How many of you use the Damage and Armor system as written?
I see plenty of justification for Extra Hard in the books but nothing beyond that. Greyswandir does not shatter swords or plate armor or, if it does, Corwin doesn’t bother to mention it. He does bisect a tiger-sized Chaosian with one stroke but he’s superhumanly strong. Julian’s armor and Morgenstern are proof against medium-sized handguns. That’s about it.
-rtrimmer, Amber Diceless RPG Yahoo!Group
I have always kind of suspected that Wujick conflated the silver properties of Grayswandir – which I assume from the fact that Random and Deirdre had him kill the weir – with pure damage output.
It’s not correct, and it’s another thing that the item and creature creation system cannot actually handle. There’s no provisio in the rules for silver affecting werewolves, cold iron affecting fae, or any other variation of material X affecting thing or species Y but otherwise having no particular affect on anything or anyone else.