Couple o questions

[Clumsy Bob]

Hi, just finished my weekly game and a couple of points arose. (Don't they always.)
1) If a spell is cast upon someone that reduces their damage. Would it affect someone using a missile weapon? I could understand a mighty bow or thrown weapon, but what about a sling or crossbow. If the answer is yes then would the damage reduction apply to spells? ray of frost for example.

(edit) second question removed as I cant get my diagram to work.

Thanks in advance

Bob

 

[MichaelH]

1. What's the spell?

2. The diagram is a little confusing. Could you try to be more clear what it is that you are asking?

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

DAMAGE REDUCTION
Some magic creatures have the supernatural ability to instantly heal damage from weapons or to ignore blows altogether as though they were invulnerable.
The numerical part of a creature’s damage reduction is the amount of hit points the creature ignores from normal attacks. Usually, a certain type of weapon can overcome this reduction. This information is separated from the damage reduction number by a slash. Damage reduction may be overcome by special materials, by magic weapons (any weapon with a +1 or higher enhancement bonus, not counting the enhancement from masterwork quality), certain types of weapons (such as slashing or bludgeoning), and weapons imbued with an alignment. If a dash follows the slash then the damage reduction is effective against any attack that does not ignore damage reduction.
Ammunition fired from a projectile weapon with an enhancement bonus of +1 or higher is treated as a magic weapon for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. Similarly, ammunition fired from a projectile weapon with an alignment gains the alignment of that projectile weapon (in addition to any alignment it may already have).
Whenever damage reduction completely negates the damage from an attack, it also negates most special effects that accompany the attack, such as injury type poison, a monk’s stunning, and injury type disease. Damage reduction does not negate touch attacks, energy damage dealt along with an attack, or energy drains. Nor does it affect poisons or diseases delivered by inhalation, ingestion, or contact.
Attacks that deal no damage because of the target’s damage reduction do not disrupt spells.
Spells, spell-like abilities, and energy attacks (even nonmagical fire) ignore damage reduction.
Sometimes damage reduction is instant healing. Sometimes damage reduction represents the creature’s tough hide or body,. In either case, characters can see that conventional attacks don’t work.
If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation.

That should answer your first question.

For the second question, I don't understand the diagram either...

BTW, MichaelH, Welcome to the boards!

AR

 

[Clumsy Bob]

1. What's the spell?

2. The diagram is a little confusing. Could you try to be more clear what it is that you are asking?

oops guess I should have previewed the post first, that looks nothing like I intended.
The spel used in the situation was crushing despair, basically -2 to everything.

 

[Li Shenron]

1) If a spell is cast upon someone that reduces their damage. Would it affect someone using a missile weapon? I could understand a mighty bow or thrown weapon, but what about a sling or crossbow. If the answer is yes then would the damage reduction apply to spells? ray of frost for example.

If the spell directly reduces any damage done by the target (with weapons I suppose), then it just applies to all damage, no matter how the weapon works. It must be a homebrew spell or non-core, usually a spell would rather effect for example the target's Strength.

I therefore assume that your spell say something like: "the damage dealt by the target of the spell when using weapons is reduces as...".

Since the damage is weapon damage, DR applies normally.

A Ray of Frost (or any other spell) completely bypass damage reduction instead.