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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8221446" data-attributes="member: 6906155">This is actually the key question to parsing this ability: &quot;can I change Stoneskin to give me fire resistance*?&quot;Lets look at the text: &quot;When you cast a wizard spell with a spell slot, you can temporarily replace its damage type...&quot;. The answer is no. Stoneskin does not have a damage type. There is no ambiguous word &quot;appears&quot; there.The next part of the sentence is what is causing the confusion: &quot;with a type that appears in another spell in your spellbook&quot;. This indicates that if you can replace A with B you can also replace B with A. If I know Alter Self and Acid Arrow I can create acid damage claws or I can shoot slashing damage arrows. It's either both or neither.What the word &quot;appears&quot; does do is let you select any damage type when the spell has a choice. If use absorb elements to absorb cold damage, I can use this ability to replace the cold damage I would do back with force damage from my magic missile. Very useful, since creatures are often resistant to their own damage.*note that 5e does not distinguish between magical and non-magical fire damage. Fire damage is fire damage. It also impossible for a spell to do non-magical damage of any type. Spells are, by definition, magic. See the sage advice on Hunter's Mark.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 8221446, member: 6906155"] This is actually the key question to parsing this ability: "can I change [I]Stoneskin [/I]to give me fire resistance*?" Lets look at the text: [I]"When you cast a wizard spell with a spell slot, you can temporarily replace its damage type...". [/I]The answer is no. [I]Stoneskin[/I] does not have a damage type. There is no ambiguous word "appears" there. The next part of the sentence is what is causing the confusion: [I]"with a type that appears in another spell in your spellbook". [/I]This indicates that if you can replace A with B you can also replace B with A. If I know [I]Alter Self[/I] and [I]Acid Arrow[/I] I can create acid damage claws [I]or[/I] I can shoot slashing damage arrows. It's either both or neither. What the word [I]"appears"[/I] does do is let you select any damage type when the spell has a choice. If use absorb elements to absorb cold damage, I can use this ability to replace the cold damage I would do back with force damage from my [I]magic missile[/I]. Very useful, since creatures are often resistant to their own damage. *note that 5e does not distinguish between magical and non-magical fire damage. Fire damage is fire damage. It also impossible for a spell to do non-magical damage of any type. Spells are, by definition, magic. See the sage advice on [I]Hunter's Mark[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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