Unearthed Arcana The Unearthed Arcana Is Back With Cleric's Unity Domain!

Bitbrain · Feb 7, 2020

Panda-s1 said:
uh oh looks like d&d is starting to cater to the anime crowd :U

NANI!?

But seriously, is that a bad thing? I wouldn’t have gotten into D&D 5e if it hadn’t been for the fact I was watching Yona of the Dawn when my dad asked me if I wanted to join his gaming group. He told me I could recreate Hak and Gija fairly accurately in the game...

jasper · Feb 7, 2020

If I spread the damage around and the barbar is raging does he still take 1 pt of damage even if his resistance would drop to 1/2 of hp damage.
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Undrave said:
They specifically call out that Resistance are applied AFTER damage is spread. Now, wether you round up or down is probably in the rules for Resistance? Hopefully?
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PHB page 7.

There’s one more general rule you need to know at the outset. Whenever you divide a number in the game, round down if you end up with a fraction, even if the fraction is one-half or greater.

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Ok. Here is the deal. last paragraph of shared burden. Second to last sentence. Each creature MUST take at LEAST 1 Damage. Last Sentence say apply resistances.
Reading as a whole paragraph. The raging barbarian would take 0 damage.
Reading sentence by sentence. It could be you could not shared damage with the barbarian. Or it is a throw away of 1 HP of damage.

Raunalyn · Feb 7, 2020

Undrave said:
They specifically call out that Resistance are applied AFTER damage is spread. Now, wether you round up or down is probably in the rules for Resistance? Hopefully?

Hmmm...so if you use it on the raging Barbar, you spread the damage, then halve it?

NotAYakk · Feb 7, 2020

I think that is the only case of /3 or higher in the entire 5e game. It should have been 2 willing allies; halved is both faster, and gets most of the oomph.

Undrave · Feb 7, 2020

Raunalyn said:
Hmmm...so if you use it on the raging Barbar, you spread the damage, then halve it?

Yup!

RSIxidor · Feb 7, 2020

jasper said:
If I spread the damage around and the barbar is raging does he still take 1 pt of damage even if his resistance would drop to 1/2 of hp damage.
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PHB page 7.

There’s one more general rule you need to know at the outset. Whenever you divide a number in the game, round down if you end up with a fraction, even if the fraction is one-half or greater.

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Ok. Here is the deal. last paragraph of shared burden. Second to last sentence. Each creature MUST take at LEAST 1 Damage. Last Sentence say apply resistances.
Reading as a whole paragraph. The raging barbarian would take 0 damage.
Reading sentence by sentence. It could be you could not shared damage with the barbarian. Or it is a throw away of 1 HP of damage.

Ah, I get what you're saying now. Useful feedback to include in the next survey.

Myself, I'd allow the creature with resistance to reduce it to 0 as the statement about each creature "taking 1 damage" comes before the statement about resistances.

It would be good for them to make it more clear, to flat out state whether resistance can (in this specific case) reduce it to 0 or only reduce it to 1.

Also curious how this interacts with immunity to a damage type, which is not called out in the feature text. Technically speaking, resistance probably doesn't need to be called out either, except to make it clear that the math of how much damage each creature is taken is done before applying resistance/vulnerability.