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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2816551" data-attributes="member: 1656">Remember, there is (sometimes) a distinction between damage dealt, and damage taken.Reflex Half: The spell deals damage, and a successful saving throw halves the damage taken (round down).The primary bolt deals 1d6/level damage; if you save, the damage taken is half of that.  The secondary bolt deals half the damage that the primary bolt did.Let's say the caster rolls 30 damage, and the primary target fails his save but has Electricity Resistance 10.  The damage dealt is 30; the damage taken is 20.The secondary bolt deals half as much damage as the primary bolt did; the primary bolt dealt 30 points of damage, even though only 20 points of damage were taken; the secondary bolt therefore deals 15.(Interestingly, while the description of a Reflex Half saving throw states that damage taken is halved, the description of Evasion refers to effects that allows damage dealt to be halved.)Evasion states nothing about avoiding the attack, merely that no damage is taken from the attack.  It struck to no effect.Chain Lightning is a Target spell with no attack roll required; it doesn't miss.  The saving throw (or Evasion) simply reduce the damage taken by the target that it automatically strikes.-Hyp.</blockquote>