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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1295432" data-attributes="member: 1656">Okay.  In 3.5:The DMG states that each plus adds 1 to hardness and hit points.The PHB states that each plus adds 2 to hardness and 10 to hit points.These are obviously contradictory, and cannot both be right.The DMG states that a magic weapon cannot be damaged by a weapon of lesser enhancement.  The PHB is silent on the matter.There is no contradiction, and thus no need to figure out precedence.  As written, magic weapons are immune to non-magical weapons.However:Customer Service and the Sage have both stated that the entire section in the DMG is erroneous, and an artefact of the revision; that section is the 3E rules, and should not appear in the 3.5 DMG.  According to this, the hardness and hit points in the PHB is accurate, and the rule about immunity to lesser weapons is gone in 3.5.Since the DMG has not yet been officially errata'd, this is at present essentially hearsay, and the rules as written still provide for immunity to lesser weapons.It's up to you as DM to decide what to do <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Hyp.</blockquote>