Skeletons... Piercing weapons?

[ThomasBJJ]

Just a quick question. In the skeleton entry, and also the undead section of the MM, it says they take 1/2 damage from piercing and slashing damage. However, in the PHB (I dont recall withc section) it says something about skeletons taking no damage from piercing weapons. Which is it?

 

[Darklone]

Half damage

The half damage is it. This has been mentioned in Sage advice (DnDFAQ at the WotC homepage).

Personally I prefer to give them DR10/- against piercing and DR5/- against slashing weapons

 

[ThomasBJJ]

Dark, sounds good to me too. I'll try it.

 

[Thanee]

I liked the old (2nd ed. ?) rule, where piercing weapons did 1 damage per hit (slashing halved, crushing/bludgeoning full).

It seems a little weird, that a skeleton gets hurt by arrows and rapiers and such.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Spoof]

We used to and still do play skeletons as ½ damage vs slashing weapons and ¼ vs. piercing.

 

[Henrix]

The PHB (isn't that in the "Survival Guide", those pages at the end of the early printings?*) is in error. The MM is correct, all but blunt weapons do half damage.

(Piercing weapons are shafted anyhow )

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* It's also in the descriptions of te weapon headers in the Equipment chapter. The errata says:

Page 97, column 2, Type: delete no damage from

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