Adamantine vs Hardness of 20+

[CWheezy]

Quote:

Weapons Weapons fashioned from adamantine have a natural ability to bypass hardness when sundering weapons or attacking objects, ignoring hardness less than 20.

If I have an object with a hardness of 20 or more, does sundering with adamantine have any effect?

[Jiggy]

"Ignore hardness less than 20."

Is the object's hardness less than 20?

If so, ignore it. If not, don't.

[CWheezy]

So against a wall of force it would have no effect?

[Cao Phen]

Yes, simple as that.

[Scavion]

Super simple stuff.

[Slime]

CWheezy wrote:

So against a wall of force it would have no effect?

No, it has "normal" effect i.e.: "... a wall of force has hardness 30 and a number of hit points equal to 20 per caster level".

So you can chip threw it with attacks dealing more than 30 of damage each, dividing that reduced (-30) damage by 2 and taking it away from the total.

No instant busts but power attack & cie can help.

Edit: Sorry, you don't divide by 2 it's not energy damage.

[James Risner]

CWheezy wrote:

So against a wall of force it would have no effect?

The Adamantine "ignore" would have no effect.

If you still deal damage in excess of the Hardness you would apply Wall of Force hardness and any excess damage would apply to the wall.

[Bizbag]

Adamantine doesn't "subtract 20 hardness", so to speak, it's an all-or-nothing threshold.

[Nefreet]

^ this is one of the most common misconceptions I encounter in PFS regarding Adamantine as well.

[Cao Phen]

If need be, we can do an example:

Adamantine Weapon deals 50 damage vs an item (hardness 10) - 50 damage goes through.

Adamantine Weapon deals 50 damage vs Wall of Force (hardness 30) - 20 damage goes through.