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<blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2451060" data-attributes="member: 23094">Stone has hardness 8 and 15 hit points per inch of thickness.A 5'x5'x5' piece of wall, therefore, has 900 hit points.Your average human miner is a 10 Strength commoner wielding a miner's pick (which is *not* the same thing as the military pick in the equipment / weapon section).For purposes of this exercise, I've always assumed it to be a two-handed, 1d12 20/x2 improvised weapon (for medium characters; a small one would do 1d10 damage).Under these assumptions, it would take our normal human miner 1.8 hours of constant swinging to cut a 5'x5'x5' hole in solid rock.&nbsp; If you assume he swings one round, rests the next, etc., it'd take him 3.6 hours to complete this task.Make him a half-orc (Str 12), and his time drops to 1.2 and 2.4 hours, respectively.I've attached my spreadsheet, so you can play with the assumptions yourself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patryn of Elvenshae, post: 2451060, member: 23094"] Stone has hardness 8 and 15 hit points per inch of thickness. A 5'x5'x5' piece of wall, therefore, has 900 hit points. Your average human miner is a 10 Strength commoner wielding a miner's pick (which is *not* the same thing as the military pick in the equipment / weapon section). For purposes of this exercise, I've always assumed it to be a two-handed, 1d12 20/x2 improvised weapon (for medium characters; a small one would do 1d10 damage). Under these assumptions, it would take our normal human miner 1.8 hours of constant swinging to cut a 5'x5'x5' hole in solid rock. If you assume he swings one round, rests the next, etc., it'd take him 3.6 hours to complete this task. Make him a half-orc (Str 12), and his time drops to 1.2 and 2.4 hours, respectively. I've attached my spreadsheet, so you can play with the assumptions yourself. [/QUOTE]

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