Deadly Dealer with metal cards?

[Bioboygamer]

In Ultimate Equipment, sets of playing cards are stated to come in many varieties, from thick paper to wood, ivory or metal.

The Deadly Dealer feat allows the character to use playing cards as thrown weapons, using the statistics for darts.

It occurs to me that a thrown playing card made of metal should do significantly more damage than one made of paper. Heck, you could sharpen the edges!

Does this have any basis in the rules? Even if it doesn't, what would be a realistic damage to houserule for more expensive cards?

[Arachnofiend]

The damage from Deadly Dealer is coming from magically enhancing the cards, not from the cards themselves. The material itself shouldn't matter much.

[Bioboygamer]

Arachnofiend wrote:

The damage from Deadly Dealer is coming from magically enhancing the cards, not from the cards themselves. The material itself shouldn't matter much.

Still, I would imagine that a correctly-thrown metal playing card would deal at least a small amount of damage. Effectively, an unenhanced metal card would be a shuriken.

I guess it just seems odd to me that you could throw a magically enhanced piece of paper and do the same amount of damage as a similarly shaped piece of metal that has been enhanced in the exact same way.

[Helcack]

The reason for that I believe is you could make the cards out of special materials to overcome DR.

[Bioboygamer]

Helcack wrote:

The reason for that I believe is you could make the cards out of special materials to overcome DR.

But then why not just make darts out of those materials? That way, they'd still be useful as weapons if you can't use a swift action to enhance them.

In fact, what would be the problem with specially-made cards bypassing DR if they were made of the right material? They're no different from other similar weapons, and they don't even have the benefit of having a 50% chance to be intact if the attack misses!

Besides, who in their right mind would waste valuable materials on that fancy of a deck of playing cards? If you honestly think that painstakingly forging a one-time use 52 (or 54, with the jokers) card deck out of adamantine, then you are only a few small steps away from the Mithral Waffle Iron, and I fear nothing can save you.