Force damage question

[kreynolds]

Sonic damage is reduced by Hardness, it's just not cut in half before you apply the damage to an object.

You sure? The text says...

"Acid and sonic attacks deal damage to most objects just as they do to creatures; roll damage and apply it normally after a successful hit."

It doesn't mention hardness. When sonic energy damages creatures, there's no hardness. Electricity, fire and cold all mention hardness, but acid and sonic don't. I suppose I could understand the argument that "apply it normally" refers to Hardness four paragraphs up, which states that all objects have hardness. So, applying it normally would mean applying the hardness.

Hm.

 

[James McMurray]

This month's dragon magazine talks about this. Althogh most of us can agree that Mr. Sage isn't always playing the sameg ame as we are, here's what he has to say (paraphrased):

acid and soncic attacks ignore hardness
hardness applies to electricity and cold
hardness applies to cold damage
force effects ignore hardness

This is all in regards to a question about attacking animated objects, and he basically says that you don't halve the energy damage versus animated objects because they are creatures, but they do still get their hardness.

 

[kreynolds]

That's right. Page 101. I knew I'd seen that somewhere.