Questions tagged [damage-resistance]
For questions about damage resistance, the mechanic in RPG systems that usually represents an ability to shrug off or ignore damage of certain types and amounts.
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In Lancer, does Resistance to Heat practically apply to Heat taken from the Overkill tag?
To be more specific, is each activation of the Overkill tag a distinct instance of taking 1 Heat - and therefore having resistance to it does nothing because you can't divide 1 by half - or is all the ...
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If you wild shape as a druid after raging, do you keep resistances? [duplicate]
If a level 3 bear totem barbarian rages, then wild shapes (with druid levels), do they keep the resistances gained from raging?
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Does a Battlerager Grapple count as an attack for the purposes of damage resistance/immunities?
Battlerager Armor SCAG p121
When you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use
spiked armor as a weapon.
While you are wearing spiked armor and are raging, you can use a bonus
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Can Weakness to a trait trigger multiple times in a single hit?
When resisting damage, you apply the resistance to each applicable "instance of damage" (damage type) separately. Does the same also apply to weaknesses? If you attack an enemy who is weak ...
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If there are multiple resistances that could apply to an instance of damage, how do they stack?
Suppose I have the following stats:
5 Fire Resistance (Charm of Fire Resistance)
3 Resistance to persistent damage (Aeon Stone: Preserving)
2 Resistance to magical attacks from Fiends (Warding Tattoo:...
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What creatures/magic items offer resistance or immunity to nonmagical damage?
In 5e, I'd like to know the ways in which a creature can have immunity to all types of nonmagical damage, either through a stat block or a magic item. Specifically, I'm looking for a complete list ...
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Replacing one of multiple instances of innate damage resistance in 5e? [closed]
Since damage resistance doesn't stack in D&D 5e, is there a consistent ruling or general consensus for replacing one damage resistance with another in the event that multiple instances of the same ...
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Optimizing Animate Objects spell against nonmagical damage immunities
Suppose I am a Wizard who likes to cast Animate Objects in combat. At my present level, I am likely to encounter foes with resistance or immunity to nonmagical physical damage. As detailed in this ...
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If a Goliath is hit by an attack, they have resistance to its damage type, and they also use Stone's Endurance, in what order is the damage reduced?
Let's suppose we have a raging Goliath Barbarian. They are hit by an attack that deals 36 slashing damage, and then, as a reaction, they use Stone's Endurance. Since they are raging, they have ...
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Risky Surgery and resistance to slashing damage
Is taking the slashing damage necessary to get the benefit of Risky Surgery? If the target's resistance1 to slashing completely blocks the damage, is it still a critical success?
like a Cosmos Oracle
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How can I deal positive damage to non-undead?
The Stone-Breasted Owl is an incorporeal beast (and spirit), has resistance 5 to all damage, except for force, ghost touch and positive.
Each spell I found that deals positive damage only does so to ...
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Does a Dragonborn Dragon Magic Sorcerer pierce their own damage resistance when taking damage from Nusemnee's Atonement?
An oft discussed optimization trick in the 4th edition era was the use of Nusemnee's Atonement on a Dragonborn Dragon Magic Sorcerer in order to recharge your breath weapon with the use of the Ancient ...
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How do Warding Bond and the Interception fighting style interact? [duplicate]
So this interaction was with the Artificer Battle Smith in mind.
For Warding Bond:
While the target is within 60 feet of you, it gains a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws, and it has resistance to all ...
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Does Bigby's Hand do magical damage?
The Bigby's Hand spell, also called Arcane Hand, can do force damage by striking, and bludgeoning damage by crushing.
Is that damage magical? I'm unsure.
On one hand, if we assume that the spell ...
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What is the damage type of bleed damage?
Bleed Damage (CRB p452)
Weaknesses and resistances to physical damage apply.
So if I have 1d4 bleed damage, and cast Stoneskin on myself, the bleeding stops. But there are 3 subcategories of ...
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How to handle a psychic damage roll
I’m playing a D&D solo adventure called "To Hell and Back Again", I've just had to roll a d10 for psychic damage, due to a 'trait' called 'fear of bony things'. I entered a vehicle which ...
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What happens when a character with the Immanence Destiny takes Dual-Type damage?
A character with the Immanence Epic Destiny has the following ability:
Immanence Variable Resistance (21st level): After the first time you take damage of a particular type during an encounter, you ...
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How do damage resistances work with regards to magical weapons?
When a monster has resistance to a physical damage type (or physical damage in general), how does this interact with magical weapons?
For example, a Skeletal Soldier has resistance 5 against piercing ...
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How does Elemental Adept and Oath of Ancients' Aura of Warding interact? [duplicate]
Elemental Adept allows a spell to ignore resistance to the damage type that is chosen when the Feat is taken. Let's say a Draconic Sorcerer chose Fire when taking the Feat.
An Oath of Ancient's ...
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What are the options for a PC with cold resistance and darkvision?
Here's what doesn't seem to work:
Goliath (does not have darkvision)
Mountain Dwarf (does not have cold resistance)
The only race that seems to have both is the Triton.
Any other options for a race /...
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Can you make armor with multiple elemental resistances using only wool and copper? And how much time and money would it cost?
For context
One of my players is playing for the first time and has some problems with magic and how versatile it is, therefore he is attempting to make an armor to resist fire, lightning, acid and ...
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When is casting Blade Ward better than taking the Dodge action?
I'm considering Blade Ward for a character's cantrip selection. It takes an action to cast, resulting in the following effect:
Until the end of your next turn, you have resistance against ...
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How much damage does an abyssal drake take from cold effects?
An abyssal drake is, conceptually, a really simple creature. A cross between demons, wyverns, and a red dragon. The red dragon provides its fire subtype, while the demons provide resistance to ...
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Does resistance to a damage type prevent similarly named conditions from applying?
Creatures with resistances take half the damage from an attack of the type it is resistant to. But what happens if a condition is applied? For example, if someone with poison resistance gets poisoned ...
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Using the optional rule on falling onto a creature, is the fall damage divided between creatures before or after damage resistance/reduction?
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (p. 170) offers the following optional rule on falling onto a creature:
If a creature falls into the space of a second creature and neither of them is Tiny, the second ...
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