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<blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 301314" data-attributes="member: 834">Generating heat and cold at the same time.&nbsp; You should substract the 1D6 of heat from the 1D6 of cold and apply the remaining damage IMO.From the top of my head I couldn't find a rule but there are several precedent in D&amp;D that indicates that's the way it should work.&nbsp; Take the fire shield spell for example.&nbsp; It protects against fire by surrounding you with a cold aura (or protects against cold with a fire aura).Take wall of fire: if you inflict cold damage on it it goes out.Take the new epic spell Hellball:&nbsp; It inflicts 10D6 of damage of each energy type except cold.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Why not use a Fire/Cold combo?&nbsp; It would be very versatile as not many creature are immune to both and often if one is immune to fire, one is highly vulnerable to cold.&nbsp; But I presume the designer didn't do it for a reason.I don't know if there is a written rule concerning it, but it's a consistent design as I'm sure you can't find a core example of an object or a spell doing both cold and fire effect at the same time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mal Malenkirk, post: 301314, member: 834"] Generating heat and cold at the same time. You should substract the 1D6 of heat from the 1D6 of cold and apply the remaining damage IMO. From the top of my head I couldn't find a rule but there are several precedent in D&D that indicates that's the way it should work. Take the fire shield spell for example. It protects against fire by surrounding you with a cold aura (or protects against cold with a fire aura). Take wall of fire: if you inflict cold damage on it it goes out. Take the new epic spell Hellball: It inflicts 10D6 of damage of each energy type [i]except[/i] cold. Why? Why not use a Fire/Cold combo? It would be very versatile as not many creature are immune to both and often if one is immune to fire, one is highly vulnerable to cold. But I presume the designer didn't do it for a reason. I don't know if there is a written rule concerning it, but it's a consistent design as I'm sure you can't find a core example of an object or a spell doing both cold and fire effect at the same time. [/QUOTE]

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