Does making Gloves of Shaping out of adamantine have any effect?


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Since a search of the forums didn't turn up anything:

Adamantine allows you to ignore 20 points of hardness when "sundering weapons or attacking objects".

Gloves of Shaping allow you to treat anything with hardness 8 or less like soft clay, or, and this is the relevant bit, treat an object as having "half as much hardness when attempting to damage or reshape them."

Now, my question: if you made a pair of the gloves out of adamantine, would you ignore 20 points of hardness, since "attempting to damage" is logically the same thing as "attacking" objects? If so, would you apply it before or after determining whether the gloves ignore or halve hardness?

And since a wall of force and similar effects have a hardness of 30, would you say that it goes (30/2)-20, in which case it would become 0 and therefore able to be shaped like clay, or (30-20)/2?


You can only make something out of special metal if it is normally made primarily out of metal. The gloves are made of leather so you can't make them out of adamantine. However, you could have a weapon made out of adamantine. So the flow would be as follows:

Object of 40 hardness...
Gloves let you treat it as an object of 20 hardness...
Adamantine weapon lets you ignore up to 20 points of hardness...
Net result: treat object as if it has 0 hardness.

Walls of force aren't objects. So the gloves wouldn't reduce the hardness.

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