Questions tagged [immunities]
For questions about the scope or function of an immunity to something within an RPG system. Generally, an immunity is a defensive ability that protects completely against a certain kind of harmful or potentially harmful thing.
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Homebrew Parchment Golem monster v1.2
This is a continuation of my first attempt to get a review of a monster stat block. If I'm doing something wrong, let me know.
Homebrew Parchment Golem monster
My goal for this creature is to be a ...
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Can a creature be targeted by future uses of eyebite if they are immune to the initial casting?
The party is fighting a masked assassin, and the wizard, wanting to question the assassin, casts Eyebite and attempts to use the Asleep effect. However, the assassin was an elf, and is thus immune to ...
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Does Fatal and/or Deadly apply when attacking a critical hit-immune target?
Critical hit immunity specifies
Immunity to critical hits works a little differently. When a creature immune to critical hits is critically hit by a Strike or other attack that deals damage, it takes ...
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I'm worried about nerfing the Players too much by adding an immunity to Radiant Damage to a monster type
In my setting most of the Outer Planes have individually suffered apocalyptic catastrophes.
The Abyss has been, for several decades before the players even see their first demon, beset by chronic ...
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Will a creature with damage immunity take damage from Phantasmal Force?
Phantasmal Force can create the illusion of a creature or phenomoenon, and will deal 1d6 psychic damage per round because of the victim believes that it is real.
What will happen if you create the ...
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Can a player's damage immunity be balanced out when paired with a vulnerability?
Would it be balanced to allow a player to be a race which from 1st level had immunity to an elemental damage type (example: fire), but was paired with a vulnerability to another damage type (example: ...
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Can Tiamat's breath weapons pass through a non-upcast Wall of Force?
The party will eventually be facing Tiamat, as an end-of-campaign event. At the present time, they are considering the effectiveness of wall of force as a defensive barrier against her.
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Is Insubstantial 3 and 4 meant to guard against Affliction?
I recently had a player ask me if their Incorporeal hero would be affected by the cold weather around him. My initial thought was that the power protected against all effects of physical or energy ...
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What happens if a creature has both damage absorption and vulnerability?
For example, a grave domain cleric gives an Iron Golem vulnerability to all damage, and someone else deals fire damage to the golem. Will the golem be healed for twice the amount it normally would be, ...
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Magic weapons being given to NPCs because I am immune to nonmagical weapon attacks
I'm playing a tiefling path of the totem warrior barbarian (my totem is bear) in D&D 5E and due to backstory reasons I have been given a feat called Skin of the Myrmidon.
Skin of the Myrmidon
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What in the lore makes Krakens immune to lightning?
I don't understand, thematically, why a sea creature would be immune to lightning. Where exactly does a Kraken gain its immunity to lightning from? My players are going to fight a Kraken soon and I'd ...
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Does a creature immune to all magic have immunity to +1 Weapons? [closed]
We were fighting a magic creature, and it was immune to all magic attacks. I have a +1 shortsword, but the DM said that it had no effect on the creature since it's a magic weapon.
Is this correct? ...
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Does a Rakshasa take damage from the damage bonus granted by an Evocation wizard's Empowered Evocation feature?
The Rakshasa has the Limited Magic Immunity trait:
Limited Magic Immunity. The rakshasa can't be affected or detected by spells of 6th level or lower unless it wishes to be. [...]
As noted in this Q&...
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Does partial immunity to fear disqualify one for Craven?
The feat Craven (Champions of Ruin 17) gives a character -2 to saves vs. fear effects, and requires that the character "cannot be immune to fear." This question discusses how immunity to ...
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What is the significance of the errata that removed the Artillerist artificer's Eldritch Cannon's immunity to conditions?
When Eberron: Rising from the Last War was published in November 2019, the version of the Artillerist artificer published in it originally contained this line (p. 59):
It is immune to poison damage, ...
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What cleric and wizard spells can I use to maximize my immunities?
I'm currently trying to maximize the amount of things my character is immune to. My current situation is:
Aasimar/Lesser Aasimar/Saint.
