So pretty much works on everything except poison, psychic, and radiant?  

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So pretty much works on everything except poison, psychic, and radiant?  

 And bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, force, and necrotic.

Say you have natural resistance to an elemental damage type (like a Genasi) and you use this spell on top of it. Would you have wasted the spell or would the double resistance superpose into a single round of immunity?

resistance ONLY

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Say you have natural resistance to an elemental damage type (like a Genasi) and you use this spell on top of it. Would you have wasted the spell or would the double resistance superpose into a single round of immunity?

 You either have resistance or you don't; there's no such thing as double resistance in the official rules. Getting resistance to the same damage type from two different sources still just means you have resistance, and when you have resistance you take half damage. So yes, it would be a wasted spell (assuming you don't have any use for the extra damage on your melee attack).

To upgrade this ability you have to use the spell : Beelzebub elementalus 

Why doesn't this spell work against poison damage? Isn't poison also considered elemental?

I am using this spell but since I didn't read the description our party just thought it absorbs and element and if I succeeded I absorb the element making fire go out, kill a tree, ect, but then I'd be able to use the element I absorb, I failed really bad once and made a radios of dead plants like a radios of 30ft. So me not reading the description made a brand new spell, good thing I can say that I totally meant to do that and say it's home brew. Has anyone else accidentally made home brew?

Hey all curious if there is a ruling on how this would be effective with none damaging spells like fairy fire or with potions being thrown at it is that considered a type of energy

O feitiço captura parte da energia recebida, diminuindo seu efeito em você e armazenando-a para seu próximo ataque corpo a corpo. Você tem resistência ao tipo de dano desencadeante até o início de seu próximo turno. Além disso, na primeira vez que você acerta com um ataque corpo a corpo no próximo turno, o alvo sofre 1d6 de dano extra do tipo de ativação e o feitiço termina.

Because sadly there's not water damage in D&D

Am I correct in thinking that you would not be able to use this when being hit with Shocking Grasp?

thought i would ask here as i cannot find anything on this. i am playing an evocation mage atm and another player is a ranger. he has taken absorb elements and i would like to know if i for example used fire ball on him and then used my sculpt spell to stop him from taking damage would he still get the extra damage from absorb elements  or does he need to take damage for the spell to work?.

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thought i would ask here as i cannot find anything on this. i am playing an evocation mage atm and another player is a ranger. he has taken absorb elements and i would like to know if i for example used fire ball on him and then used my sculpt spell to stop him from taking damage would he still get the extra damage from absorb elements  or does he need to take damage for the spell to work?.

 

 The trigger is: * - which you take when you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage

The ranger must take at least 1 point of one of the listed types to use this as a reaction.

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Am I correct in thinking that you would not be able to use this when being hit with Shocking Grasp?

That is correct. Shocking Grasp would hit the target, and the target would be unable to make reactions as part of that spell attack. Since Absorb Elements is a reaction to cast, it isn't possible to cast it in response to the damage from Shocking Grasp.

Depends your DM.  We do that in my campaigns usually.

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does the resistance stack with racial resistance to damage?  If i'm a tiefling, is fire damage then quartered?

 Depends on how your DM handles it.  They may not stack and still just be half.  Which kind of limits the spell for those characters.
Typically in the campaigns I DM, they do stack, so yes it would be quarter damage.

some people do double resistance as immunity which I think is too overpowered.  Remember it should be consistent so if the PCs get this so do NPCs.

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it says "captures some of the incoming energy, lessening its effect" - is it halved or a certain amount less...? Or is it just saying that?

 Grants resistance (so it does half damage)

not against saving throws though

Can you use this to put out a fire?