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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gerion of Mercadia" data-source="post: 3429184" data-attributes="member: 50527">The problem is what follows this line later on."Energy" has a type - Cold, Fire, Electricity, Sonic, or Acid.If you want to apply a "realism" rule - damage from the average sword swing is of an "energy type" - Kinetic, and the ability of DR is utterly useless.  There is a difference between the word "energy" as you and I use it and "Energy" as defined in the context of the game.  Unfortunately, WotC writers have a bad habit of using the same word to describe both items.  We just have to deal with it.Another scenario - if this Viscious weapon is Ghost Touched, and you are Ethereal - does the extra 1d6 hit you if you are striking a corporeal opponent?Now, as for an explanation: When I asked the questionI was laying a little bit of a trap - ok, a whole lot of a trap, that Caliban walked right into.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> If you want to state that when you use a viscious weapon to deal damage, the target takes an extra 2d6 damage and you take an extra 1d6 damage that can't be negated by any means because that is the intent of the weapon, thats fine.  It is the best argument you have, and you can do it.  I would also agree with you.However, we are dealing with RAW or Rule As Written.  With WotC products *especially MagictheGathering* the designers have a history of writing an effect or rule and not fully anticipating its impact on the game.  If you want to interpret the RAW however, the 2d6 and 1d6 "extra damage" are just that "extra".  They add on to whatever damage the sword is dealing and thus acquire the type of damage the weapon deals.  This is how you get to negate some sneak attack damage if you have a high enough DR, and also how sneak attack damage can sometimes bypass DR.@ Hyp - There is a principle in Law which states that when you get an answer right, but for the wrong reason, you made the correct decision.  I also like your question about "positive and negative energy damage", because turnabout is fair play.  The danger is when you take a single instance and attempt to set a precedent.In actuality, if your damage has no type it would be blocked by DR.  DR requires that damage be of a specific type in order to bypass it.  This is why Damage Reduction is listed in a form #/something.  There are cases where damage reduction is listed as #/- in which case there is no substance or condition(s) that bypass the DR defence.In the case of a flaming weapon, the "damage dealt" from the flaming feature has the fire energy descriptor (emphasis bold) - and therefore:The words "energy damage" here clearly refer to the five typed energies, that are negated by the feature energy resistance as opposed to the feature damage reduction.going to the first post question -The fact that you made the statement I quoted and bolded correctly added the damage from the weapon and the vicious quality together is the reasoning behind what I stated above.</blockquote>

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