Saving Throws for Items
When a character's body is thrown, broken or subjected to a wide range of natural and magical attacks, the character's body is not the only thing that is affected. Equipment can be damaged or incinerated, clothes can be made unwearable, substances can be rendered inert or useless and even armour can be destroyed. Therefore, when a character is subjected to any of the attacks listed below, the objects worn and carried by the character must also make a saving throw or else be ruined.
| Item material |
Acid | Crushing blow |
Disintegrate | Electricity | Fall | Fireball | Fire (magical) |
Fire (normal) |
Frost | Lightning | Normal blow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bone or ivory |
11 | 16 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| book or leather |
10 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 1 |
| ceramic or pottery |
4 | 18 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| cloth | 12 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 18 | 1 |
| crystal or vial |
6 | 19 | 14 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 5 |
| gem or pebble |
3 | 17 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 2 |
| glass | 5 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 1 |
| liquid | 15 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 15 |
| metal (hard) |
7 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| metal (soft) |
13 | 14 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| mirror | 12 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 1 |
| parchment or paper |
16 | 11 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 20 | 1 |
| wood or rope (thin) |
9 | 13 | 6 | 20 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| wood or rope (thick) |
8 | 10 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
Magical items receive a minimum +1 save against these attacks, with a better bonus if the item is an armour or weapon whose modifier is higher. This also applies to items like bracers, a cloak or a ring of protection. Both a cloak or a ring of protection will grant a +1 modifier to all other objects carried by the person as well. If the magical item is specifically designed to resist the attack form (such as a ring of fire resistance vs. fire of any kind), then the save bonus is +5.
Items that are protected by some outer covering or container need not make save if the covering or container survives. For example, a scroll in a scrollcase, or a spellbook inside a box, are safe from save if the scrollcase or the box succeed in their rolls. A character's doublet need not save if a layer or outer armour or the covering hauberk survive.
