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D&D 5E Werewolves/rats and damage immunity
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iserith
Magic Wordsmith
It's not a good point at all. The goal and approach stated by the player in that example is to beat a wererat to death with a club. That very clearly calls the rules for weapons and hit point reduction into play whereas strangling a wererat to death does not.
That is a fair question considering that poster's position and one that I believe comes up with some frequency in damage immunity/reduction discussions.
No, they aren't immune since falling damage isn't caused by a weapon.
iserith
Magic Wordsmith
A disagreeable position to say the least and I'll leave it at that.
I agree with you on the topic of both strangulation and the flaw of clubbing analogy. However, I did think it was an argument that considered the reality of the gameworld rather than this RAW twaddle. If I want to play a board game, I play a board game not a RPG.
I think that rulings must always be employed to make sure the game models a sensible game world. Taking the RAW and extrapolating the nature of gameworld reality from that is the path to madness. [Rules-as-physics ..].
But then I'm a grumpy-old-man gamer - but, equally, the sort of person /5e is trying to pull back to the game, I believe. Much of this discussion has done little to entice me back.
So, if the party push the wererat off a cliff will it suffer damage - or have the weaponised the cliff?
ad_hoc
(they/them)
That is ridiculous.
How so?
ad_hoc
(they/them)
So you can't push a sword into a wererat but you can push a wererat into a sword.
Actually, no you can't do that either. No matter where the force comes from, the sword remains a weapon. However, a cliff is not a weapon...not even an improvised weapon.
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