Hardness of Silkweave

[Oyabun_Kyuubi]

So I am currently making a character in Pathfinder that wears a Spider-silk Bodysuit

Looking in The special materials section the closest thing I can find that matches the description of Spider-silk is Silkweave

Unfortunately in both there and Damaging and breaking objects there is nothing stating a Hardness of Silkweave armors or things made of Alchemically treated spider silk.

Can someone help please and thank you.

[Zarius]

I'd fall back to the hardness/HP of leather or cloth. There's a 3pp (Silk, Aranea) that has stats, though... 5 HP per inch, 0 hardness. Which is fair, since it's 2.5x the HP of cloth, but easier to damage than leather.

[Dark Midian]

The trouble though is that it specifically says that silkweave is super durable. I would also recommend going with the rules for leather for the hardness and HP.

[Zarius]

Well, 5hp an inch (or part there of) is still pretty damn durable for what amounts to reinforced cloth, when you consider that a) cloth is 2 per inch and the item I referenced amounts to kevlar.

[graystone]

Dark Midian wrote:

The trouble though is that it specifically says that silkweave is super durable. I would also recommend going with the rules for leather for the hardness and HP.

I'd go a bit further than that once you take into account the price of the armor [850gp]: for me that puts it up there with Darkleaf Cloth [750gp + armor cost] and that's 20 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 10. Note that the description of darkleaf says it's "tough as cured hide", and hide has 5hp/inch and 2 hardness so the number are greatly skewed towards the special materials.

[Isabelle Lee]

Hmm...

[Oyabun_Kyuubi]

I kinda am leaning towards the darkleaf cloth or leather for hardness a bit as well.

The 850 Gp price and the fact that it is masterwork makes me think that Chemically treated Giant spider silk would be a bit more durable than 0 15/15

I'm just unsure about it because there is also Spider silk rope in the adventuring gear that doesn't say a hardness but does say its 6 hp which is 1.5X what normal silk ropes are for 10X the gp cost

[Oyabun_Kyuubi]

So I ruled in my game that its a Hardness of 10 since its alchemically treated. I would be curious to find out what the Raw or official hardness would be still though.

[graystone]

Oyabun_Kyuubi wrote:

So I ruled in my game that its a Hardness of 10 since its alchemically treated. I would be curious to find out what the Raw or official hardness would be still though.

You're unlikely to get 'official' as it's from a softback book and it'd be a miracle to get a FAQ for one of those. Your best bet is to go to one of the 'ask a dev' threads and post the question there. James Jacobs‎ and Mark Seifter are the ones I can think of off hand. It isn't going to be 'official' but it's most likely as close as you'll get.

Ask Mark Seifter
Ask James Jacobs

[Oyabun_Kyuubi]

Will do Gray Thank ye :D