The World of Avlis

can someone tell me the meaning of the numbers/ dashes in this?

(10/- Slashing)

it protects against slashing, that's easy, but what do the numbers really mean? if you gather 100 protection points against say, slashing, are you immune to slashing?

-J

the first 10 points of damage from a slashing weapon will be absorbed by the item.

10/-

Means that it will protect you from the first 10 points of slashing damage from each hit.
What is listed after the / tells you what will penetrate that protection.
so /- means that there is nothing that will penetrate it.
If it were 10/+3 then a +3 or better weapon would ignore the protection and do you full damage.

the same type of protection does not stack, so you cannot 'gather' 100 points. If you have 3 items with 10/- slashing, it will still only stop 10 points per hit.

Damage resistance and damage reduction (easily confused) will stack.
So you might for instance have 10/- slashing and 5/+2 soak
This would stop 15 points from a normal or +1 weapon but only 10 from a +2 slashing weapon.

10/+1 slashing means that 10 points of slashing will be absorbed -- unless a +1 weapon or better is used.

10/+3 piercing means that 10 points of piercing will be absorbed -- unless a +3 weapon or better is used.

10/- bludgeoning means that 10 points of bludgeoning damage will be absorbed, regardless of how mundane or enchanted the weapon is.

Note that the first two examples are damage reduction; the third is damage resistance. Reduction and resistance stack.

- Aeveras

great!

thanks all.

-J

While we're at it, two clarifications about Damage Immunity:

1) Does Immunity absorb damage before Reduction and Resistance?
2) If I remember correctly, Immunities DO stack. Can someone verify?

GimpGenius wrote:While we're at it, two clarifications about Damage Immunity:

1) Does Immunity absorb damage before Reduction and Resistance?
2) If I remember correctly, Immunities DO stack. Can someone verify?

The order of operations is immunity->resistance->reduction. Immunity stacks with resistance and reduction this way, but I can't remember if it stacks with itself. Anyone?

- Aeveras