12-11-2014, 11:46 AM | #1 |
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Can you stack linked damage against DR?
Quick question for the hive mind, is there a RAW way to make an attack that has two diffrent damage types that stack?
For example lets say I want to stat something like a Warhammer 40k power sword using an innate attack that does normal cutting or implying damage but is also surrounded by an enegery field that erodes normal matter so I want it to do an extra +1d corrosive damage which stacks with the cutting/implying damage (note: to avoid confusion and people getting caught up on the power weapon angle; this is just a hypothetical example, I'm not looking to literally recreate a 40k power weapon. I know how easy it is to get side tracked on the fiddly details heh) And if there isn't a RAW way of doing this, any ideas how to?
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12-11-2014, 01:16 PM | #2 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
Link would be how you would do it, except there is no clean way of deciding which part of the damage is what penetrates DR.
Different damage types get different injury modifiers once they pass through DR, and stacking two dissimilar types with the idea that they help get past DR creates a problem there. About the best you can do in that case is to buy ONE Innate attack with a base damage type, and then add in all the damage effects of the other type through enhancements. So: Innate Attack Cutting 1d (Corrosive +100%), getting you a generally x1.5x wounding modifier after DR, and the ability to burn of impacted DR at the usual 5 damage to 1 DR ratio, along with the the "blinds one eye on a major wound" benefit on a hit to the face. Conversely, it should have to deal with DR (corrosion only) where a normal cutting attack wouldnt.
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12-11-2014, 01:39 PM | #3 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
@chandley: Ah, ok. That idea words, in fact with the idea I had in mind your suggestion might even work better since armor eroding properties of corrosive was what I was interested in. Thanks!
So pretty much take the point cost of the damage type you want to add, multiple it by ten and throw a percentage sign on it to make it a modifier.
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12-11-2014, 01:39 PM | #4 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
Link doesn't do it, Linked effects deal with DR separately.
Followup is the closest thing, but it's sequential and even there not cumulative for penetration. What you want...frankly isn't well defined. The two different attacks can face different DRs and have different wounding types. There's no right way to resolve an attack doing, say, 7 cutting + 3 corrosive.
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12-11-2014, 01:44 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
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Or you could make the cutting be a follow-up on the corrosive, so that if the corrosive effect actually penetrates the armor, the cutting doesn't need to.
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12-11-2014, 01:55 PM | #6 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
And for a good reason. Let's say the 7+3 attack hits DR 5. Is that 5 cutting that penetrates? 4 cutting + 1 corrosive? Any other possible combination that adds up to 5 damage. You need to also specify in what order they penetrate. It gets ugly.
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12-11-2014, 02:10 PM | #7 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
Basically because I wanted the corrosive effect to be cumulative with the cutting/impaling damage, think like a plasma cutter effect.
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12-11-2014, 02:12 PM | #8 | |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
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Perhaps a better question would be whether there's an Enhancement (in the style of Extra Blunt Trauma or Incendiary ) that will add the DR destroying nature of Corrosive to your Cutting damage. I can't recall if there is. Last edited by The Benj; 12-11-2014 at 04:23 PM. Reason: Clarity as to what I was responding to. |
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12-11-2014, 02:38 PM | #9 |
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Re: Can you stack linked damage against DR?
Doesn't follow up do this RAW?
Okay, so only says that if the carrier penetrates, then DR has no effect, but doesn't specify what happens if the carrier effect penetrates halfway. I don't think it's unreasonable to read it the way you want, though. At most, I'd apply an extra 20% enhancement and call it a day. |
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