Chaos Diamond - options for dealing with

[Infiniti2000]

Any chance you have Rideby Attack and Improved Disarm? That would be suh-weeet!

Makes me want to make a bad guy with those feats. Maybe with a dragon mount and adroit flyby attack.

 

[domino]

Being generous, it would be hardness 8 with 45 hit points (3 in. across). I could easily see it being 4 in. across for 60 hit points. I could also see the hardness being much higher, perhaps double, because it's not just any stone but diamond.

Where in we rehash "D&D hardness vs real world hardness."

If it were a diamond, I'd say it's got LOWER hardness. While in the real world, diamond is hard, it's also brittle. I could hammer on a one inch slab of iron until the cows came home and helped me hit it, with nary a dent. But a few good swings against a diamond could reduce it to dust, or at least a bunch of smaller diamond chunks.

So, if we were being accurate, I'd say diamond would have a D&D hardness of 2 or maybe 4.

 

[Legildur]

Well, went for the unarmed disarm and was successful! So my character now has a negative level (from holding the Chaos Diamond) and the half-demon sorceror cast Flesh to Stone on him instead (DC 26 Fort save, which he made with a +23 modifier). So my character's next trick is to try and disarm or sunder the spell component pouch to at least take the sorceror out of the fight (or is that the fight out of the sorceror?), but I think I'll start a new thread for that one. These tactics are new to most of us, as we typically just fight a war of attrition, so I appreciate the advice.

Edit: Good point Domino about the brittle nature of diamonds. I'd forgotten about that. And no doubt we'll be making use of that nature (assuming we survive) as no one in the party will tolerate such an item and the wizard can use it for spell components (he has Stoneskin memorised most days).