Resistance clarification

[Otterscrubber]

If you have 2 types of resistance on you, say resist 10 and resist fire 5, and you get hit with a melee attack that also deals fire damage, say 2d6 of each, do you get to apply them separately against both types of damage? Example of this type of damage would be that of a fire giant or fire titan. Just curious as I have a ranger with a berserker sword and a cloak that gives him 5 fire resistance. would like to know if they affect each part of the attack or if the resist 10 trumps the resist fire and only 10 gets subtracted from the whole thing.

 

[Ginnel]

If you have 2 types of resistance on you, say resist 10 and resist fire 5, and you get hit with a melee attack that also deals fire damage, say 2d6 of each, do you get to apply them separately against both types of damage? Example of this type of damage would be that of a fire giant or fire titan. Just curious as I have a ranger with a berserker sword and a cloak that gives him 5 fire resistance. would like to know if they affect each part of the attack or if the resist 10 trumps the resist fire and only 10 gets subtracted from the whole thing.

You'd get damage reduction 10 versus the attack as the higher of the two resistances would apply, as the attack is doing untyped/fire and your resist 10 applies to everything, if you didn't have the resist 10 up you would subtract 5 from the damage as the attack is untyped&fire damage.

This is as far as I can tell from the rules and I would be happy to be corrected

 

[Henrix]

You'd get damage reduction 10 versus the attack as the higher of the two resistances would apply

The D&D Update states:

Resistance doesn’t reduce damage unless the target has resistance to each type of damage from the attack, and then only the weakest of the resistances applies.”

So normally you'd apply the lowest applicable resistance only.



But someone who has resist fire 5 and resist all 10 has resistance 10 vs. fire, so it would be resist 10, versus an attack that does fire & untyped damage.

However, a fire giant does 1d12+6 damage plus 2d8 fire damage, so in this case you'd subtract 10 from each.

 

[Otterscrubber]

The D&D Update states:


So normally you'd apply the lowest applicable resistance only.



But someone who has resist fire 5 and resist all 10 has resistance 10 vs. fire, so it would be resist 10, versus an attack that does fire & untyped damage.

However, a fire giant does 1d12+6 damage plus 2d8 fire damage, so in this case you'd subtract 10 from each.

So the attacks are considered separate attacks that each get applied to the resistances? I was going to ask that in my OP as well but it was late and I was lazy. Thank you for the clarification.

 

[Nebulous]

However, a fire giant does 1d12+6 damage plus 2d8 fire damage, so in this case you'd subtract 10 from each.

That...doesn't seem quite right to me (i could be wrong of course!). That would effectively be granting Resist 20 to the Firegiant if you just totaled the damage.

 

[abyssaldeath]

The extra fire damage would actually be reduce by five. Resist all 10 and resist fire 5 would reduce fire damage by 5. The weakest resistance applies.

 

[Obryn]

The extra fire damage would actually be reduce by five. Resist all 10 and resist fire 5 would reduce fire damage by 5. The weakest resistance applies.

Resist All 10 means that you have resistance to everything 10, including Fire. The Resist 5 Fire doesn't exist when you have a higher Resist All up.

-O