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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 4191073" data-attributes="member: 54629">It makes sense to list it separately so that the DM will roll it separately so that it's easier to determine how much cold and/or fire damage is negated by cold and/or fire resistance. If you tell your players that they've received 23 points of cold and fire damage, and some of them happen to have cold and/or fire resistance, they're going to want to know how much of that damage was cold energy and how much of it was fire and since you didn't roll it separately, you're going to be left saying, "Um ... uh, half was cold and half was fire? So let's just divide the number I rolled by two ... um, hang on ... it was an odd number so let's round down ... um ..."At least, that's how it would go for me, as I'm not very good at doing math in my head, especially when I've been put on the spot. I would find it easier to tell them that they've taken 5 cold damage (and if they have 5 cold resistance, they can just say, "OK, I don't take any cold damage) and 5 fire damage (and again if they have 5 fire resistance, they can just tell me they've resisted that damage as well ...).Also, should the PCs somehow manage to get a high enough resistance or even immunity (if that's even possible in 4e) to a certain energy type, and if they happen to all go up against a creature that deals that energy type as well as another energy type, then I can just not bother to roll the die for that energy type because I know it won't have any effect on them.</blockquote>

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