Are there official rules for bending the bars of a cage to, say for instance, free a captive animal? Would it matter if the bars were of some metal other than iron? Would it matter if the animal was large-sized instead of medium? How long would this whole bar-bending process take (I'm guessing it'd increase as the animal in question swells in size)?
I assume breaking the bars with some weapon would be a sunder attempt. But would it require multiple sunder attempts if, say, for example, a total of four bars needed to be sundered in order to create a space big enough for said animal to squeeze through?
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No sunder attempt required unless the cage is somehow being wielded.
Either
1 - Do damage to the bars until they are destoryed. You do have to deal with the hardness of the metal and its HP. (vary by how thick the bars are)
2 - Make a strength check to bend/break the bars. The DC of which would vary with how thick the bars are and what they're made of. I'd probably make it a notch or three above whatever animal it was holding could ever hope to do. (Otherwise it wouldn't be a very good cage.)
yeah man it's on the strength chart, page 14 of the PHB with the winged helmet cavalry guy. For example, if you have an 18(76) strength then your bend bars/lift gates is 30%.
Wrong rpg, my good sir. Pathfinder doesn't have that. Instead, we have this table which says bending iron bars is a DC 24 Str check. If the bars were made of something else, the GM can up the DC as they see fit.
I believe a successful bend bars/lift gates check resulted in bending the bars 1 inch or lifting the gate 1 foot.