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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5423947" data-attributes="member: 58197">Or, more likely, the DM institutes a house rule along the lines of, "No, you can't tunnel through stone and knock down walls with a sword. Deal with it."I think my approach would be to have two opposing attributes: Hardness and shatter. To damage an object, you need to attack it with something whose shatter value equals or exceeds the object's hardness. If you do, you deal full damage and can break the object if you hit it enough. Otherwise, your implement is simply not up to the job.A "destructible" object would have hardness 0; you can break it with anything. Solid wood might have hardness 1, stone would have hardness 2, iron would have hardness 3, and adamantine would have hardness 4. On the other side of the ledger, most weapons and spells would have shatter 0. Axes, maces, fire, and maybe thunder have shatter 1. For shatter 2+, you mostly need acid, siege engines, mining gear, or disintegrate-type magic.I think this would be easier to remember than 3E-style hardness, and would address the problem of increasing PC damage output, while at the same time providing a concise way of saying, "This magic item/spell/whatever is extra good at breaking stuff."</blockquote>