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Originally Posted by The Colonel
No matter how hard your axe, digging out stone with it should still take "the contagious". There are things that the D&D powercurve necessarily breaks (like, ironically, both dungeons and dragons) but manual tunnelling should not be part of that.
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In 3.5e, 5' of stone has AC 3, hardness 8 and 900 hp (and wall of stone clarifies that this is 15 hp per inch). A 6th level fighter with Str 16, power attack, and a +1 pick used in two hands, will do 1d6+17 with attack bonus +5/+0, or an average of 23 damage per round, and will blow through that wall in about thirty rounds.