Grazzt
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Unless I overlooked something, they don't differentiate between natural and magical (cold, fire, etc). So, cold damage is cold damage be it from subfreezing temps or from a cone of cold. Same for fire, lightning, and so on.
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Unless I overlooked something, they don't differentiate between natural and magical (cold, fire, etc). So, cold damage is cold damage be it from subfreezing temps or from a cone of cold. Same for fire, lightning, and so on.
Yeah. I know. I was just writing stuff up off the top of my head...how I would do it. And I've always thought "unnatural" creatures should probably require "unnatural/arcane/magical" solutions...A devil shouldn't care if they are sent into the heart of a volcano or the make a 1,000 miles trek across a glacier to fulfill some mission/directive from their higher ups...or on some scheme of their own accord. Getting hit with a fireball or cone of cold should do some, if not full, damage. But being in "hostile [to most PC races] environments" shouldn't really matter to them...or so I've often thought.
Grazzt
Demon Lord
Agreed. (And I also agree with an older post SKR made in the 3.x days about fewer absolutes, like immunities. Monsters should have high resistances, but not outright immunity except in a few cases maybe. I think the example he gave was a fire giant, immune to fire, can walk into the heart of a star, no big deal. Or get eaten by the elemental god of fire, no fire damage.)
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