> In a message dated 11/29/00 5:27:37PM, you write:
>
> << I'm just pointing out what, to me, seems to be the most obvious and
> logical way to interpret the Elder Secrets definitions of Iron.>>
>
> I am not sure anyone else would agree with you. I would make sense, if
> enchanted iron were not poison to trolls, for them to have and use enchanted
> iron armour, for example. I am, however, positive that trolls would not be
> able to wear iron armour without a SERIOUS rash developing.
Oh! I agree with you on that, definitely. I don't think Iron is good for trolls or elves (and their kin) in any form, but I think it wouldn't give the doubled damage effect. The difference would be like that between a red hot piece of metal, and one that is only too hot to touch.
> There has never
> been any evidence of troll use of enchanted iron, even though they are
> pragmatic enough to use what's good for them.
I agree, but it doesnt have to mean that enchanted iron is as terrible a poison to them as the unenchanted kind.
> FWIW I always picture unenchanted iron as really really brittle, like cast
> iron, with a anti magic effect that can be imagined as a magnetic field.
> Enchanting the iron just makes it like RW steel, and gets rid of the magnetic
> field by doing stuff to the bits that make up the steel (I can't remember my
> materials science, but something to do with particle size? crystal size?).
crystal alignment and size, but also carbon content. It's hardly a pure metal anymore.
> <<I find this hostility rather surprising Peter. Can't we have a civilized
> discussion here?
> -Adept >>
>
> I am probably in a minority, but I think if you can't be obstreperous and
> rude on mailing lists then where can you? Almost no chance of getting a punch
> on the nose, and instant tension release when you read soemthing and think
> "bah! that's wrong!".
>
> Keith N
There's something to that. But unfortunately people react rather strongly on the internet. You can't see expressions or hear the tone of voice, words come across rather harsher than they do live.
I try to be diplomatic and calm on the net. Obviously I don't always achieve this.
-Adept
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