Re: Stormbringer is wimpy

[Mark Wedel <master@rahul.net>]

 cancellation will remove the magical plus of a weapon (ie, turn
a darkblade +4 into just a darkblade).  IT will not remove abilities
(str, dex, con, etc, or immune,protected,vulnerable status).

 To create your own artifact weapon, it only checks to see if the 
item has a magical plus.  Thus, a +0 darkblade is enchantable.

 I don't know if there is any really good solution, unless you absolute
want to require that items be of nonmagical origons.  However, what
about some of the 'lesser' artifacts?  Lesser being ones that are created
via the artifacts file.  If you have a club of sanwe, should that be
enchantable?

 Also, even without cancellation, you could drain main artifact weapons
of their pluses. Just attack a rust monster or acid sphere or many
similar type of creatures.  However, this won't work for many artifacts,
because they have no material type, and if an item has no material type,
it is invulnerable to everything (bug or feature?)

 Also, even for items that are created out of some material, they still
get a saving throw, and if they have high enough pluses, they will never
fail (it is not like D&D where a 1 always fails.  Here, if the item has
enough pluses, it will succeed even on a 1.)

 --Mark