Shatter spell vs. armor

[ogre]

Question about the Shatter spell. What are the limitations here? Can you shatter a suit of armor someone is wearing? The pertinant info of the spell: Alternatively, you can target shatter against a single solid object, regardless of composition, weighing up to 10 pounds per caster level. Does it mean solid as oppopsed to liquid or gas? Or solid as in a block of something, not pieces of leather and steel sewn together?
Any advice?

 

[shilsen]

Question about the Shatter spell. What are the limitations here?

Mainly the weight of the targeted object and that it has to be nonmagical.

Can you shatter a suit of armor someone is wearing?

Certainly. If it is nonmagical and falls under the weight limit, then the wearer has to make a Will save or lose it.

The pertinant info of the spell: Alternatively, you can target shatter against a single solid object, regardless of composition, weighing up to 10 pounds per caster level. Does it mean solid as oppopsed to liquid or gas?

By my reading, yes.

Or solid as in a block of something, not pieces of leather and steel sewn together?

See above.

Any advice?

Talk to your DM about how he views it. And if you're the DM, make a decision and tell your players about it.

 

[ogre]

Ahh ok, thanks for the advice. I'm the player in this case, a sundering eldritch knight, so I just wanted to make sure of the spell's specifics.

 

[frankthedm]

The pertinant info of the spell: Alternatively, you can target shatter against a single solid object, regardless of composition, weighing up to 10 pounds per caster level. Does it mean solid as oppopsed to liquid or gas?

In my opinion, an object includes

One chain link
a suit of chain mail
a rope
A mortared wall
an unmortared brick
Cloths held together by thread stiches
A weapon

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

In my opinion, an object includes

One chain link
a suit of chain mail
a rope
A mortared wall
an unmortared brick
Cloths held together by thread stiches
A weapon

Right. I think it's important to point out that an object may itself be composed of smaller objects. So you could shatter an entire chain, or a single link in the chain. Not two links, interestingly. That would take two spells.