does the spell shatter (when targeting a weapon) ignore hardness? most spells ignore damage reduction, do they ignore hardness too?
Nope. Not unless the GM says so anyway. It also only deals half damage if the weapon isn't crystalline or fragile in the first place. It looks like it would just shatter a nonmagical weapon if it was unattended and that it gets a Will save if it is attended. I'm not sure how the nonmagical weapon makes a Will save but that's how I'm reading it. Maybe I need to go eat...
Non-magical weapons don't get saves unless they are wielded (in which case they use the wielder's save).
From the Spell Description in the CRD:
Shatter create a loud, ringing noise that breaks brittle, nonmagical objects; sunders a single solid, nonmagical object; or damage a crystalline creature.
Used as an area attack, shatter destroys nonmagical objects of crystal, glass, ceramic, or percelain. All such objects within a 5-foot radius of the point of origin are smashed into dozens of pieces by the spell. Objects weighing more than 1 pound per your level are not affected, but all other objects of the appropriate composition are shattered.
Alternatively, you can target shatter against a single solid nonmagical object, regardless of composition, weighing up to 10 pounds per caster level. Targeted against a crystalline creature (of any weight), shatter deals 1d6 points of sonic damage per caster level (maximum 10d6), with a Fortitude save for half damage.
So, if the sword is nonmagical (or has its magic suppresed via dispel magic), shatter will sunder that item regardless of hardness or hit points; if it fails a Will save. Note that a nonmagical item only gets a save if it is attended.
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Oh right, I already knew that. Sorry been meaning to post on this for a while, my real question was: once sundered, is it damage or destroyed?
edit: sorry *broken* or destroyed?
I'm pretty sure it's destroyed.
It's sundered so I think the caster can choose to either make it broken with 1 hit point or destroy it.
sweet, just making sure i made the right call: So my player took the trait: heirloom weapon, but she broke my rule: "Don't take stuff out of books not at the table - not fair to my new players who don't yet know enough about the game to study up like a min-maxer"
So I shattered it, don't mess with the DM.
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Ven, you couldn't have, oh I don't know, talked to the payer about choosing another option first?
Sounds to me like you were both behaving immaturely.
Okay, over-reacting. This was all in the open at the table everyone was having a good time. She took it and didn't tell me for 3 levels. So I broke it, I omitted that I let her replace the trait the next time we sat down. Thought it was a funnier story without that.