actually full-on, totally, 100% silver or a mix like contemporary coins? (And I'm pretty sure it's not entirely fair to call a DM that uses book prices—even when the book prices seem dumb—a bad DM: the game's designers might've set those prices because of considerations other than realism.) | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 9:28 | history | answered | Drenzul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |