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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4277241" data-attributes="member: 62992">Weapons can't be used to demolish solid stone; period. They break rather nastily if you hit a tree with them (I have seen this a few times now) let alone something more solid. Hitting a stone wall with a sledgehammer is not the same as hitting solid stone; the mortar crumbles very easily with any wall whereas the solid stone just throws all the energy back at you and severely damages the obkect attacking it. Also, metal weapons are made of very brittle steel along the edges whilst the "blades" tend to be flexible; hit something hard with them and you would ruin them permanently.Before explosives, some stone materials were virtually IMPOSSIBLE to cut through by hand (for this read so difficult that it was not worth bothering). Therefore most mining was through softer rocks. The rock stone-henge is made out of (sarcen) is SO hard that the only way to dress it was to get a head-sized lump of sarcen in an A frame and just spend all day banging it against the big stone (for MONTHS if not years).I can't see that this is possible for adventurers.I think that there are many occasions, no matter what WoTC would like, where the DM has to adjudicate and overule the rule set where players are trying to take it into places where it breaks down. So only let "mining" happen if you want it in your game; it is NOT realistic, but hey, this is gaming!</blockquote>