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Ok. I have a character with 2 items that gives 5/- resist to slashing. After absorbing 5 damage my character gets hurt. Resistances dont stack?

Resistance and Reduction stack, as does Reduction Resistance and Spell based Resistance iirc.

So for example, if you had a 5/- bludgeoning resist item, and Ghostly Visage, you'd have ~15/- bludgeoning resist.

There's three types of Damage Prevention. Reduction, Resistance, and Immunity. They all stack with each other, but not with themselves, and they are applied in this order: Immunity, Resistance, Reduction.

Immunity:
Immunity is listed as a %. Basically, a certain portion of that type of damage is ignored. So 50% Piercing Immunity would reduce 10 damage to 5, for example

Resistance:
Damage Resistance is listed as x/-, where x is the amount of damage ignored. It applies to a specific damage type, for example, slashing. THis is what your items provide.

Reduction:
Damage Reduction is listed as +x soak y, where x is the amount of damage ignored, and y is the enhancement bonus or attack bonus needed to negate the effect. It applies to all physical damage. For example, an item with +1 soak 5 damage reduction. Any physical damage deal by a normal weapon is reduced by 5. If a weapon of +1 or greater enhancement is used, however, it penetrates the effect, and does full damage.

Oh, OK. Thanks Jonezie. Learn something new everyday.

OK. Now I'm really going to bed. LOL

Goooooooood Night!

p0m wrote:Resistance and Reduction stack, as does Reduction Resistance and Spell based Resistance iirc.

So for example, if you had a 5/- bludgeoning resist item, and Ghostly Visage, you'd have ~15/- bludgeoning resist.

Ghostly Visage is Damage Reduction: 5/+1, or +1 soak 5. So in your example...

* Normal Blugeoning weapons would do 10 less damage (-5 from the item, -5 from the spell)
* Normal Slashing/Piercing weapons would do 5 less damage (-5 from the spell)
* +1 or greater blugeoning weapons would do 5 less damage (-5 from the item)
* +1 or greater Slashing/Piercing weapons would do full damage.

Jonezie wrote: Ghostly Visage is Damage Reduction: 5/+1, or +1 soak 5. So in your example...

Erh, either this is a case of the NWN manual being wrong again, or I'm lost.

According to the manual, it's 10/+2 reduction.

p0m wrote:

Jonezie wrote: Ghostly Visage is Damage Reduction: 5/+1, or +1 soak 5. So in your example...

Erh, either this is a case of the NWN manual being wrong again, or I'm lost.

According to the manual, it's 10/+2 reduction.

The manual is not to be trusted. For more accurate information download the Neverwinter Grimoire from the vault. I think the current version is 3.0. Or, for spells, look on the wiki.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Jonezie for explaining that so clearly! The family of damage preventions have been so bewildering to me up until now.