Jacob Saltband wrote:
I asked in a thread if anyone who was using a whip build ever had thier GM sunder the whip, and this is one of the responses I got.
"I've never had a GM who screwed his players over by abusing sunder.
It's just bad form to destroy player's magical weapons."
So is it wrong to uses combat maneuvers against a PC if said maneuver would destroy a players equipment?
I will equate using Sunder like raising a kid. Imagine the kid is your group of PCs. You as the DM are the parent. An involved parent, one who cares and listens to his/her kid understands them the best. You as the DM know your PCs. You decide if sunder works.
Heck if you leave enough hints that they will face something or someone who is known for such maneuvers they should prepare. Drop a hint by hearing a name Sir Wrecksyoursword, or by rumor or story about how many hilts hes collected from breaking heros blades, then the PCs will know what they are facing and maybe they'll leave their nice shiny sword at home and bring a board with a nail in it, or my personal favorite, a sack of rusty doorknobs. Go ahead and sunder the heck out of that! Maybe they devise away to take his sword away first? Grease spell on the weapon is always nice.
Sir Wrecksyoursword dropped his blade, PCs drop their boards and sacks of doorknobs and bring out the nice shiny blades. Maybe they like the sack of rusty doorknobs so much they make it +1. New favorite weapon!
Maybe they get so concerned over their gear they avoid that NPC completely. I dunno. You know your group best, only you can decide if it will work and how.