A141: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/conditionSummary.htm#abilityDrained
A character with Strength 0 falls to the ground and is helpless. A character with Dexterity 0 is paralyzed. A character with Constitution 0 is dead. A character with Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma 0 is unconscious.
Hmm. I wonder if it's just for Shackled City then. The Vanishing deals CHA damage, and when you hit 0 you die.
on a semi-related side note -- I've always liked the Frost Dragon from Dragonlance, who's breath weapon drains CHA, and if your CHA is reduced to 0, not only do you die, the very memory of you vanishes from everyone who ever new you (which is certainly a way to make permanent death a real threat for a high-level PC).
Q149need some clarification on object hardness:
when you attempt to sunder something (e.g., a weapon), do the hardness of the 2 weapons cancel 1-for-1?
For example:
if I use a quarterstaff (hardness 8) to attempt to sunder a steel sword (hardness 10), does the sword ignore the first 2 points of damage, or the first 10 (due to the quarterstaff having the lower hardness)?
I think that I may be having some 3.0 confusion.