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Racial Damage Resistance Replacement

#1 Jan 21, 2026
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All races that get a damage resistance get this instead, for the same damage type:

When you take the elemental damage, you can reduce it by 5. You can only reduce damage in this way once per round.

At 5th level, the reduction increases to 10, and you can reduce it twice, but only once on a turn.

At 11th level, the reduction increases to 15.

At 17th level, you can use this three times per round.

What do you think?

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#3 Jan 21, 2026
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Quote from wagnarokkr >>

It's an interesting idea. This is the way damage resistance worked in 4e, and I have sometimes found myself missing it.

My only recommendation would be to avoid using "per round" language (as official material doesn't use that and it's not super well-defined) and instead say something like "once you use this ability, you can't use it again until the start of your next turn".

I only really did that because it was fast to type. I drew the inspiration from 3e. I like the mechanic, and I feel like it makes more sense for tieflings to have this than resistance

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