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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 311041" data-attributes="member: 1792">Re: Re: Re: its good to be kingYes you can because they have nothing to do with each other. What does the the nature of commodity of the item have to do with respect tha a foe should show for it? That argument makes no sense. You are assuming there is a link between an item's value to its owner and the level of threat that same item poses to a foe. If your fighter comes wielding the +5 Vorpal weapon against the Jaberwock and that is the only weapon that can hurt said jaberwock, that jaberwock would have to out of its (admittedly puny) mind to not to destroy the weapon. Take your argument to the extreme. You imply that because the +5 vorpal weapon is a valuable commodity to a character who owns it and he attaches personal importance to it, the DM should not have the the foe take the logical step of destroying the item even if that would allow the foe to preserve his own life. In short, the bad guy shoud not smash the PC uber weapon simply because it is the PC uber weapon and the PC likes it . . . a lot. Yeah right.  My balors and pit fiends will certainly smash whatever +3 weapon the fighter shows that he can damage them with, ESPECIALLY if it is the only one they have or if the PC particularly likes it. Heck, in the Birthright game I play in, a PC had a 1500 year-old dwarven heirloom +3 something, something shortsword that the Dwarf King specifically gave him for his help. The PC had that weapon for a year in real time (4 years game time)  and used it as his signature weapon . . . until a fight with a group of babau demons. He sneak-attacked a babau with the sword. The pissed off babau then broke the weapon with its acid claws and acided the pieces. The player was not happy (to put it kindly) but he took it like a champ. Especially after said babau then killed him because he no longer had a magic weapon that could injure them. After we raised the PC, he went back to the dwarves and they commissioned a new one for him, exactly like the old one, but reinforced with more hardness and acid resistant this time. Tzarevitch</blockquote>

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