Silvering a Staff

[stonegolem]

The rulebook suggests that a staff has two edges for the purposes of weapon coatings, and therefore two separate carriers can be applied to the same staff - Weakness Poison and Silver, for example.

Is it possible to have a blacksmith silver a staff, but keep one side "unsilvered," allowing one end of the staff to be swung as Silver and the other end to be swung as Normal?

 

[Draven]

You can coat part of a weapon, but you can't smith part of it silver. Either it's all silver or none of it is.

 

[Sheakhan]

Can't you still call normal with a silvered weapon?

 

[Avaran]

Can't you still call normal with a silvered weapon?

No. You must call "Silver" or another carrier (Flame, Magic, Ice, Earth, etc.) with a Silvered weapon. You may NOT call "Normal".

 

[Alkalin3]

It's not where you'd expect in it the ARB. There's two passages that address this situation.

This suggests that monsters can't do it.

For example: A death knight with the carrier attack Magic and a silver longsword may call “10 magic” or “10 silver.” It may not call “10 normal.

Which explicitly says character can choose these to swing. based on the weapon, a damage aura, or an elemental aura.

If a character has multiple carriers that could be applied, such as Normal (for the weapon), Magic (for a Damage Aura), and Stone (for an Elemental Aura), the character may choose which carrier to apply to their swing.

 

[Avaran]

Page 94 of the ARB:

If you have no special attributes on your
attack, then you must call “Normal.” If you have
a silvered weapon, then you must call “Silver.”

 

[Alkalin3]

Great. Even better. I must have missed that section when I was looking for the example.