This is my first post and likely to be a long one. Thank you in advance for your patience and help.
This is the situation. We just started the City of the Spider Queen module. My PC was in a crypt fending off 3 vampires while the party sorceror was outside lobbing fireballs inside or at the crypt. Eventually the crypt collapses nearly killing me and breaking my great sword. I argued several points against the breaking of the sword.
1. My sword has a +1 enhancement bonus and should not take damage from anything without at least a +1 bonus.
He ruled that the force of the fireball increased the damage, essentially ruling that the crypt exploded and the stones were propelled in every direction, not simply falling on me, and the force was strong enough to similate an enhancement bonus.
I countered with the fact that the fireball spell specifically states that it creates almost no force.
2. Even disregarding the enhancement bonus, the stones should not have been able to defeat the hardness of my sword as they were falling only 20 feet. The one's less than 200 pounds should have done a d6 damage and been innefectual. The one's greater than 200 pounds should have done 2d6 and only done any damage if they rolled max damage. As there can only be a limited amount of stones in excess of 200 pounds directly over my head, and the odds of rolling maximum damage on all of them, my sword should be at worst scratched.
He said that from the force of the fireball stones were propelled in all directions and eventually wore down the hardness and HP of the sword, breaking it.
3. I felt that I should have gotten a save. We rolled (In fact he let me roll) on all of my items to see which were affected. My issue is that he felt that affected meant automatically destroyed.
He ruled that saves for magic items are for spell affects and that since this was impact damage like ice storm there is no save.
I would like to know what you think, I've been lurking for a month or two and have learned a lot. I'd also like to point out that I'm not normally a rules lawyer, but loosing my primary weapon in the first encounter of this module is going to really hurt. I'm going to go with his ruling of course, but he's open to discussion and any help you can give me would be appreciated.
Star
This is the situation. We just started the City of the Spider Queen module. My PC was in a crypt fending off 3 vampires while the party sorceror was outside lobbing fireballs inside or at the crypt. Eventually the crypt collapses nearly killing me and breaking my great sword. I argued several points against the breaking of the sword.
1. My sword has a +1 enhancement bonus and should not take damage from anything without at least a +1 bonus.
He ruled that the force of the fireball increased the damage, essentially ruling that the crypt exploded and the stones were propelled in every direction, not simply falling on me, and the force was strong enough to similate an enhancement bonus.
I countered with the fact that the fireball spell specifically states that it creates almost no force.
2. Even disregarding the enhancement bonus, the stones should not have been able to defeat the hardness of my sword as they were falling only 20 feet. The one's less than 200 pounds should have done a d6 damage and been innefectual. The one's greater than 200 pounds should have done 2d6 and only done any damage if they rolled max damage. As there can only be a limited amount of stones in excess of 200 pounds directly over my head, and the odds of rolling maximum damage on all of them, my sword should be at worst scratched.
He said that from the force of the fireball stones were propelled in all directions and eventually wore down the hardness and HP of the sword, breaking it.
3. I felt that I should have gotten a save. We rolled (In fact he let me roll) on all of my items to see which were affected. My issue is that he felt that affected meant automatically destroyed.
He ruled that saves for magic items are for spell affects and that since this was impact damage like ice storm there is no save.
I would like to know what you think, I've been lurking for a month or two and have learned a lot. I'd also like to point out that I'm not normally a rules lawyer, but loosing my primary weapon in the first encounter of this module is going to really hurt. I'm going to go with his ruling of course, but he's open to discussion and any help you can give me would be appreciated.
Star