Malinous' Battlehammer

[GM / Malinous]

(1) 11 days.
Craft My own Battle hammer: 8 Base days + 3 to reduce difficulty
Difficulty: 8 (8-3) I want to make it with a metal haft, 5 is a normal battle hammer, so a "good" success seems appropriate!).
I assume this adds 50% to weight of hammer and increases str. required to wield it by 1.

(2) Forge Weapon 1: 3 Days per attempt [Going for +1, costs 125 silver! Using the same rules as potions, i.e., 50% because I'm not providing anything - raw metals or forge].

(3) With remaining days, if any begin carving a shallow M into each non-striking face of the battle hammer, and write in small letters on the side of the weapon "The Dagger" (the first notable foe we defeated).

This will take a total of 4 days before I make the TN 4 rune test! [The range on Artisan tests is 5-7, 7 seems appropriate for metal. Taking 3 extra days for the max -3 bonus!]. Actually, this test will be for a single M. I intend to *take my time*.

In addition, I'd like to copy handwriting of each of the Brothers for Each M. So one face will be My handwriting style, one face I would have Mal draw an M on parchment, and I'd copy it, and one face I"d have Mawaris draw an M on parchment, and copy it. 4 Days per M.

And an additional 4 days for "The Dagger". Since I roll 2d8, at least I can't ruin the weapon if I spend the full 4 days! [I'm stealing the extra time rule from crafting for this, which is basically a crafting test!].

. . . assuming we survive this adventure and actually defeat the Dagger. Given that we're first circle, I"m not afraid to have us fail for now, and him disappear . . . if we have bad luck.

[GM / Malinous]

I intend to work the material of the flight dagger into a metal length that will wrap over the head, even mroe firmly affixing it to the haft. Offsetting the weight of the metal haft.

Just looked up the heartblade. I may follow the rules on it, but will start planning it *now*.

Or I may just not make one. The bonuses are neat, but I can live withotu (causes permanent damage). More troubling is simply that I want an item I pour myself into *before* 9th Circle. So I'm going to just craft my battlehammer without those rules!

Most likely I'll improv. You can let me know if something seems overpowered. I won't add any heart-blade like powers until at least 8th circle, and it will be *at least* as difficult to craft as a standard heartblade. Possibly more!

[GM / Malinous]

Additional Thought:
Make it a hand-and-a-half like the back sides of a Scythan Waraxe.
[+1 to climbing tests with the hool/spike on the back, and can be used as a hammer.]
So like +2 to the base crafting difficulty. Looking at a 10 base now :-p.

It would be neat to work a firestarter's elements into a coiling-dragon motif around the spike, and then have the spike be the side that conjures flame :-). But that will have to wait until 4th circle/threadweaving 5 if I want to do it myself. Which I do! I'd want the assistance of a fire spirit to make it like the sword i'm stealing the design from, anyways. I'd just use the raw material from the firestarter as a base! Still debating that iron haft, something I could work true wood into might be more tempting! Maybe wood sheathed in metal, so I can keep any runes I carve into the handle(haft) before acquiring the true wood:-p.

True earth would probably be worked into the metal of the hammer-head.

Fire, air, earth, wood, check! The water's a little iffier, but wood and water get along fine. probably some kind of gemstone at the base of the haft.

[ehren]

You could always have it slightly hollow, and put some of the true water in there - have it act as a fulcrum and add more force to your swings...

[GM / Malinous]

yeah, although that traditionally adds a penalty to hit, and it's hard to hit! . . . and then it's a hollow wooden tube inside a hollow metal tube, which doesn't seem solid enough to me. Of course, really amusing would be a gem of true water frozen into crystalline ice.

[GM / Malinous]

Oh that's why I kept the flight dagger.