So one of our players is a fighter whose backstory is that his beloved grandfather was also an adventurer. For his past three birthdays, the grandfather gave the fighter one of his three weapons -- a longsword, warhammer, and rapier, all masterwork. Three months ago, the grandfather died, and the fighter began his adventuring career. The idea is that he will use these three weapons for the entirety of his career, rather than swapping them out for whatever weapon happens to drop, and will pay to get them enchanted as he gets the money.
The issue is that we just got a +1 cold iron longsword, and clearly the fighter is the best one to use it, but he doesn't want to stop using his grandfather's weapons either.
Switching over to a cold iron weapon has pretty obvious advantages, but he then loses the flavor of it being his grandfather's sword. Ideas we came up with to get around this:
(1) Allow him to forge the blades together, and DM Fiat that it doesn't cause the cold iron to lose it's effectiveness.
(2) Separate the two blades from their hilts and attach the cold iron blade to his grandfather's hilt.
Any other ideas from the community? Thanks!
So one of our players is a fighter whose backstory is that his beloved grandfather was also an adventurer. For his past three birthdays, the grandfather gave the fighter one of his three weapons -- a longsword, warhammer, and rapier, all masterwork. Three months ago, the grandfather died, and the fighter began his adventuring career. The idea is that he will use these three weapons for the entirety of his career, rather than swapping them out for whatever weapon happens to drop, and will pay to get them enchanted as he gets the money.
The issue is that we just got a +1 cold iron longsword, and clearly the fighter is the best one to use it, but he doesn't want to stop using his grandfather's weapons either.
Switching over to a cold iron weapon has pretty obvious advantages, but he then loses the flavor of it being his grandfather's sword. Ideas we came up with to get around this:
(1) Allow him to forge the blades together, and DM Fiat that it doesn't cause the cold iron to lose it's effectiveness.
(2) Separate the two blades from their hilts and attach the cold iron blade to his grandfather's hilt.Any other ideas from the community? Thanks!
I would go with number 2, since it makes the most sense to me.
Both of those idea's sound good to me. Since the new weapon is a magic one, it might involve some magic ritual that transfers the magic from one weapon to the other or so.
If he doesn't want to use it, do not force him. It could just be sold to had to the enchantment fund or just carry it around and just pull it out when he needs to get around the correct DRs.
I had a character as well that used the greataxe of her grandfather. I seem to be falling into a cliche pit trap. Anyway, I decided that I was going to always use that weapon since it was an heirloom of great importance. Of course, in our Kingmaker game, we would run across other weapons that were obviously better for certain situations, therefore my barbarian would use them. Try talking to your player. He will not be unfaithful to his grandfather's honor and career if he uses a different weapon for a given circumstance.
If his grandfather was once a higher level adventurer (which I am assuming he was if he had gotten to that ripe old age), I'm sure he had MUCH better weapons than just those masterwork ones that he utilized.
I empathize with his dedication to character and history, but sometimes you also have to keep in mind what is best for the party. I'd be interested to hear what you both end up deciding to do :)
