Sage advice and some recent topics

[James McMurray]

This month's Sage Advice covers many topics that hae been discussed recently. It makes me wonder if Skip comes and reads these boards frequently.

Sunder - This is oficially not limited to a standard action.
Sunder - The statement referring to needing an equal or higher enhncement bonus to sunder a weapon or shield is being erratted away. The actual value for hardness and hit points is +2/+10 per pint of enhancement bonus.
Mithral / Adamantium Shields - These cost the same as light armor. Shields of adamantium don't grant DR.
Permanency - The affected spells are gone when Dispelled, not merely suppressed.

Just figured folks might be interested.

 

[MichaelH]

Thanks James. I read the Sunder questions with interest. You can sunder a magical weapon with a normal weapon, it just is unlikely due to the increased amount of hardness and hit points of the magical weapon. More reason to fear giants.

 

[Endur]

never mind.

 

[James McMurray]

Why doesn't it make sense? The permaneny sell says that it changes the spell's duration to permanent. A spell whose duration is permanent goes away when dispelled.

 

[Endur]

Actually, I misunderstood you.

I knew the spells were gone when dispelled, not suppressed as per magic items. I thought you were implying that the Sage had changed the rule somehow to make it easier to dispell spells.

Why doesn't it make sense? The permaneny sell says that it changes the spell's duration to permanent. A spell whose duration is permanent goes away when dispelled.

 

[Artoomis]

This month's Sage Advice covers many topics that hae been discussed recently. It makes me wonder if Skip comes and reads these boards frequently.

Sunder - The statement referring to needing an equal or higher enhncement bonus to sunder a weapon or shield is being erratted away. The actual value for hardness and hit points is +2/+10 per pint of enhancement bonus.

That's a clarification that was really needed. How "official" is it, I wonder? Will it be in errata? Or is it only opinion?

 

[James McMurray]

Sage Advice is 100% official. He also mentiond that the DMG eratta will contain fixes to these problems.

 

[Artoomis]

Sage Advice is 100% official. He also mentiond that the DMG eratta will contain fixes to these problems.

100% official? Sort of. Sometimes it's just advice. I do not know how "official" it is any more. Some time ago, WotC made it clear that only errata was "offical," but that seems to have been expanded to include the published FAQs.

Now, if it is to be errta, that's great.

 

[James McMurray]

The cover of Dragon Magazine says "100% Official". The header of the Sage Advice column says (in big bold letters) "Official Answers".

People are of course free to disregard Skip when they disagree with him, but his answers have been official for at least 6 months now (the oldest issue in front of me is 311, and it also bears the official tags).

 

[Hypersmurf]

Sunder - This is oficially not limited to a standard action.

So... he claims that the reason that Sunder appears in the "Standard Actions" section of the Table of Action Types is because it provokes an AoO, so it needs its own entry - have I got that right?

-Hyp.