Availability of cold iron weapons in a village


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My group is starting the Reign of Winter AP. The group starts in a village of 161 people and I wasn't sure what the likelihood of finding all of the weapons they want to purchase in cold iron would be. Do you feel that it would be a common thing to find common weapons in cold iron or it would be more of a specialty item that would need to be made and/or imported from a larger town?

Or am I thinking too hard about this and just hand wave they can find the gear that they need? How do other GM's handle this?

A village's base limit is 250GP and at minimum a cold iron weapon is 300gp + the item cost, so I would tend to say not generally available.

Under Settlements it is listed for magical items there would be a 75% chance of that item being available, but cold iron weapons are not magical.


Your call as GM, but unlikely available from a store, especially in the exact desired item.

If they truly "need" one, the PCs may be able to track down a specific villager's family heirloom or something along those lines that they can barter for.


Just in case I'm posting any spoilers for ROW:

I'm also running this AP and cut the players a little slack in regards to cold iron weapons because of how common fey are in the locality of the village. But they certainly didn't get the cold iron falchion or bastard sword they wanted, just a dagger and longspear. At the end of the day these are villagers and though they might need to defend themselves against fey one day, they would only have basic weapons that called for the bare minimum amount of cold iron material.

They should also have the cold iron longsword taken from Yuln early in book 1 so at least the warrior in your group will have a good weapon

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Or they need to commission them. Just don't let that get in the way of the action. Maybe they will find what they need, but not what they want.


Thanks for your feedback guys!


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Don't forget about small batches of ammunition.


The Rising Phoenix wrote:
at minimum a cold iron weapon is 300gp + the item cost, so I would tend to say not generally available

Where are you getting this from? According to the Core Rulebook, cold iron weapons merely cost twice that of their iron counterparts. It's an extra 2,000gp to enchant them, yes. But they are definitely affordable in non-magical, non-masterwork versions.


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He probably got confused with the cost for masterwork weapons. Cold iron weapons are not automatically masterwork, however.

EDIT: As a GM, I would go with GM-JZ's ruling above. Just make sure the players work with what they have instead of dictating what they should get.

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