I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm going ahead anyway. When any barbarian rages, he gets resistance to piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing damage. Am I correct in assuming that it doesn't matter if the source is magical? A magic weapon for instance, would still have to overcome the resistance. It seems like as long as it's not typed differently, the barb would still take half damage.
Just for the sake of curiosity: there’s just a few monsters that resist magical BPS damage. It super rare. That’s why Rage is very special.
Fire and Poison are the most common resistances. Followed by Cold and either Lightning or Acid. Forget which. Everything else gets exceedingly rarer. Particularly once you get past the 4 elemental affinities, poison, and necrotic/radiance.
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm going ahead anyway. When any barbarian rages, he gets resistance to piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing damage. Am I correct in assuming that it doesn't matter if the source is magical? A magic weapon for instance, would still have to overcome the resistance. It seems like as long as it's not typed differently, the barb would still take half damage.
A game element specifically tells you when it has resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing From Nonmagical Attacks. Barbarian's Rage doesn't so it resist those damage regardless of their nature.
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm going ahead anyway. When any barbarian rages, he gets resistance to piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing damage. Am I correct in assuming that it doesn't matter if the source is magical? A magic weapon for instance, would still have to overcome the resistance. It seems like as long as it's not typed differently, the barb would still take half damage.
Correct. A raging barbarian unconditionally resists all bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage; whether it's magical or not makes no difference.
Monsters that resist damage from nonmagical attacks only resist that specific variety of bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage.
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Just for the sake of curiosity: there’s just a few monsters that resist magical BPS damage. It super rare. That’s why Rage is very special.
Fire and Poison are the most common resistances. Followed by Cold and either Lightning or Acid. Forget which. Everything else gets exceedingly rarer. Particularly once you get past the 4 elemental affinities, poison, and necrotic/radiance.
A game element specifically tells you when it has resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing From Nonmagical Attacks. Barbarian's Rage doesn't so it resist those damage regardless of their nature.