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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4510842" data-attributes="member: 13966">Well, normally the mitigating factor is just that a lot of monsters, especially high-CR monsters, have energy resistances.&nbsp; Practically every Outsider and his brother has a handful of energy resistances or immunities, plus the energy immunities of many Dragons and Elementals, some Aberrations, Oozes, Magical Beasts, etc.Note also that it takes a Command Word to activate these properties, like Flaming/Frost/Shock.&nbsp; Command Word activation is a standard action for each individual item.The rules themselves (I dunno if Rules Compendium changes it, though) don't say you can't have a holy and unholy weapon or a flaming and frost weapon (though the creator of a holy weapon must be good, and the creator of an unholy weapon must be evil, so you'd have to somehow get a good or evil cleric to enchant the weapon after its initial creation, and I don't think you'll find any such cleric who would even touch a weapon of the opposite alignment).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 4510842, member: 13966"] Well, normally the mitigating factor is just that a lot of monsters, especially high-CR monsters, have energy resistances. Practically every Outsider and his brother has a handful of energy resistances or immunities, plus the energy immunities of many Dragons and Elementals, some Aberrations, Oozes, Magical Beasts, etc. Note also that it takes a Command Word to activate these properties, like Flaming/Frost/Shock. Command Word activation is a standard action for each individual item. The rules themselves (I dunno if Rules Compendium changes it, though) don't say you can't have a holy and unholy weapon or a flaming and frost weapon (though the creator of a holy weapon must be good, and the creator of an unholy weapon must be evil, so you'd have to somehow get a good or evil cleric to enchant the weapon after its initial creation, and I don't think you'll find any such cleric who would even touch a weapon of the opposite alignment). [/QUOTE]

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