Thread: Damage reduction.
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November 18th, 2021, 17:49 #21
You can do this with Better Combat Effect https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/76/view
Interception Fighting Style; DMGR: 1d10+2 all
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December 1st, 2021, 20:25 #22
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I have a related question.
I am trying to add Damage Reduction (not resistance) to an NPC (instead of a character). I have tried many different ways and nothing is working so far. Is there a way to do this and if so where do I add it and in what format?
Thank you
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December 1st, 2021, 21:03 #23
Add a trait called Damage Threshold and make sure that there's a number in the description. More details here https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...Damage-Thresho
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December 1st, 2021, 21:57 #24
You can use the EXT Better Combat Effects I've found is best fix for this. The listed one above does not do DR at all, its totally different system. It's DT which means that a mob has to do X dmg more than the DT number before taking ALL the damage. Example would be DT is 10, if something does 9 damage to something with DT 10, it would do 0 damage, but if something were to do 11 damage to something with DT 10, it would do 11 damage.
BCE (Better Combat Effects) allows a code called DMGR: x dmgtype. Which would reduce the damage to anything with that code on it.
Example would be.
DMGR: 3 fire
Anything that did fire damage to that target it would reduce the damage by 3 fire. So say something hit it with 10 piercing and 7 fire damage, it would reduce the damage to 10 piercing, and 4 fire.
If something were to do 10 piercing damage to something with DMGR: 3 fire, it would do 10 piercing with no reduction.
Good example of this coding would be for HAM (Heavy Armor Mastery) which is NOT resistance so SW wants us to doCode:RESIST: 3 piercing, slashing, bludgeoning, !magic
So the HAM coding with the BCE ext would beCode:DMGR: 3 piercing, slashing, bludgeoning, !magic
Maybe one day SW will put in the correct damage reduction coding.Last edited by MrDDT; December 2nd, 2021 at 03:42.
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December 1st, 2021, 23:40 #25
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December 2nd, 2021, 01:36 #26
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December 5th, 2021, 23:51 #28
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There's a lot of effects that reduce damage. Most of them based on dice rolls, but a few have other ways to determine it. The Heavy Armor Master that was mentioned already is one of the most common, but also the Monk's ability to catch arrows is handled as a damage reduction effect, so is the interception fighting style, the monk's slow fall, the abjurer's arcane ward (which is NOT temp hp and it is supposed to prevent concentration checks), bladsinger wizards song of defence, bard's cutting words, Goliath racial ability of stone endurance, etc. There's maybe 25 of them now.
The coding issue that MrDDT is referring to is related to this example of how to handle both resistance and reduction from the Players Handbook:
a creature has resistance to bludgeoning damage and is hit by an attack that deals 25 bludgeoning damage. The creature is also within a magical aura that reduces all damage by 5. The 25 damage is first reduced by 5 and then halved, so the creature takes 10 damage.
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