Buildings and Size Categories


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Over on the srd on their siege engine page, they mention near the bottom buildings and their hit points in relation to their sizes. My question is, just what is a large building? Is it your normal 2x2 squares?

Are size categories the same for buildings, and therefore all things, as they are for creatures?


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Buildings

Buildings are sizable structures with many hit points and very poor ACs (a Large building is AC 4, a Huge building is AC 3, and a Gargantuan or larger building is AC 0). When a building is reduced to half its hit points, it is broken—it still stands, but only partially. It can be easily entered, and for all intents and purposes it has been breached. Reducing a building to 0 hit points completely destroys that building. Creatures inside the building suffer the effects of a cave-in.

All these building statistics assume that the structure’s inside is somewhat hollow but sturdily built, with enough space for its occupants to walk around inside. Flimsy buildings have half the hit points of the buildings detailed in Table: Buildings. Buildings can be magically treated, like dungeon walls and doors can. Doing so doubles their hardness and hit points. Magically treating a building costs 5,000 gp for a Large building, 10,000 gp for a Huge building, 20,000 gp for a Gargantuan building, and 40,000 gp for a Colossal building. A spellcaster with the Craft Magic Arms and Armor feat can magically treat buildings.

For larger buildings, put together multiple buildings of these sizes and add the hit points together.

Seems to be what they are saying

A Large wood building would be a 10' cube building, have a AC of 4, hardness of 5 and 120hp.
A gargantuan stone building would be a 20' wide, 20' long, 2 story building, have a AC of 0, hardness of 8 and 1600hp.
--So remember to cast 'Possess Object' on your stone house and attack people.


Thanks. I'll have to remember that possess object idea...

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