Aasimar and Favored Soul [Archive] - Wizards Community

Aasimar and Favored Soul [Archive] - Wizards Community

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nycfarmkid
04-18-05, 09:15 PM The aasimar has the extraordinary ability to resist 5 points of cold, acid, and electricity damage. The Favored soul class gains resistance 10 to three energy types over the course of its 20 levels. These are also extraordinary abilities. Now do these different abilities stack? Or do they overlap? If a favored soul picked cold would the resistance go to 15 or just 10? Thanks
Lexarius
04-18-05, 09:16 PM Overlap.

Though if your DM was nice, he'd let them stack. You're paying for that with level adjustment, after all.
DM Denubis
04-18-05, 10:14 PM Heh... Not if you have a Player's Guide to Faerun. ^^

By the way, they overlap.
nycfarmkid
04-18-05, 11:46 PM Heh... Not if you have a Player's Guide to Faerun. ^^

I'm not sure I understand this.
DM Zoc
04-19-05, 04:08 AM The aasimar has the extraordinary ability to resist 5 points of cold, acid, and electricity damage. The Favored soul class gains resistance 10 to three energy types over the course of its 20 levels. These are also extraordinary abilities. Now do these different abilities stack? Or do they overlap? If a favored soul picked cold would the resistance go to 15 or just 10? Thanks
Since energy resistance from different sources don't stack, you can look to get the most bang for your buck by taking resistance to fire, force, sonic, or negative energy (though I once had a tomb-tainted favored soul with resistance to positive energy).
nycfarmkid
04-19-05, 06:38 AM I didnt know if was possible to resist force. Thats an interesting idea.
DM Zoc
04-19-05, 06:52 AM The books are kind of vague on it, because resistance to positive/negative energy damage or force damage never show up on any monsters I can think of. The definition of "resistance" in the SRD says that it only applies against the "specified" energy types, but never goes towards explaining what qualifies as "energy."

We know that positive and negative are energy types. I'm not certain, but I believe that force is an energy type.

A lenient DM might let you get away with calling "piercing" an energy type, since there's no indication anywhere that it isn't (and this is essentially free reign to take resistance against any thing you want, from "tree" energy to "rock" energy [useful against giants] to the power-gamers and their resistance to "kinetic" energy [everything] to the free thinkers and their resistance to "potential" energy).
Lexarius
04-19-05, 07:23 AM Resistances help against energy damage. From the PHB:

"energy damage: Damage cause by one of five types of energy (not counting positive and negative energy): acid, cold, electricity, fire, and sonic"

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
nycfarmkid 04-18-05, 09:15 PM	The aasimar has the extraordinary ability to resist 5 points of cold, acid, and electricity damage. The Favored soul class gains resistance 10 to three energy types over the course of its 20 levels. These are also extraordinary abilities. Now do these different abilities stack? Or do they overlap? If a favored soul picked cold would the resistance go to 15 or just 10? Thanks
Lexarius 04-18-05, 09:16 PM	Overlap. Though if your DM was nice, he'd let them stack. You're paying for that with level adjustment, after all.
DM Denubis 04-18-05, 10:14 PM	Heh... Not if you have a Player's Guide to Faerun. ^^ By the way, they overlap.
nycfarmkid 04-18-05, 11:46 PM	Heh... Not if you have a Player's Guide to Faerun. ^^ I'm not sure I understand this.
DM Zoc 04-19-05, 04:08 AM	The aasimar has the extraordinary ability to resist 5 points of cold, acid, and electricity damage. The Favored soul class gains resistance 10 to three energy types over the course of its 20 levels. These are also extraordinary abilities. Now do these different abilities stack? Or do they overlap? If a favored soul picked cold would the resistance go to 15 or just 10? Thanks Since energy resistance from different sources don't stack, you can look to get the most bang for your buck by taking resistance to fire, force, sonic, or negative energy (though I once had a tomb-tainted favored soul with resistance to positive energy).
nycfarmkid 04-19-05, 06:38 AM	I didnt know if was possible to resist force. Thats an interesting idea.
DM Zoc 04-19-05, 06:52 AM	The books are kind of vague on it, because resistance to positive/negative energy damage or force damage never show up on any monsters I can think of. The definition of "resistance" in the SRD says that it only applies against the "specified" energy types, but never goes towards explaining what qualifies as "energy." We know that positive and negative are energy types. I'm not certain, but I believe that force is an energy type. A lenient DM might let you get away with calling "piercing" an energy type, since there's no indication anywhere that it isn't (and this is essentially free reign to take resistance against any thing you want, from "tree" energy to "rock" energy [useful against giants] to the power-gamers and their resistance to "kinetic" energy [everything] to the free thinkers and their resistance to "potential" energy).
Lexarius 04-19-05, 07:23 AM	Resistances help against energy damage. From the PHB: "energy damage: Damage cause by one of five types of energy (not counting positive and negative energy): acid, cold, electricity, fire, and sonic"