Do effects such as Weakened and insubstantial stack?

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#1

nortain

Aug 11, 2008 23:17:58
I was reviewing the stats of a wrath for 4th edition and noticed that it's attack weakens (saves end) the target but the wrath itself is also insubstantial. Both of these effects cause 1/2 damage. My question is since there are identical effects does only the stronger of the 2 get applied? I.E. player only does half damage or since they are coming from two different sources (one a condition of the player and one from the monster) would that mean that the player does 1/4 damage? Personally I think they wouldn't stack but it seems odd that a monster would have a redundant effect like that.
#2

Titanium_Dragon

Aug 11, 2008 23:33:42
I was reviewing the stats of a wrath for 4th edition and noticed that it's attack weakens (saves end) the target but the wrath itself is also insubstantial. Both of these effects cause 1/2 damage. My question is since there are identical effects does only the stronger of the 2 get applied? I.E. player only does half damage or since they are coming from two different sources (one a condition of the player and one from the monster) would that mean that the player does 1/4 damage? Personally I think they wouldn't stack but it seems odd that a monster would have a redundant effect like that.

They do stack, and this is the wrong forum for this question.

You deal half as much damage, and then the wraith takes only half as much damage as you dealt, resulting in you dealing only a quarter of your normal damage to the wraith.