Thickness of Armor Question?

[melkoriii]

Ok, so what if you pour acid over it. I used the hardness of 10 for metal.

At 1 hp per any given location, the acid would immediately eat through (if it beat the hardness), wouldn't you say?

Aluvial

Well does acid ignor Hardness?
If so then yes. Otherwise I dont think so. Acid does dice in damage and so you would need to roll (unless its max posible is less than 10 of cource).

 

[S'mon]

Ok, so what if you pour acid over it. I used the hardness of 10 for metal.

At 1 hp per any given location, the acid would immediately eat through (if it beat the hardness), wouldn't you say?

Aluvial

That would depend...

You would need to be concentrating all the acid's damage at a small (1hp) point - eg the acid on an arrowhead, or a single drop. This would be a small amount of acid that shouldn't do much damage. If it's very powerful (powerful enough that a bath of it would instantly dissolve the whole metal suit of armour) then, yes, it would. Personally I would think the magic acid from Melf's Acid Arrow would be about the strongest possible, so that's a guide.

NB: We're not considering the padding here, it would be several mm thick, maybe 1/4 inch.