TOPIC: Melee damage

Does most damage in combat have a sub class of melee? Or will it only be melee dam? Like I got swated at one year for “moist” damage but the thing made physical contact with me so I would also classify this as melee.

Thanks

"Moist" is definitely an unofficial damage subtype.

Melee can often be divided into bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing. There can also be elemental effects (Fire, Cold, Shock) or others (Darkrift, Poison, Sonic, Sacred, Eldritch, Acid)

Wade answered your question, but let me address some practical matters:

1. There are no tokens or rules that convey special defensive bonuses for players against any given melee sub type of bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage (there are general DR tokens/rules and melee specific DR tokens/rules).

This means as a player, until it comes up, all melee damage is equivalent.

2. I think monsters caring about melee damage subtype is very rare. There was one year where some kind of plant creature was immune to bludgeoning damage which vexed Clerics and Monks, I haven't heard about it since and that was probably 7 years ago now.

I get the different types of damage but I’m trying to finish up my char builds and I had melee mitigation on a few guys and was trying to think if I ever remembered getting hit with just straight melee damage.
Like take our characters attacking them with a sword and with all of our gear we have added fire damage to it. Is the damage that we deal fire/melee or is it specifically broke down. And then is the monsters damage kinda the same way

Like I said I’m just trying to finish up builds and just trying to gauge how much mitigation , melee in particular, is worth it. It always seems like the traps or puzzles are an element or Eldritch and if the damage from the enemies is also elemental then I was just thinking of swapping out the melee mitigation tokens

Thanks

Steven wrote: I get the different types of damage but I’m trying to finish up my char builds and I had melee mitigation on a few guys and was trying to think if I ever remembered getting hit with just straight melee damage.
Like take our characters attacking them with a sword and with all of our gear we have added fire damage to it. Is the damage that we deal fire/melee or is it specifically broke down. And then is the monsters damage kinda the same way

Like I said I’m just trying to finish up builds and just trying to gauge how much mitigation , melee in particular, is worth it. It always seems like the traps or puzzles are an element or Eldritch and if the damage from the enemies is also elemental then I was just thinking of swapping out the melee mitigation tokens

Thanks

Dms don't generally describe the damage types.

Either ask, or use your best judgement.

If they say "it's melee fire damage" then I'd feel free to apply the sum of my melee and fire DRs to the attack.

Well if they don’t announce then that would be why I never remembered hearing it.
Thank you this has been helpful for my final decisions

If you ever need to know if damage taken was melee, ranged or spell for applications of damage resistance just politely ask the DM. Most combat DMs are trying to set the scene for you and sometimes use creative ways of describing the damage to you rather than just saying "you are hit in melee"

Acherin wrote: If you ever need to know if damage taken was melee, ranged or spell for applications of damage resistance just politely ask the DM. Most combat DMs are trying to set the scene for you and sometimes use creative ways of describing the damage to you rather than just saying "you are hit in melee"

I, for one, loved hearing you repeatedly call it “moist damage”. I giggled every time.

jpotter wrote:

Acherin wrote: If you ever need to know if damage taken was melee, ranged or spell for applications of damage resistance just politely ask the DM. Most combat DMs are trying to set the scene for you and sometimes use creative ways of describing the damage to you rather than just saying "you are hit in melee"

I, for one, loved hearing you repeatedly call it “moist damage”. I giggled every time.

+1

Excuse me Mr. DM can you tell me if the attack was moist?

Does it turn to wet damage the second time your hit?

Steven wrote: Does it turn to wet damage the second time your hit?

I think it goes from Moust to Humid, but that's just me.