Bard 1/Sha'ir 1/Geomancer 2/Incantatrix 3/Ur Priest 1/Mystic ...
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Is a ghoul immune vs roadroach attacks?
Ghouls are immune vs radiation damage and roadroaches deal just that. Does that now mean the ghoul takes NO damage? Or does it mean the ghoul takes damage but the radiation effect does not come into ...
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Can a Pyromancer Sorcerer deal fire damage to a creature under the effect of Invulnerability?
Can a Pyromancer Sorcerer deal fire damage to a creature that is under the effect of Invulnerability?
The spell Invulnerability (XGtE) states:
You are immune to all damage until the spell ends.
The ...
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What ways are there to damage or reduce the hit points of a creature who is under the effect of the Invulnerability spell?
The spell 'Invulnerability (XGtE)' states:
You are immune to all damage until the spell ends.
Are there any items/abilities/spells/etc. that can be used to bypass this immunity while the spell is ...
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Сan a creature that is immune to fear be under the effects of Madness?
Сan a creature that is immune to fear be under the effects of Madness?
For example, can a creature under a Heroism spell be under the effect of Madness?
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Does the Life Bubble spell protect against the Irradiate spell and areas of radiation?
The life bubble spell in Pathfinder 1E gives the following immunities to its targets:
This shell enables the subjects to breathe freely, even underwater or in a vacuum, as well as making them immune ...
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Vorpal Sword versus Armor of Invulnerability
The rules for a Vorpal Sword include
When you attack a creature that has at least one head with this weapon and roll a 20 on the attack roll, you cut off one of the creature’s heads. The creature ...
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How many condition immunities can a player character amass?
How many condition immunities can a player character amass?
Answers should follow most of the same specifications detailed in the question: How many damage types can a player character become immune ...
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How many damage types can a player character become immune to?
Reading about Werewolves, which are immune to "Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered", I wondered: How many damage types can a PC become immune to?
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Overpowered pyromancer (Kaladesh) nuking the battlefield for the lulz: fixing our Icewind Dale campaign [closed]
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We're starting an Icewind Dale campaign with level 15'ish characters we've built up through 4 previous campaigns. The team is concerned that one player (pyromancer, Roy "Trogdor" ...
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Spellthief, Steal spell and Sneak attack immunity
Simple question. It's never clear if you can use the Steal Spell feature of the SpellThief on targets immunised to Sneak Attack.
Since you have to trigger a Sneak Attack in order to be able to trade ...
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RAW, are undead and constructs affected by disease? [duplicate]
I can't find any information on constructs or undead having a disease immunity. The Contagion spell gives diseases. Could someone, RAW, cast Contagion on a stone golem, for example, and give it ...
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Does the Mind Blank spell protect against the secondary effects of the Tasha's Mind Whip spell?
The description of the mind blank spell says:
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch is immune to psychic damage, any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, ...
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When extra damage dice are listed in a critical effect, do they apply to crit-immune targets?
In the immunity rules, we read:
Immunity to critical hits works a little differently. When a creature immune to critical hits is critically hit by a Strike or other attack that deals damage, it takes ...
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How do Aura of Devotion and Beguiling Twist interact?
At level 7, the Fey Wanderer ranger gets a feature called Beguiling Twist. The relevant part reads:
Whenever you or a creature you can see within 120 feet of you succeeds on a saving throw against ...
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As a Werewolf who is immune to non-magic physical damage, can Swarm of Rot Grubs get past my skin
I'm a part of a homebrew setting 5e game where the real homebrew, outside of lore, is only custom monsters that are rarely made by the DM as he prefers to use normal D&D monsters when he can. In ...
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Does the silence spell have an effect on a Rakshasa?
Does the silence spell work on a Rakshasa?
I know that Rakshasa can't be affected by spells of 6th level or lower ... but does that apply to spell with verbal components, or in a case where it does ...
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Is there a monster that has resistance to magical attacks on top of immunity against nonmagical attacks?
I was wondering if there is an official monster in 5th edition that has resistance against any combination of bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage and an immunity against any combination of ...
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Can you apply Hex damage when the target is immune to the initial damage?
