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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1262438" data-attributes="member: 892">And magic weapons don't have different stats with regards to weapons of lesser plusses.  They are just immune to weapons of lesser plusses, like dragons are immune to fire.The differences in calculating hardness and hit points on p.217 and 222 of the DMG is a separate matter.  I'd say use the p.222 one for weapons only and the p.217 one for shields only, but that is just me.  I could agree with an official ruling going either way on how to calculate hardness and hp, but in either case, as it is written a +3 weapon or +3 shield cannot ever be harmed by a +2 weapon, no matter how one calculates a +3 weapon's or +3 shield's hardness and hit points vs. a +4 weapon.  See how simple it becomes?  If a weapon is not immune, it takes damage out of its one and only pool of hp. If a weapon is immune because it is being hit by an inferior weapon, it takes no damage at all.  How one calculates the one and only pool of hp is separate from whether or not a weapon takes damage at all from inferior weapons.</blockquote>