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quiet1mi
2008-07-28, 10:30 AM
I was reading the Complete psionic and noticed the destruction mantle

it says that you treat objects as if they have half their hardness when sundering. you may expend your psionic focus to lower the hardness by 4...

so...


do I lower the hardness by four then divide the remaining hardness in half

do I divide the hardness by two and then lower it by four


the mantle descriptions are on pg12 and on pg 68

its_all_ogre
2008-07-28, 11:30 AM
lower and then divide.
if you had a -4 to damage and did half damage wouldn't you do it this way?

Lord Lorac Silvanos
2008-07-28, 11:38 AM
If no order of operation is specified (I have not checked the relevant pages) you use the most beneficial for the user of the effect.

In this case it is most beneficial to first divide the hardness by two and then subtract four.

quiet1mi
2008-07-28, 01:09 PM
cool...

now I can make a NPC for the players that sunders doors instead of picking the locks to replace the open locks npc that I killed last week...