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Old 07-15-2019, 04:33 AM   #34
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Default Re: Pros and cons of dungeons for hack and slash roleplaying

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
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.
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Originally Posted by Michael Thayne View Post
I'm pretty sure that way back in high school I was part of a group that found this rule, with amusing results. I forget if the players invoked it or they just said "we want to attack the walls with our sword" and the GM looked up the rule and went "whelp, OK, guess you can do that".
Hmm.. okay, that comes into the category of system bugs then. Short of making him do that damage many, many times to make a hole large enough to get through I have no idea how to make that work... in old school D&D you could at least have their weapons make repeated saving throws to avoid breaking at that kind of misuse...
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