Those same rules also state that the DM is in his or her right to change the damage dealt due to any tyoe of attack based on particular vulnaribilities. The example they give is the rope somebody is trying to cut with a mace, but the same would go for energy attacks. Metal might hardly be affected by alchemist fire, but dry wood certainly is. Even if the hardness dictates that the table would not start burning (which is the fire burns for only 1 round is not strange, but prolonged exposure definitely will lit the table).
Is hardness really this hard?
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Madfox said:
Ah! So, if the PC's in question (not that I'm, like, one of them or anything) had used, say, Dire Greatswords of Metal Cutting (or, say, Light Sabres), they would have left the floor littered with busted metal pieces instead of retreating with their tails between their legs (and their, again, completely hypothetical magical glaives on the floor).
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Most objects take only half damage from energy, but specific exceptions are made. For instance, sonic energy usually ignores hardness. Objects take less cold damage in general. Acid does 3/4 damage to metal (I think). Fire should ignore the hardness of a wooden object, which should take full damage from fire.
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