The Warlock is fighting a Ochre Jelly. On his turn, he cast Hex on the Jelly as a bonus action, then hits it with his Short sword. The Ochre Jelly is immune to the slashing damage, so the attack ...
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Does the Pyromancer sorcerer's Fiery Soul feature totally bypass immunity to fire damage?
The Pyromancer sorcerous origin from Plane Shift: Kaladesh has a feature called Fiery Soul:
At 18th level, you gain immunity to fire damage. In addition, any spell or effect you create ignores ...
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Does the Pyromancer sorcerer's Fiery Soul feature work with the Elemental Adept feat (fire damage) to effectively ignore immunity as well?
The Pyromancer sorcerous origin from Plane Shift: Kaladesh gains the Fiery Soul feature at 18th level. Part of its description says:
[...] any spell or effect you create ignores resistance to fire ...
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Whats the most unkillable, immortal character possible pre-epic in D&D 3.5? [closed]
I'm trying to make a character that's as unkillable as possible without the use of epic feats or Wish cheese. Preferably I'd like to stay away from things like Pun Pun that just do everything and gain ...
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Are there any other ways for lycanthropes to hurt other lycanthropes?
As written, lycanthropes cannot damage one another as they have immunity to non-silvered, non-magic attacks and their stack block attacks are exclusively of these types (and see: Can a Werewolf ...
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Does immunity to piercing damage make you immune to the pull effect of the Thorn Whip spell?
The description of the thorn whip cantrip says:
You create a long, vine-like whip covered in thorns that lashes out at your command toward a creature in range. Make a melee spell attack against the ...
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Are creatures that are immune to disease unaffected by the Harm spell?
The Harm spell, flavourfully, states it creates a virulent disease:
You unleash a virulent disease on a creature that you can see within range.
It later calls out that
Any effect that removes a ...
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If a fear-immune creature's immunity is removed by a Draconic Malice spell and it becomes panicked, what happens when it leaves the spell's aura?
If I have an active Draconic Malice spell taking away the fear immunity of all creatures around me, and say I inflict the Panicked condition for 20 rounds on a paladin in my aura. The paladin then ...
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If you save to become immune to a creature's trait/ability, are you immune to that trait/ability from all such creatures?
So a Pit Fiend has a neat little thing called a fear aura. Essentially if you start in it, you have to make a save or be frightened. We know from a related question that the rules for combining ...
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What are all the ways that stacking resistance becomes immunity by RAW?
In this supplement for Rise of Tiamat, on page 4, the properties of the "dragon mask" magic items are described, including this property (bold emphasis mine):
Damage Absorption. You have ...
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Do creatures immune to poison still make saving throws?
At 11th level, monks gain immunity to poison. The Poison Healer feat lets you restore hit points when you "succeed on a Fortitude save against a poison". Can monks chug poison to heal themselves, or ...
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Does gaining immunity to a condition apply immediately to a current condition?
What happens when a creature gains immunity to a condition while it currently has that condition? (For a list of conditions see Rules Compendium 229–35.)
For example, the level 6 battlemind daily ...
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Are there any abilities or magic items that allow weapon attacks to ignore damage immunity?
DnDBeyond recently released a League of Legends themed adventure that introduces new unofficial subclasses that, while certainly interesting, pose some serious balance ramifications.
One of the ...
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Does the Iron Flask magic item work on a creature that is immune to the charmed condition?
The description of the iron flask magic item states, in part:
You can use an action to remove the flask's stopper and release the creature the flask contains. The creature is friendly to you and ...
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How can I become immune to fall damage?
How can I become immune to fall damage?
I don’t mean things like feather fall that slow your descent or flight that prevents it from happening altogether; I'm more looking for an option that lets you ...
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Can a 6th level monk choose to not deal magical damage with unarmed strikes?
In my campaign we have a 6th level monk. She has:
Ki-Empowered Strikes
Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical ...
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Does Blood in the Water work if I score a critical hit on something immune to critical hits?
Blood in the Water (Tome of Battle, p. 86) states:
While you are in this stance, you whip yourself into a terrible rage. When you score a critical hit against an opponent, you enter a near frenzied ...
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