"Silvery raindrops were running down his golden breast plate…"
A metal with all the properties of ordinary gold, water silver is quickly recognized if the ore mined is washed with water. Whenever its surface is covered with water, it attains the color and all the properties of silver. An item of this metal fully submerged in water is basically a silver item, while a partially covered one is literally made from gold and silver. This metal even changes it’s weight in water to match that of silver.
Any creature vulnerable to silver is vulnerable to the wet metal. It can be used in alchemy and any reaction as silver, if there is water to mask its surface.
Water silver can sometimes be found in gold veins, forming small streaks in the main vein. If it goes unnoticed to the smelters along with the ordinary gold it alloys perfectly with it, permanently lowering it’s yellow sheen and color to a more dulled shade of yellow (depending on the amount of water silver in the mixture). It generally makes people think that this particular batch of gold had lower quality or some other metal alloyed with it (which is true), and is dismissed.
When mining for this particular metal the ore is broken into smaller bits and then sought through under water for the bits containing the magical metal.
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2008-11-24 12:06 PM
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2008-11-25 09:56 AM
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2008-11-25 10:16 AM
It is not the most magical thing out there, it's just two things at once. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. Possibly the best use for it is as a flavour material, some bizarre occurrence for the players to gape at for a while and then treasure it or try to sell it as highly magical, or find some other use for it.
Tell me what you meant so I can make it better.
2008-11-25 11:24 AM
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2010-11-23 08:11 AM
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I think I agree with Scras'. Without more information for why/how it exists theres no reason to use it. I'm not sure theres even that huge of a different between the weights and properties of gold and silver for it to make a big difference. Why not use silver? why not use gold? It makes an interesting flavor addition, but I don't really like it.
2010-11-23 08:31 AM
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2010-11-23 09:31 AM
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A good beginning but I agree with Scras and Pieh, it feels unfinished. It is an interesting bit of color, but without some other in-game use, it is unlikely to be included in any campaign. Some ideas about it's unique use or some other reasons to add it to a campaign would really help.
2010-11-23 10:53 PM
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Brings to mind the Star Trek, Gold Pressed Latinum. Which I know it isn't but that is what I was thinking the entire time I read that. I am not saying I don't like the idea. I can see its use to some small degree for flavor and fluff of some kind, but frankly I don't see this as a viable source for income. A lot of players I game with argue constantly about dividing treasure... how do you divide a precious metal that is two in one?
The using it against creatures that can be harmed by silver is a plausible idea but how to keep the metal wet while fighting it seems virtually impossible. It has a short merit but it needs some more detail and work.