Topic: Q:Armsmaster warriorblade

[Malim]

Is the armsmaster warrior blade magic in the crit list sense.

[Majyk]

Just like Druidstaff’s list back in RMCI, they never posted whether it was NM or M.
We always used Magic, though I would ask that the player adventure for finding the magical wood needed to craft such a staff, so the wood itself was actually magical and thus allowed Magic boni.


Do the same with the blade.  Have the PC quest for Magic Low Iron(a meteor lands somewhere and he has a vision or sees it happen).
After that, let the spells do the rest and shape it.


This helps make the blade special vs, “oh, I can make these a dime a dozen.” (even though only one at a time is a ruling for the fine print of the spell)


If made with regular metal, it will have a NM bonus, instead.

[OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol]

I'd say that the first version (Minor warriorblade) is not magical, with the bonus being due to the attuning, whereas later versions  (Lesser warriorblade and above) are magical, as they function as either spell adders or multipliers, which are fully magical abilities.

[Malim]

So if a staff +1 spell adder is also magic weapons collum if you use it as weapon? If you use your logic

[OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol]

Well, it is a magical item!

[Malim]

Yes. But what about in the crit table sense

[OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol]

The critical table only has a "magic" column, for when the item being used is magical. In the present case, as you admitted, the item is magic, so I don't know where the problem is…

[Prince Finnion]

I would say the staff would have to be magical to be an adder or multiplier.  This does not mean it would automatically gain a +5 or whatever bonus, only that it is enchanted and therefore magical.  Making a staff an adder does have a cost applied, although I think it's to low.

I do like the idea of the quest for materials.  When I played mine I had to role play smithing the metal with the swordsmith npc, but actually searching for the right metals would have been fun.