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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akbearfoot" data-source="post: 4584604" data-attributes="member: 33560">If people want to say that the ground counts as a weapon, then can I cast Magic weapon on the ground and swing people at it?  A natural 20 always hits <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-p" title="Stick out tongue    :-p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-p" />Falling is neither an attack, nor a weapon...It is a side effect of your feet unexpectedly leaving the ground while you're not able to fly.  If you leave the ground on purpose, it's called jumping, and that too turns into a fall eventually.It's probably untyped damage because 'massive internal trauma' isnt a recognized damage type.  Damage from broken bones that pierce other internal organs...TBIs, internal bleeding....doesen't really fit into a neat category of bludgeoning/piercing/slashing.So I agree that by RAW damage reduction does NOT reduce falling damage.  But I also think it probably should, based simply on the loose ideal that 'having an extrordinarily tough hide' or being able to 'instantly heal some wounds' could reduce the damage...Afterall we're only talking about a few hitpoints,  in a short fall the tough hide could leave you unscathed.  But in a larger fall, that 10 points isnt going to matter.</blockquote>