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Chess Pwn wrote:

So if someone can answer this from the thing that'd be awesome.

I raise a wooden shield hardness 3 and use it to block.
The attacker rolls 6 for his damage.
Is my shield destroyed or did it only take the 3 damage it blocked which causes 1 dent?

It takes 2 dents and becomes broken

With the clarification on hardness in the original post and how Shield Block is written (as my only two sources on this subject) I would be inclined the believe otherwise.

"Your shield prevents you from taking an amount of damage up to its hardness -- the shield takes this damage instead, possibly becoming dented or broken."

That reads to me that it would prevent damage up to its hardness and then take the damage it prevented, thereby possibly causing a dent (possibly because the damage could be less than the hardness, and not cause a dent).

So I see it as the following:

- You are about to take 6 damage.
- You use Shield Block. You have a shield with 3 hardness.
- Shield block prevents you from taking 3 damage and takes this damage instead.
- You take 3 damage and your shield takes 3 damage, causing 1 dent.

Another counter argument is that if the attack were to deal 6 damage and your shield prevents 3 of it from reaching you while the shield itself takes 6 damage, wouldn't that be a total damage dealt of 9 (3 to you, 6 to shield)? Wouldn't that be inflating the actual damage?

Probably not the best idea to work on homebrew since anything is possibly up for change so you'll probably have to redo it again later. If I recall correctly, Paizo said they were going to do another pass on Ancestries, especially with heritage feats.

Also no telling if your players will stick with the playtest, so that would be some amount of work wasted if they don't.

Back to the subject at hand though, for the minimal amount of work, I would just refluff/flavor an already existing ancestry to meet my needs.