Is a sundered Divine Focus useless to a cleric (or druid or ranger or paladin)? Aoo?

[Emirikol]

Is a sundered DF useless? For example, a cleric holds up his silver cross of Pelor and the vampire he's facing, with a ready-action, sunders the item beyond it's hit points. Is the cleric S.O.L. for spells then requiring a D.F?

Second question: is a cleric holding up a holy symbol able to make an AOO on said vampire above?

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[frankthedm]

1.Yes,most people consider a sundered holy symbol unusable. BTW Pelor's symbol is a Sun-Face not a cross. Cuthbert has a cross. The Cleric should have use a standard action to hold the vampire at bay.

2. If armed in some other way, yes. if succesfull, the sunder attempt is NOT stopped.

 

[shilsen]

What frankthedm said. Always carry a backup holy symbol or divine focus.

 

[Notmousse]

Of course you should make sure it's your own holy symbol.

I couldn't stop laughing when a player tried to turn with a Nerullian holy symbol taken from a corpse and was smoten by the 'anti-theft' spell stored within it.

 

[Quartz]

Remember the confrontation between Christopher Lee's Dracula and Peter Cushing's van Helsing when the latter improvises a cross with candlesticks? How is that different from using a broken holy symbol?

Actually, how come the vampire can sunder the thing anyway? I thought that the rules were quite clear; isn't a vampire held off by any LG holy symbol?

 

[Glacialis]

Because D&D has one advantage over pop culture movies:

You can't cross two sticks to get a magical effect.

Unless you're a druid.

 

[RangerWickett]

I much prefer the wooden stake crossed on the pump handle of a shotgun in From Dusk 'Til Dawn.

 

[the Jester]

I once gave the pc cleric a nemesis by casting shatter on his holy symbol.

Yes, a broken holy symbol is useless. Yes, sundering triggers an attack of opportunity- unless the vampire has Improved Sunder.

 

[shilsen]

Yes, a broken holy symbol is useless. Yes, sundering triggers an attack of opportunity- unless the vampire has Improved Sunder.

Or the cleric is conveniently holding the symbol in the hand that isn't occupied with his shield

 

[Storyteller01]

Or the cleric is conveniently holding the symbol in the hand that isn't occupied with his shield

Or if the holy symbol is PART of the clerics shield/armor.