Is bludgeoning damage good?

Is bludgeoning damage good?

This type of damage can be mitigated with bludgeoning damage immunity, bludgeoning damage resistance, or general damage reduction. It is often a favored damage type of undead hunters, as skeletal undead (e.g. skeletons) tend to have 50% immunity to other physical damage types, but not to bludgeoning damage.

Does undead take slashing damage?

Again, zombies don’t care about fractures and cracks. Slashing works on them because, put simply, you’re hacking off their limbs. You are physically rendering them unable to continue combat, essentially.

Does Rage half damage?

JC: Rage gives you resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage—no matter the source of that damage.

Can a magical weapon still do bludgeoning damage?

Magical weapons still deal bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage; becoming magic doesn’t make them stop doing that, which you kind of imply. – KRyan Jul 25 ’16 at 16:19 No, you do imply it: “In 5e, unless the weapon is magical, it deals either bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage.”

Do you get a plate for bludgeoning and slashing?

D&D don’t give plate a bonus against slashing and a penalty against blunt… too much book keeping. I wish there was a blanket term for all three, though. Like “Physical” or something similar. Resistance to “Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing from non-magical” becomes an eyesore after a while…

What kind of damage does bludgeoning do to skeletons?

Skeletons are vulnerable to Bludgeoning damage and some oozes have abilities triggered by slashing. Split. When a pudding that is Medium or larger is subjected to lightning or slashing damage, it splits into two new puddings if it has at least 10 hit points.

Do you have resistance to piercing or slashing damage?

I like the idea of armors having resistance or weakness to certain damage type ! However the only* way to have resistance to slashing damage or such is the cursed armor or resistance, which gives you vulnerability to the other 2. Hmm. i could use a skeleton boss with piercing resist armor.