Damage Types: Developers read post 13

[Sadrik]

This was a while back, but I recall the DR of a Warforged stopping psychic and poison damage. That tidbit has been in the back of my mind and it led me down the road to: what damage types should exist?

Here is my list of damage types:
Trauma/internal/poison/starvation/thirst/energy drain --> (con damage)
Psychic/mental --> (lethal or non-lethal???)
Fire/heat/lightning/lava/radiation/sun/positive energy --> (lethal)
Cold/negative energy/void/outer space --> (lethal)
Physical/force/sonic/earth/acid/falling --> (lethal)
Stun/air/water/suffocation --> (non-lethal)

I would also include a burning condition. Use the burning condition to take care of all of the cases where damage will occur over and over- Acid, catch on fire, and possibly poison.
I would also define paralysis as dex 0 not frozen in space

 

[Slife]

Here's my prediction for the all new seventeen damage types:
Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel

 

[Arkhandus]

.....OH! A Pokemon reference! For a moment I was thinking what the heck...? Mwahah.

 

[Sadrik]

Here's my prediction for the all new seventeen damage types:
Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel

Well, that is far too many

Limiting it to 6 damage types that captures all possibilities in them makes a lot more sense than what they have now imho.

 

[frankthedm]

Hmm, Psychic damage makes me suspect the Mind blast wil be damage dealing. As much as sitting there and sucking aspect of being mind blasted annoyed me, I DO hope the Mind Flayer has more durability in 4Esince his attack wont auto-negate his foes.

 

[Nifft]

Grass

Must ... suppress ...

Ooo, I know: that's the damage type you take when you fail a Tumble check outdoors.

Cheers, -- N

 

[ThirdWizard]

We need a ground damage type so that my 4e barbarian can protect himself from durned pit traps!

 

[Sammael]

Well, Cityscape had "urban damage" or whatever it was.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Many psionic powers from 3.5e like Mind Thrust, Psychic Crush and Ultrablast did psychic damage, except it was untyped damage from mind affecting powers.

Mind Thrust was a unique power in that it was save of suffer 1d10 per pp/level points of damage. I do wish their are spells based off of that in 4e to replace save or die spells.

 

[Sadrik]

Hmm, Psychic damage makes me suspect the Mind blast wil be damage dealing. As much as sitting there and sucking aspect of being mind blasted annoyed me, I DO hope the Mind Flayer has more durability in 4Esince his attack wont auto-negate his foes.

I agree, I hope they remove all of the "stun" like effects and convert them into something else. I think they have mentioned that somewhere too. But what do you do with hold person... Make it dex damage! 2d6 dex damage.