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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spoof" data-source="post: 757736" data-attributes="member: 3188">Hey I was wondering something.  I can not remember and as I do not have my books with me I’ll ask the question here.  In the current edition if you are fighting something with a DR of 15/+2 and have a +1/flaming sword.  You do with a long sword 1d8+1 + (1d6 flaming damage) per swing.  Does the creature take the 1d6 flaming damage as it is added damage, and subject to fire resistance?Ok now with the new rules with the same creature DR15/+2 will it take the fire damage?What if the creature was DR15/shocking would it just lump all damage dealt to it from the +1-flaming sword towards its DR, and not have the flaming damage apply to it around the DR?Same goes for a skeleton with its 5/Blunt.  With a +1dagger/flaming would the flaming part apply directly to the skeletons DR?  Example:You hit the Skeleton and roll 2 for damage and 2 for fire damageDoes this mean that the 2+1(Magical Bonus) apply to the DR and not injure the skeleton but the 2 fire damage does burn the skeleton, or does the 2+1(Magical)+2(Fire) = 5 damage not injure the skeleton at all?And before anyone states that they are reducing most creatures frontal DR number I know, this was just an example <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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