#DND SHATTER SPELL VS CONSTRUCTS HOW TO#
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Most things 'Tower' size are many objects put together. You can take that to mean any size, or you can use the examples to judge the intent. It's not the squad killer that 1e heat metal was.ġ. You just need to find special wood or an enchantment that prevents the spear head from damaging the haft. This idea, however, might be the starting point for an enchanted druidic based spear whose head glows red-hot. It would be garbage after the fight, certainly. The wooden parts will burst into flame, and the weapon would be useless after three rounds.

It would be an interesting vulnerability or source of conflict with a druid circle.Ĥ) Sure, with similar damage. I would consider half damage against a warforged. I don't think that would apply to the iron cobra. A building would be far too massive.Ģ) Maybe, but the damage is based on hot metal frying the flesh of the creature holding it. I think for warp wood I have it that a 4th level spell would effectively destroy a wagon. If someone wanted to upcast to affect a larger target instead or more damage I would consider it. Can you heat metal the end of a polearm or spear and have it do extra damage while safely holding the non-metal haft?ġ) A suit of armor.

#DND SHATTER SPELL VS CONSTRUCTS PC#

But I have concerns for the robot PC and the NPC robots that I might not be seeing a lot of relevant implications yet.Ī fourth question just came to mind as well. Normally I think D&D has had a line of creatures are not objects so my first instinct is no but 5e seems fairly inexact on the subject and having a double edged sword of an Iron Cobra taking damage but inflicting more as well was fun and I am trying to be more of a 'yes and' style of DM and went with it.

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I had a little discussion about this when it came up then made some rulings as the DM (medium size objects or a five foot square area max, yes they can be subject to the spell, and they will inflict the full same damage on physical hot strikes) but said I would think on it a little more because these kinds of things affected both monsters and the PC in our group and robots were a big campaign theme (I am running a 5e conversion of the Pathfinder 1e Iron Gods adventure path).

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 2nd. If it doesn't drop the object, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the start of your next turn.Īt Higher Levels. If a creature is holding or wearing the object and takes the damage from it, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or drop the object if it can. Until the spell ends, you can use a bonus action on each of your subsequent turns to cause this damage again. Any creature in physical contact with the object takes 2d8 fire damage when you cast the spell. Any damage that fails to meet or exceed the object’s damage threshold is considered superficial and doesn’t reduce the object’s hit points.So a player in tonight's game had heat metal as a spell and a couple questions came up about its use.ġ How big an item can you heat with it (they came upon a metal tower they wanted to destroy).Ģ Are metal creatures like an Iron Cobra or a manufactured metal warforged PC (as one of my Players is playing) objects even though they are creatures?ģ If something like an Iron Cobra or the PC is red hot from the spell, does the creature also do damage on its physical attacks using the red hot metal? How much?Ĭomponents: V, S, M (a piece of iron and a flame)Ĭhoose a manufactured metal object, such as a metal weapon or a suit of heavy or medium metal armor, that you can see within range. Medium (barrel, chandelier).4(1d8).18(4d8)Īs a DM you might also consider adding a Damage Threshold to a suit of armor, although that would not matter much against a shatter spell.Īn object with a damage threshold has immunity to all damage unless it takes an amount of damage from a single Attack or effect equal to or greater than its damage threshold, in which case it takes damage as normal. You can see that the appropriate object hit points for a medium sized resilient object is 18 or roll 4d8. While this would not change the correct answer above you still can not damage attended or worn objects, we can add in some detail now about PC / object interaction.

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Since this was posted back in September of 2014, 5e has released rules on how to interact with objects. An unattended suit of full plate mail would have 18(4d8) hp and an AC of 19. As stated elsewhere worn objects can't be targeted.

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