Re: Missile Weapons

[Greg Mowczko <mooch@ns1.cioe.com>]

> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:00:13 -0700
> From: Jamie <shyryly@geocities.com>
> To: Greg Mowczko <mooch@ns1.cioe.com>
>
> Greg, you're going by the name of the ability, not the definition as listed
> under "Dwarves".  It's for stone and metallic materials.  Ironwood? (hardly)
>
> (p.94 in the small manual)
>
> -Jamie

	Actually what I'm going by is precedence ( there is that word again )
and before someone says anything about it isn't a written precedence or 
something like that. This precedence came down years and years ago from Dan
himself. According to the book a Dwarf could tell you what makes up any
metal since that is made but it has been ruled that steel shows up as steel
and not iron and carbon and brass is brass not copper and zinc.

						Greg

> =====
> Greg Mowczko wrote:
>
> > Ah but a Dwarf has "material sence" not "metal sence". A dwarf can
> > tell you what "anything" is. If you take a dwarf and give him a piece
> > of wood he will tell you it is oak. If the dwarf was never in a forest
> > and never "felt" oak he couldn't tell you since it would be "alien" to
> > his touch. Once though he felt it he will know it the next time he
> > encounters it. Kindergarten for dwarfs is like a scrap shop I figure.
> > Little dwarf is encouraged to pick something up and then is told what it
> > is so from then on he will "know". As Dom Foran I can tell you that
> > the clear substance you handed me is transparent Aluminum since I was on
> > a ship and went out of my way to touch everything and get names to go
> > with it. As Dom though I have problems differentiating between woods
> > since I grew up in a mining town and didn't get the tree experience beyond
> > simple basic trees such as oak, pine and elms.
> >
> >                                                 Greg