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<blockquote data-quote="Junkyard Dog" data-source="post: 7340493" data-attributes="member: 6804106">As DM I am running &quot;Heart of the Forbidden Forge,&quot; from Dungeon 167.&nbsp; In Encounter 9, a PC got hit by the Ghostly Flame Jets and began taking ongoing 5 fire and necrotic damage (save ends).&nbsp; While the PC was still under the effect of that ongoing damage, one of the Tomb Mote Swarms hit the same PC with Swarm of Bones, the effect of which reads as follows:&nbsp; &quot;1d6+1 necrotic damage, and ongoing 5 necrotic damage (save ends).&nbsp; A creature already taking ongoing 5 necrotic damage instead takes ongoing 10 necrotic damage (save ends).&quot;&nbsp; I believe that the PHB and the Rules Compendium consistently refer to combined damage types (emphasis on the plural), but never to combined types as being a single type.&nbsp; The applicable rules question in this case, then, is whether or not &quot;fire and necrotic&quot; and &quot;necrotic&quot; are different types of ongoing damage, or are the same type.&nbsp; I ruled that the PC was now taking 10 ongoing fire and necrotic damage (save ends).&nbsp; Was this correct?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Junkyard Dog, post: 7340493, member: 6804106"] As DM I am running "Heart of the Forbidden Forge," from Dungeon 167. In Encounter 9, a PC got hit by the Ghostly Flame Jets and began taking ongoing 5 fire and necrotic damage (save ends). While the PC was still under the effect of that ongoing damage, one of the Tomb Mote Swarms hit the same PC with Swarm of Bones, the effect of which reads as follows: "1d6+1 necrotic damage, and ongoing 5 necrotic damage (save ends). A creature already taking ongoing 5 necrotic damage instead takes ongoing 10 necrotic damage (save ends)." I believe that the PHB and the Rules Compendium consistently refer to combined damage [I]types[/I] (emphasis on the plural), but never to combined types as being a single type. The applicable rules question in this case, then, is whether or not "fire and necrotic" and "necrotic" are different types of ongoing damage, or are the same type. I ruled that the PC was now taking 10 ongoing fire and necrotic damage (save ends). Was this correct? [/QUOTE]

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