Difference between revisions of "Resistance Revamped (3.5e Variant Rule)"
m |
m |
||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
=== Sliding Scale of Vulnerability, Resistance and Immunity. === | === Sliding Scale of Vulnerability, Resistance and Immunity. === | ||
| − | [[SRD:Resistance to Energy|Resistance to energy]] now comes in ranks | + | [[SRD:Resistance to Energy|Resistance to energy]] now comes in ranks. |
*'''Rank -2 — Vulnerable:''' You take 200% damage from the energy type. You can't get more vulnerable than this. | *'''Rank -2 — Vulnerable:''' You take 200% damage from the energy type. You can't get more vulnerable than this. | ||
| Line 23: | Line 23: | ||
*'''Rank 5 — Immune++:''' You take a shitton of no damage from the energy type. | *'''Rank 5 — Immune++:''' You take a shitton of no damage from the energy type. | ||
| − | Basically, rank 4 or 5 (and possibly 6, 7, etcetera) are there to show how overresistant a creature can be, and that resistance can be overcome. For instance, spells and effects that confer resistance or immunity instead grant one or more ranks of resistance, and especially strong varieties of a specific damage type, such as | + | In addition to this, a creature that possesses rank 1 or higher resistance to an energy type ignores up to 5 points of damage of the energy type per rank, which is applied ''after'' the reduction. This ignores rank-reducing effects such as fire damage stemming from special sources like hellfire. |
| + | |||
| + | ''Example 1:'' A creature with rank 1 fire resistance will halve all incoming fire damage and then reduce it by 5 points. As such, it is unaffected by any source of fire dealing 10 or less fire damage. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Example 2:'' A creature with rank 2 fire resistance will quarter all incoming fire damage and then reduce it by 10 points. As such, it is unaffected by any source of fire dealing 40 or less damage. | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Example 3:'' A [[SRD:Large Fire Elemental|fire elemental]] has rank 4 fire resistance, making it effectively strongly immune. However, ''hellfire'' has a very strong rank-reducing effect due to its highly corrosive nature. Reducing the fire elemental's resistance by 3 ranks, hellfire deals half damage to the elemental. However, due to its native rank 4 resistance, the damage is then reduced by 20 points. A hellfire warlock would need to do more than 40 points of damage with a single attack to hurt the fire elemental. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Basically, rank 4 or 5 (and possibly 6, 7, etcetera) are there to show how overresistant a creature can be, and that that resistance can still be overcome with enough awesome. For instance, spells and effects that confer resistance or immunity instead grant one or more ranks of resistance, and especially strong varieties of a specific damage type, such as the hellfire used in the above example, will no longer nix immunity altogether but rather reduce the affected creature's resistance to fire by one or more ranks. | ||
| + | |||
=== Suggested Changes to Existing Source Material === | === Suggested Changes to Existing Source Material === | ||
| Line 33: | Line 42: | ||
*Creatures that have [[SRD:Resistance to Energy|resistance]] of 5 or more to an energy type instead have rank 1 resistance against that energy type. A creature with a resistance of 30 or more instead has rank 2 resistance against that energy type. | *Creatures that have [[SRD:Resistance to Energy|resistance]] of 5 or more to an energy type instead have rank 1 resistance against that energy type. A creature with a resistance of 30 or more instead has rank 2 resistance against that energy type. | ||
*Creatures that are immune to a specific type of energy have at least rank 3 resistance against that energy type. If the creature also has the corresponding subtype (i.e. [[SRD:Fire Subtype|Fire]]), or is made of the energy in question, it has at least rank 4 resistance against that energy type. | *Creatures that are immune to a specific type of energy have at least rank 3 resistance against that energy type. If the creature also has the corresponding subtype (i.e. [[SRD:Fire Subtype|Fire]]), or is made of the energy in question, it has at least rank 4 resistance against that energy type. | ||
| + | |||
=== Resistances to other types of effect? === | === Resistances to other types of effect? === | ||
Revision as of 23:41, 28 September 2015
 | |||||||||
| |||||||||
 | |||||||||
|
Rate this article Discuss this article | |||||||||
Contents
Resistance Revamped
In my years of making homebrew and playing with said homebrew I've found that the schism between resistance and immunity to something is massively huge, and at the same time there have been popping up a great number of special and super powerful variants of a certain damage type that partially or fully ignore immunity of that damage type, like hellfire and hellfrost, against which resistance is completely useless. And as a result of that, stuff like True Immunity started popping up to combat all of these super special energy types that bypass resistance and immunity which will no doubt prompt the creation of super duper ultra special forms of the already super special type of energy that bypasses even that and my head is starting to hurt just writing the introduction to this page because it's getting a little stupid.
