Brawler Dwarf: Reduce Hardness?

[kirerellim]

"Reduce the hardness of any object made from clay, stone, or metal by 1 whenever the object is struck by the brawler’s unarmed strike (minimum 0)."

This is the favored class bonus of dwarves for brawlers. I'm not sure if this means you ignore 1 point per level (so at level 10, treat something with 10 hardness as 0) or if you actually damage/reduce the hardness with every blow (first hit is at full 10 hardness, but after that hit its 0). Anyone able to shed light on this?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/hybrid-classes/brawler#TOC-Favored-Class-Bo nuses

[Cellion]

Presumably its the first. If it were the second option, you could reduce the hardness of almost everything down to 0 just by punching it enough, even if you only had one point of the FCB. This seems out of line for what FCBs usually provide.

[kirerellim]

That was my thought but the phrasing seemed to indicate otherwise so I figured I'd get a few second opinions lol thanks for the confirmation. Still a potent ability for a gm's playerbane sundermaster

[DrakeRoberts]

I had previously posed this question and consensus seemed to land strongly on the first, iirc.

[kirerellim]

Really? Do you happen to have a link for that?

[Java Man]

Got to the rules forum, search for dwarf brawler.

[Claxon]

It's definitely treating the hardness (for your attacks) as though it were reduced by the number of times you had taken that favored class bonus.

It does not permanently reduce the hardness of an object, though I can understand when reading the ability how you could reach that conclusion.