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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7965902" data-attributes="member: 6801845">They were chipping out mortar, not stone. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Old mortar can be easy to chip out but I also wouldn't be surprised if they were using a hammer and chisel.&nbsp;&nbsp; I mean, go ahead.&nbsp; Go out somewhere and find a nice chunk of granite.&nbsp; Try to carve through it with a jack-knife and see how far you get.&nbsp; Heck, use a hardened chisel with no hammer.&nbsp; It's something you could do following the letter of the rules in D&amp;D but in real life you'd break your knife first.&nbsp; There's a reason that trebuchets threw rocks that weighed at least a couple hundred pounds.&nbsp; Even then, it took constant bombardment over days if not weeks to take down walls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7965902, member: 6801845"] They were chipping out mortar, not stone. :) Old mortar can be easy to chip out but I also wouldn't be surprised if they were using a hammer and chisel. I mean, go ahead. Go out somewhere and find a nice chunk of granite. Try to carve through it with a jack-knife and see how far you get. Heck, use a hardened chisel with no hammer. It's something you could do following the letter of the rules in D&D but in real life you'd break your knife first. There's a reason that trebuchets threw rocks that weighed [I]at least [/I]a couple hundred pounds. Even then, it took constant bombardment over days if not weeks to take down walls. [/QUOTE]

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