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Raging Hobbit wrote:

I am trying to craft a shield of adamantine. I want to use this shield as both a shield and a weapon. How does that work with the damage reduction and the ability to bypass hardness for sundering. Would an adamanitine shield even provide damage reduction? The text says it automatically is masterwork. Do I have to pay the adamantine price twice to get both abilities (3,000+5,000).

Adamantine damage reduction quality only applies to ARMOR, not shield. However, using it as a bashing weapon would act as a bludgenoning adamantine weapon and bypass damage reduction on say, a golem.

I cant understand why a Shield which is a piece of Armour and counts towards Armour class should not have damage reduction. Surely it should have but only to attacks coming from the shielded side and the front.

My thoughts would be DR is dependent on the size of the shield - a Large shield is thicker than a small shield, and should be classed as Light Armour DR - small shield, Med Armour - Large Shield, and if you manage to carry a Tower shield - Heavy.
The cost should be +3000, +6000, +9000