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The_Kakaze

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Weapons that gain names
« on: February 01, 2013, 01:32:41 pm »

Do weapons that dwarfs name gain the x3 artifact bonus?  Does this stack with its original item quality, or would it replace it?
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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2013, 01:51:56 pm »

it becomes some kind of psuedo-artifact. it maintains it's original quality and everything. really just a flavor thing, And weapons that gain names are basically the next closest thing to that soldier after their wife/husband.

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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2013, 11:32:21 pm »

Yes, take Bilbo's normal everyday iron dagger he looted from a dead orc's hoard. He named it sting because he had an adventurer high from killing many un-indigenous Giant Cave Spiders in a forest. Which saved 13 historical dwarf figures.
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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2013, 08:54:40 am »

it becomes some kind of psuedo-artifact. it maintains it's original quality and everything. really just a flavor thing, And weapons that gain names are basically the next closest thing to that soldier after their wife/husband.
Well currently they don't give a shit if you take their dragon-slaying axe and give it to Urist McRecruit, or crush it under a bridge for that matter. I expect that will change in an update or two.
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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2013, 10:16:55 am »

it becomes some kind of psuedo-artifact. it maintains it's original quality and everything. really just a flavor thing, And weapons that gain names are basically the next closest thing to that soldier after their wife/husband.
Well currently they don't give a shit if you take their dragon-slaying axe and give it to Urist McRecruit, or crush it under a bridge for that matter. I expect that will change in an update or two.

Yeah, but damn is it satisfying when you get that announcement, especially when it was something awesome like killing a giant noseless cyclopic horse with deadly spittle using a glorified copper toothpick. Or beat a giant skinless gila monster to death with a bronze mace.

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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2013, 10:22:27 am »

it becomes some kind of psuedo-artifact. it maintains it's original quality and everything. really just a flavor thing, And weapons that gain names are basically the next closest thing to that soldier after their wife/husband.
Well currently they don't give a shit if you take their dragon-slaying axe and give it to Urist McRecruit, or crush it under a bridge for that matter. I expect that will change in an update or two.

Yeah, but damn is it satisfying when you get that announcement, especially when it was something awesome like killing a giant noseless cyclopic horse with deadly spittle using a glorified copper toothpick. Or beat a giant skinless gila monster to death with a bronze mace.
Concurred. I once had a named copper battleaxe with over 30 goblin kills and two forgotten beast kills.
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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2013, 11:51:07 am »

Yes, take Bilbo's normal everyday iron dagger he looted from a dead orc's hoard. He named it sting because he had an adventurer high from killing many un-indigenous Giant Cave Spiders in a forest. Which saved 13 historical dwarf figures.
Perhaps it's off-topic, but it wasn't quite "normal everyday". It did, after all, eventually manage to "put a pin in Shelob", not to mention how it would glow whenever orcs were around. It was made in Gondolin, as I recall, which was in Beleriand.

Less off-topic: Splint's right - weapons don't gain any special qualities when they're named.
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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2013, 01:10:57 pm »

Funny enough I just read "the Hobbit"again, and I recall Sting being elvish make.

And you guys are lucky, all my dwarves name their weapons by sparring before they even kill anything.
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Re: Weapons that gain names
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2013, 01:16:25 pm »

The copper spear and mace were actual occurances. The spear was even that soldier's first kill. The mace.... i think it was my champion's what, 90-somethingth kill, fourth FB.