This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://swordscomic.com/comic/DCCLXV/
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://swordscomic.com/comic/DCCLXV/
Since metals are minerals, which are rock, then isn’t this sword nigh unbeatable? And you can make it stronger, too!
Wait, following that logic, paper wins against scissors too. Hmmm.
I may have created a paradox unintentionally.
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I like this sword. Too bad it’s not in another one of those choose your weapon ones. Sentient weapons are usually a bad idea for the wielder but the intellect relating to power could be quite good for adventurers. Cultivating a positive relationship with the sword could prod it into remembering key info for the wielder.
Nah. you’ve just misunderstood the relationship between metals, minerals and rocks.
Rocks may contain minerals, and both do contain metals, but metals are not rocks, and the only scissors that paper could possibly draw against (not beat) would be made of flint.
Right. Naturally occurring pure metals are one type of minerals, and rocks are made of those and other types of minerals, but that does not mean that all metals are rocks; some ores can be, but a smelted and forged steel alloy definitely is not.
But, more to the point, according to its info page the Paper Rapier is literally made of paper, and paper is not a metal, nor any kind of mineral, and certainly not rock.
So instead I’d propose what we have here is, in fact, a superior scissor/paper hybrid weapon that wins against both rock and paper and draws against scissors (shotgun or dynamite might go either way depending on the situation).
Shouldn’t that be the PAPIER RAPIER . . . ?
Also, Knowledge is Power, but Information is Ammunition !
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Just be thankful it’s not a paper rapier tapir! Then we’d really be in trouble.
Die by a thousand paper cuts