D&D 5E Quick Thought: Stacking Resistance House-Rule?

[DND_Reborn]

Anyone house-rule resistance can stack for two sources?

I was thinking double-resistance is 1/4 damage or even immunity.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

No. Easier to go the 3e and 4e route and have resistance apply to a specific amount of damage. So maybe default is resistance 10 and stack from their.

 

[jmartkdr2]

I've never see it made a general rule, but I did have one character who had fire resistance from like, four sources so the dm just fiat-ed that to immunity.

 

[ECMO3]

No. Easier to go the 3e and 4e route and have resistance apply to a specific amount of damage. So maybe default is resistance 10 and stack from their.

I really hated that about 3E.

 

[cbwjm]

I thought about this and was thinking that if a character gains two permanent sources of resistance, that they gain a once/short rest ability where they are immune to the damage and heal hit points equal to half the damage dealt. This means that if they gain fire resistance from race and class that they gain the ability but if they gain it from race and spell then they wouldn't gain this ability because the spell is temporary.

 

[Shiroiken]

I've never see it made a general rule, but I did have one character who had fire resistance from like, four sources so the dm just fiat-ed that to immunity.

This is probably how I'd do it. Two sources isn't enough, but 3 or 4 and I'd consider immunity.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Yeah, I was only thinking permanent resistances, not temporary.

Maybe for each additional source, once per short or long rest you can grant yourself immunity instead?

So, if you had three sources, you would always have resistance, and twice per rest you could give yourself immunity against a single damage source.

I think that would be balanced and still provide some benefit for having multiple sources of resistance.