What are cold iron and silver weapons?
stargazerb
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Monkeying around with DLTCEP I see that I can set weapons to be either cold iron, silver, or both.
I know one boss in TotSC needs a silver weapon to kill him, but I had assumed that that was just a scripted property or whatever of those particular weapons.
So what do silver and cold iron do? How are they different? And what weapons have these properties?
I know one boss in TotSC needs a silver weapon to kill him, but I had assumed that that was just a scripted property or whatever of those particular weapons.
So what do silver and cold iron do? How are they different? And what weapons have these properties?
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Also the longsword you can get in durlag's tower works as well. I think it's Flametongue? Anyway its +2 versus regen, +3 verse something else and I think +4 versus undead. Definitely hits the Greater Wolfwere since my blade just destroyed him in my last game.
Cold iron is some sort of special iron that's really sensitive to...stuff and things and hurts faeries and demons and other creatures more better than normal iron. Mostly going off of v3.5, but uuugh, enchanting it is expensive!
This iron, mined deep underground, known for its effectiveness against fey creatures, is forged at a lower temperature to preserve its delicate properties. Weapons made of cold iron cost twice as much to make as their normal counterparts. Also, any magical enhancements cost an additional 2,000 gp.
Items without metal parts cannot be made from cold iron. An arrow could be made of cold iron, but a quarterstaff could not.
A double weapon that has only half of it made of cold iron increases its cost by 50%.
Cold iron has 30 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 10.
(Alchemical) Silver
A complex process involving metallurgy and alchemy can bond silver to a weapon made of steel so that it bypasses the damage reduction of creatures such as lycanthropes.
The alchemical silvering process can’t be applied to nonmetal items, and it doesn’t work on rare metals such as adamantine, cold iron, and mithral.
Alchemical silver has 10 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 8.
Cold Iron weapons are essentially weapons designed to kill fairies and other fey creatures like pixies, Fomorians, Gnomes, Hags, Faerie Dragons, Mirage Dragons, Sprites, Sylphs, Nymphs, Dryads, etc.
Basically anything that originated in the Feywild.
In practice this doesn't have many real consequences though since all weapons with one of those flags also have the other, with the exception of Albruin which is silver only.