The spell captures some of the incoming energy, lessening its effect on you and storing it for your next melee attack. You have resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn. Also, the first time you hit with a melee attack on your next turn, the target takes an extra 1d6 damage of the triggering type, and the spell ends.
This is what it says. So... what does it mean?
The first sentence says it lessens it's effect, but not how? Does it absorb the 1d6 damage that it can deal out later, or does it halve the damage with resistance.
The spell is cast as a Reaction - so does the Wizard get resistance on the triggering attack too? The second sentence seems to indicate it grants resistance on subsequent damage until the start of your next turn... what about this turn?
And you deal the damage only with a melee attack? What they hay? But if I get incoming damaged halved, I'll take it. But it doesn't seem that I do for that first incoming attack...
I can read this at least 3 ways. Hmm - hence this forum. ;-P
The first sentence says it lessens it's effect, but not how?
By giving you resistance.
The spell is cast as a Reaction - so does the Wizard get resistance on the triggering attack too? The second sentence seems to indicate it grants resistance on subsequent damage until the start of your next turn... what about this turn?
Yes. That's why the first sentence says it lessens the effects.
It certainly could've been more explicit, like the Shield spell, but if you don't overthink it it's still fairly straightforward.
In general, none of the sentences in the rules stand on their own. You'll find many places where the meaning of a sentence relies on context established earlier in the same paragraph or section of the book it's in. For example, reading the last sentence of [Tooltip Not Found] gives the impression that it causes all spells to treat the target if as they had a different type, but the sentence right before it says it fools spells that detect creature types specifically.
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The spell captures some of the incoming energy, lessening its effect on you and storing it for your next melee attack. You have resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn. Also, the first time you hit with a melee attack on your next turn, the target takes an extra 1d6 damage of the triggering type, and the spell ends.
This is what it says. So... what does it mean?
And you deal the damage only with a melee attack? What they hay? But if I get incoming damaged halved, I'll take it. But it doesn't seem that I do for that first incoming attack...
I can read this at least 3 ways. Hmm - hence this forum. ;-P
By giving you resistance.
Yes. That's why the first sentence says it lessens the effects.
Cool! That just makes so much sense. I guess they can't be super clear in every single sentence, right?
It certainly could've been more explicit, like the Shield spell, but if you don't overthink it it's still fairly straightforward.
In general, none of the sentences in the rules stand on their own. You'll find many places where the meaning of a sentence relies on context established earlier in the same paragraph or section of the book it's in. For example, reading the last sentence of [Tooltip Not Found] gives the impression that it causes all spells to treat the target if as they had a different type, but the sentence right before it says it fools spells that detect creature types specifically.