A monster's has a physical attack that does piercing or slashing damage that also does poison damage, if a character has a feature that reduces the attacks damage, as an example say a Goliath character with "Stone's Endurance", and it reduces the physical attack's damage to 0, would the poison damage then not occur, since the physical attack did not actually create a wound for the poison to be introduced into?
With this kind of thing it's often a good idea to remember that D&D (at least, 5e D&D) generally runs on a "things only do what they say they do" principle. If the attack doesn't say that the poison damage is contingent on the physical damage happening, then it isn't.
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A monster's has a physical attack that does piercing or slashing damage that also does poison damage, if a character has a feature that reduces the attacks damage, as an example say a Goliath character with "Stone's Endurance", and it reduces the physical attack's damage to 0, would the poison damage then not occur, since the physical attack did not actually create a wound for the poison to be introduced into?
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ModeratorPoison damage doesn't inherently require a wound, as evidenced by the fact that there are attacks that deal solely poison damage.
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With this kind of thing it's often a good idea to remember that D&D (at least, 5e D&D) generally runs on a "things only do what they say they do" principle. If the attack doesn't say that the poison damage is contingent on the physical damage happening, then it isn't.
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