Sliding Scale of Vulnerability, Resistance and Immunity.
Resistance to energy now comes in ranks.
- Rank -2 — Vulnerable: You take 200% damage from the energy type. You can't get more vulnerable than this.
- Rank -1 — Susceptible: You take 150% damage from the energy type.
- Rank 0 — Normal: You take 100% damage from the energy type.
- Rank 1 — Resistant: You take 50% damage from the energy type.
- Rank 2 — Protected: You take 25% damage from the energy type.
- Rank 3 — Immune: You take no damage from the energy type.
- Rank 4 — Immune+: You take even more no damage from the energy type.
- Rank 5 — Immune++: You take a shitton of no damage from the energy type.
In addition to this, a creature that possesses rank 1 or higher resistance to an energy type ignores up to 5 points of damage of the energy type per rank, which is applied after the reduction. This ignores rank-reducing effects such as fire damage stemming from special sources like hellfire.
Example 1: A creature with rank 1 fire resistance will halve all incoming fire damage and then reduce it by 5 points. As such, it is unaffected by any source of fire dealing 10 or less fire damage.
Example 2: A creature with rank 2 fire resistance will quarter all incoming fire damage and then reduce it by 10 points. As such, it is unaffected by any source of fire dealing 40 or less damage.
Example 3: A fire elemental has rank 4 fire resistance, making it effectively strongly immune. However, hellfire has a very strong rank-reducing effect due to its highly corrosive nature. Reducing the fire elemental's resistance by 3 ranks, hellfire deals half damage to the elemental. However, due to its native rank 4 resistance, the damage is then reduced by 20 points. A hellfire warlock would need to do more than 40 points of damage with a single attack to hurt the fire elemental.
Basically, rank 4 or 5 (and possibly 6, 7, etcetera) are there to show how overresistant a creature can be, and that that resistance can still be overcome with enough awesome. For instance, spells and effects that confer resistance or immunity instead grant one or more ranks of resistance, and especially strong varieties of a specific damage type, such as the hellfire used in the above example, will no longer nix immunity altogether but rather reduce the affected creature's resistance to fire by one or more ranks.
Suggested Changes to Existing Source Material
- Resist energy confers a +1 enhancement bonus to the target(s) resistance rank against the chosen energy type.
- Energy immunitySpC confers a +3 enhancement bonus to the target's resistance rank against the chosen energy type.
- Protection from energy confers an effective +5 enhancement bonus to the target's resistance rank against the chosen energy type, but it disappears once 10 points of damage per caster level are absorbed by the spell (max. 100). Damage for this purpose is calculated as per the target's original resistance rank.
- Creatures that have vulnerability to an energy type instead have rank -1 resistance against that energy type.
- Creatures that have resistance of 5 or more to an energy type instead have rank 1 resistance against that energy type. A creature with a resistance of 30 or more instead has rank 2 resistance against that energy type.
- Creatures that are immune to a specific type of energy have at least rank 3 resistance against that energy type. If the creature also has the corresponding subtype (i.e. Fire), or is made of the energy in question, it has at least rank 4 resistance against that energy type.
Resistances to other types of effect?
Work in progress. Wanna see a specific type of resistance. Feel free to write something on this article's talk page.
Back to Main Page → 3.5e Homebrew → Variant Rules
