I've just starting playing a fighter and I'm looking at the different options available.
Obviously Sunder is on the list, but there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of advice on it.
Obviously, weapons and armour are hard targets in that they have high hardness, lots of hit points, scale as you increase in level as magic bonuses make them harder to sunder, whilst breaking them doesn't seem to deliver a massive de-buff but destroying them also destroys the treasure.
The description says that you can sunder anything worn or carried so there seem to be a lot of good targets available that don't scale, are quite soft and won't hurt the treasure split.
So here are the obvious sunder targets:
1. Component pouches. 5gp, so won't hurt the treasure split. My guess is that it's leather, so 2 hardness and 5hp. Destroying it should be fairly easy and would be a fairly major debuff to any spell caster. Can't do this on characters with Eschew materials of course, but a look at the NPC codex, showed not one single Wizard, Druid, Bard or Cleric with that feat, so this isn't so much an opportunity as an invitation.
2. Holy symbol. Not that expensive in the general run of things, so you aren't really destroying treasure. One of the few items where it seems to get easier to destroy as you face higher level characters because they use softer metals. Get rid of this, and you get rid of the Divine focus and stop channelling, so again a major de-buff.
3. Familiar satchel. This should be fairly easily identifiable with a perception check. Nice of the wizard to place his familiar in such an easy to kill place. The description says armoured, but doesn't go into detail. I'm guessing leather. Would damaging the satchel injure the familiar? Are you attacking the familiars CMD or the Wizards? Does the follow through of damage from a greater sunder go to the familiar, the wizard or both?
4. Quivers. We don't want to destroy the bow. But destroy the quiver and the archer will have trouble using it. An archer without arrows is a man with stick right?
So the question is, what am I missing? Please can you add other nice targets for a sunder in this thread?
