Flaming Weapon vs. Troll

[Altamont Ravenard]

Simple question, surely answered before:

If I hit a troll with a flaming longsword, do I deal 1d6+1d8 lethal damage, or 1d6 lethal (fire) + 1d8 non-leathel (sword)?

Thanks in advance.

AR

 

[kreynolds]

The latter.

 

[AeroDm]

Would you then be able to CDG with the sword and deal only d6 because the dice are not doubled?

 

[AuraSeer]

Would you then be able to CDG with the sword and deal only d6 because the dice are not doubled?

Yes. That means the troll is rather likely to succeed on its Fort save and survive the CDG. [Edited to clarify: The weapon still does physical damage, like in a regular CDG, but only the fire damage is used in calculating the Fort save DC.]

You could of course keep trying the CDG until you succeed, but it's often faster to just hack the thing with your iterative attacks. Once it has taken enough fire damage to reach -10 hp, it's permanently dead.

 

[BSF]

Hmm, here is an interesting question. Since a CDG basically emulates a crit, would you allow a Flaming Burst weapon to get the additional damage for a crit?

(For that matter, should any "burst" type weapon get the critical affects for a CDG?)

 

[Nifft]

(For that matter, should any "burst" type weapon get the critical affects for a CDG?)

I very explicitly do allow this. It's like a Rogue getting full Sneak Attack damage -- a CdG is supposed to be about as good as a blow gets.

-- N

 

[BSF]

That's what I would do as well. But, I am curious if others see it the same way.

 

[the Jester]

That's what I would do as well. But, I am curious if others see it the same way.

Heck yeah! A cdg is basically like slitting an unconscious foe's throat or something. That's pretty critical.

 

[Nifft]

According to the SRD, "You automatically hit and score a critical hit."

-- N