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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3974865" data-attributes="member: 13966">Anyone could do it with Power Attack after gaining, like, a +10 base attack bonus.  Someone using a two-handed weapon can probably do it at level 1, with just a bit more time.A half-orc monk with 20 Strength can do it at level 1 with just a lot of persistance in punching the cell bars (1d6+5 damage, will deal 11 damage once in a while, getting 1 point in past the hardness, so he could eventually break it down).And an adamantine set of bars would not be likely until upper levels.  A human warblade 3 with 18 Strength, Mountain Hammer, and Power Attack could punch at bars for 1d3+2d6+4+3 damage....so an average of 16 damage or so, which don't even dent adamantine bars (hardness 20).  The maximum he could do would be 22 damage, which would get in 2 points beyond hardness, and it would take quite a while to break......Of course, all this means is, in a setting with martial adepts, people would just know that you don't just throw people with good fighting skills into a jail cell without binding their hands.  Stone Dragon is the one discipline shared by all three martial adept classes, and Mountain Hammer is a low-level maneuver, so it would be quite well known.I'd suggest just assuming that whatever NPC threw the PC into jail was being foolish and forgetting the fact that many skilled warriors can break free if allowed free use of their hands.  Adamantine shackles would do more good than adamantine prison bars, and plain old iron manacles should suffice for keeping the average martial adept as helpless as a wizard in the same situation.A quick edit cuz I thought it should be mentioned: with a warhammer, a human barbarian with 18 Strength and Power Attack could deal 1d8+6+6 damage, or 1d8+9+6 damage raging.  Enough to pound his way through iron bars a bit faster than the warblade could unarmed (he'd just need that warhammer or something like it to compensate for not having the Mountain Hammer maneuver).  And without bruising his hands so much.Sure, the martial adepts can do somewhat better unarmed than other warriors, but not better than a monk (who'd batter down his obstacle unarmed with a rapid series of flurries).</blockquote>

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