Artifice Domain Power

[OldManAlexi]

Artificer's Touch wrote:

In addition, you can cause damage to objects and construct creatures by striking them with a melee touch attack. Objects and constructs take 1d6 points of damage +1 for every two cleric levels you possess. This attack bypasses an amount of damage reduction and hardness equal to your cleric level.

If a level 5 Cleric used this power, would it bypass 5 DR and 5 hardness or would you add together the DR and hardness before subtracting 5 from the combined total? I'm guessing the the former but it could go either way.

[MurphysParadox]

DR and hardness are different things, thus you would calculate them differently. You would subtract 5 from each then add the resulting values and subtract it from your damage total.

Say the thing touched has DR 10/good and Hardness 10 and you do 11 damage with the ability. DR would become 5/good and Hardness would become 5. Your total damage would be 11 - 5 (DR) - 5 (Hardness) = 1 total.

If it had 0 DR and 10 Hardness, it would remain 0 DR and become 5 hardness. Damage would be 11 - 0 (DR) - 5 (Hardness) = 6.

[Sangalor]

I second this. However, are there actually any creatures or objects with DR AND hardness?

Although, maybe from summoning, spells or other corner cases. Hmmm... Still wonder...