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<blockquote data-quote="GoLu" data-source="post: 4345831" data-attributes="member: 58460">For added kicks, look at the symbol of radiance (page 237).&nbsp; It does radiant damage without having the radiant keyword, but does happen to have the healing keyword.Lightning serpent (page 163) is another weird one.&nbsp; It has the lightning and poison keywords, and the spell does lightning damage and ongoing poison damage.&nbsp; It seems like the two different keywords are there to indicate the spell contains both a lightning and a poison component, but that they are intended to remain separate.Or what about, say, Lion of Battle (page 88).&nbsp; It's a physical attack, half damage on a miss.&nbsp; If you drop the target to 0 hp, you make a secondary attack against will that makes people run away from you.&nbsp; It has the fear keyword, and it seems reasonable from the fluff to assume that the fear effect is intended to be only the secondary attack and not also the primary attack.&nbsp; Reasonable, but not mentioned anywhere in the rules.Now, page 55 does mention that immunity to one keyword doesn't protect against other effects from other keywords, but (aside from typed damage) it doesn't explain how to figure out what's part of a given keyword and what isn't.&nbsp; And page 276 is also pretty specific about how damage types work, implying that the keywords of a power don't necessarily correlate with the damage the power does (which has its own keywords).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GoLu, post: 4345831, member: 58460"] For added kicks, look at the symbol of radiance (page 237). It does radiant damage without having the radiant keyword, but does happen to have the healing keyword. Lightning serpent (page 163) is another weird one. It has the lightning and poison keywords, and the spell does lightning damage and ongoing poison damage. It seems like the two different keywords are there to indicate the spell contains both a lightning and a poison component, but that they are intended to remain separate. Or what about, say, Lion of Battle (page 88). It's a physical attack, half damage on a miss. If you drop the target to 0 hp, you make a secondary attack against will that makes people run away from you. It has the fear keyword, and it seems reasonable from the fluff to assume that the fear effect is intended to be only the secondary attack and not also the primary attack. Reasonable, but not mentioned anywhere in the rules. Now, page 55 does mention that immunity to one keyword doesn't protect against other effects from other keywords, but (aside from typed damage) it doesn't explain how to figure out what's part of a given keyword and what isn't. And page 276 is also pretty specific about how damage types work, implying that the keywords of a power don't necessarily correlate with the damage the power does (which has its own keywords). [/QUOTE]

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