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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5475133" data-attributes="member: 4937">Not at all, especially with you getting double damage to swarms and especially since it gives continuous damage over time.  However, I should note that the ruling you seem to have become happy with is probably not the intention of the rules.  Though I admit that the rules could be read such that a creature directly hit by a grenade like splash weapon takes both the damage for a direct hit and the splash damage (since technically the creature is 'within 5' of the point of impact'), I do not believe that that is the intention of the rules.  I believe the intention of the rules is that you take either the direct damage hit or the splash damage but not both.  However, do what works for your table and I'm not that worried about this on a gamist level because it opens up area of effect damage to a greater number of classes.Just for the record though, resistance doesn't work like that.  The resistance would be applied against each attack, so if you have to apply -5 to the direct damage AND -5 to the splash damage.   So in fact, you'd only be doing 3d6 damage versus something with fire resistance 5.  Still, even that's not be bad considering this is a very bad case for you (equivelent to melee attacking a target that has DR you can't overcome).Yes, that would be the superior strategy.</blockquote>