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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9064388" data-attributes="member: 23751">Cool. So now you know that schools have nothing to do with the lists.  Glad I could answer that one for you.Why doesn't it do those things?  For the same reason longswords don't detonate a nuclear strike whenever you swing one.  RAW doesn't say that it does.Read the spell.  It summons no elements to counteract the fire, so it doesn't.  Read the spell.  It doesn't say it alters the target, so it doesn't.  It simply wards, because that's what it says that it does.You are free to homebrew these changes into the spell so that it turns you into a tiefling or summons cold energy, but by RAW it does not do those things.For an example of a transmutation spell that gives resistances, look at Shapechange.  That spell turns you into a creature and you gain the resistances that it has.It's not an assumption.  It's a fact.  In fact the spell does none of the things you are inventing above.  It only wards.  I'll quote you the spell so you can see what RAW says it does.PROTECTION FROM ENERGY3rd-level abjurationCasting Time: 1 actionRange: TouchComponents: V, SDuration: Concentration, up to 1 hourFor the duration, the willing creature you touch has resistance to one damage type of your choice: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder.That's all that it does.  No transformations mentioned.  No elemental energies used.That would be a great homebrew and it while I don't think it would make more or less sense, it would be a cool change from what we have.  I really doubt WotC would ever do that, though.  They're moving towards making everything samey, not away from it.  That's why we get divine smite as a spell when there was nothing wrong with leaving it alone and just limiting it to once per round.</blockquote>

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