12-31-2018, 12:47 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Sydney
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DR versus different types of damage and follow up
If a PC has DR 10 versus cutting as well as DR 1 versus everything and is hit by 10 points of damage attack with a 1 point of damage burning follow up.
Does the attack do damage because the DR 1 is subtracted first? Or is the DR 1 subtracted last and the attack does the point of damage? |
12-31-2018, 02:02 PM | #3 |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
In this scenario, the Follow-Up does nothing, as the Cutting attack failed to pass DR, and the 1 point of DR vs everything stops a 1-point Follow-Up. Had the Cutting attack dealt 11 damage, the Follow-Up would ignore DR entirely. Likewise, if the Follow-Up did 2 damage and the Cut did 10, the Burn would deal with the 1 DR vs everything and 1 damage would get through to HP.
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12-31-2018, 09:27 PM | #4 | |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
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The downside to this is 1 v everything is more valuable, so if you have it on the outside it will be the first thing you lose to a Corrosive Attack. |
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12-31-2018, 11:13 PM | #5 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast NC
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
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If DR 1+9, than 11 points cutting would penetrate and the burning would bypass DR, regardless of order. If DR 1+10, than 11 points cutting would not penetrate and the burning would be stopped by DR, regardless of order.
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01-01-2019, 12:11 AM | #6 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
Iachimba said "DR 10 versus cutting as well as DR 1 versus everything" so the total against cutting would be 11, since he said "everything" (which would include cutting) instead of "everything else" (which would exclude cutting)
The question is if it is presented as 10+1 or 1+10. Which is the "outermost". Having your better more-inculsive DR on the outside is generally better, except when it comes to losing it first to Corrosive Attacks, or maybe hurting people punching you who you'd rather not hurt. |
01-01-2019, 01:31 AM | #7 |
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Sydney
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
Its magic.
So the PC has everyday regular armour as well as magic protection against crushing damage. There seems to be no written rule that says DR versus a specific type of damage is hit first vs just normal DR being hit first. The outer layer rules are written, but is magic an outer layer or an internal layer. That's a pretty big difference with crushing-followup attacks |
01-01-2019, 01:36 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
In general, innate DR without the force field advantage should be assumed to be underneath other armor. However, this doesn't matter for follow up, because follow-up does not care about armor layers, it just triggers on whether the attack 'penetrates the target's DR', and that means penetrates all layers.
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01-01-2019, 02:28 AM | #9 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
Where it matters is that if you don't penetrate DR, Follow-Up triggers on the outside like a separate attack affected normally by DR.
So if you had DR 2 (Piercing Only) and DR 5 (Burning Only)... 3 piercing damage w/ 10 followup Burning damage ends up inflicting 1 piercing and 10 burning. The DR 5 does not apply because it was bypassed by the piercing attack. 1 piercing w/ 10 followup burning on the other hand, does 0 piercing and 5 burning, because since DR wasn't pierced, the followup is affected by the external DR. |
01-01-2019, 01:51 PM | #10 | |
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Sydney
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Re: DR versus different types of damage and follow up
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If the crushing is the outer layer then the attack will do no damage. If its the interior layer then the attack does actual damage. |
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damage, damage resistance, follow-up |
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