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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6480451" data-attributes="member: 5834">We ran into an odd rule situation. Warding Bond is supposed to be like Shield Other. It works strangely with other defensive spells.The rules state that damage resistance doesn't stack. Warding Bond gives the target damage resistance to all types of damage. The caster takes the same amount of damage. It ultimately amounts to the same effect as Shield Other.Protection from Energy provides damage resistance against one type of energy. We cast both these spells on the fighter when fighting a dragon to protect against the breath weapon. According to the rules, these two abilities don't stack. Do you think that is intentional? Normally, Shield Other worked in conjunction with protection from energy. It seems like both spells should work together. Otherwise the target protected by Warding Bond and the cleric take full damage with Protection from Energy providing no bonus. It doesn't seem right due to the way Warding Bond is designed that the final effect of the spell combination is the breath weapon doing full damage. How would you run the stacking of these two spells? Warding Bond is not concentration and Protection from Energy is. So they can be stacked together. Would it possibly work better putting protection from energy on the cleric rather than the target of the Warding Bond? Would that make it work providing damage resistance against lightning damage through the bond link?</blockquote>

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