Tag: Types

How does the Order of Scribes feature Awakened Spellbook work with multiple damage types?

Awakened Spellbook, a level 3 Order of Scribes feature, says the following:

When you cast a wizard spell with a spell slot, you can temporarily replace its damage type with a type that appears in another spell in your spellbook, which magically alters the spell’s formula for this casting only. The latter spell must be of the same level as the spell slot you expend.

If I cast a spell that deals multiple damage types, for example Ice Knife (https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/ice-knife), how does this work? Could I change both damage types to a different type (for example force damage on initial hit, fire damage on burst) or only the same damage (force damage on both damage rolls). Also, could I switch the two damage types inside the spell, having cold damage on initial hit, and piercing damage on the burst?

How do damage types affect HP?

Played my first game of D&D5e last weekend, and the DM kept referring to different damage types (Necrotic, Slashing, Bludgeoning, etc.).

Do these damage types affect HP differently, or do you just add up each damage type and subtract from the player character’s total HP?

Why specify the different types of damage? Thanks for your help!

Ability system in Unity: Scriptable objects and collections of generic types

I’ve decided to implement an ability system for my game and set the following requirements:

  • Abilities must be MonoBehaviors, that-is, components of Player/NPC gameobjects
  • Abilities must be able to be added/removed at runtime. Instead of all entites having all abilities on their gameobjects that are disabled/enabled, I’d like to dynamically add/remove abilities using AddComponent/Destroy(component)

Given these I’ve implemented the following:

  • Settings classes which inherit from a base AbilitySettings class which is a ScriptableObject. These contain configurable ability settings as well as an enum called AbilityIdentifier which identifies the ability (for example a jump ability would have the identifier AbilityIdentifier.JUMP)

  • IAbility non-generic interface containing a few common ability methods (such as TriggerAbility and CanTrigger)

  • AbstractAbility<T> class which implements IAbility and T is a type that extends AbilitySettings. It implements some of the IAbility methods and defines others as abstract. Actual abilities extend this class.

  • AbilityManager is a MonoBehavior which contains an array of all possible settings for that entity (added through unity editor) and internally contains a dictionary of <AbilityIdentifier, IAbility>. All of the entities abilities are added/removed using the AbilityManager

It looks something like this:

public class AbilityManager : MonoBehavior {     [SerializeField] private AbstractAbilitySettings[] allAbilitiesSettings = { };          private readonly Dictionary<AbilityIdentifier, IAbility> abilities = new Dictionary<AbilityIdentifier, IAbility>();      // Add/remove ability methods }

For example, a jump ability pickup gameobject is set somewhere in the world as a trigger. When the player moves over the pick-up object and OnTriggerEnter is executed. The script on the pick-up object gets the AbilityManager and calls AddAbility(AbilityIdentifier.JUMP)

This sounds good but It’s far from perfect. First of all, I couldn’t figure out an elegant way of creating/removing a component when given the settings class so I’ve added the creation/destruction code to the settings class itself. That-is I’ve added the following abstract methods to AbilitySettings

public abstract IAbility InstantiateAbility(GameObject gameObject);  public abstract void RemoveAbility(GameObject gameObject);

which are then implemented in each of the concrete settings classes like this:

public override IAbility InstantiateAbility(GameObject gameObject) {     JumpAbility ability = gameObject.AddComponent<JumpAbility>();     ability.Settings = this;     return ability; }  public override void RemoveAbility(GameObject gameObject) {     JumpAbility ability = gameObject.GetComponent<JumpAbility>();     Destroy(ability); }

And these methods are called in the AbilityManager like this

public void AddAbility(AbilityIdentifier identifier) {     AbilitySettings abilitySettings = Array.Find(allAbilitiesSettings, s => s.Identifier == identifier);      abilitySettings.InstantiateAbility(gameObject); }

The implementation of InstantiateAbility and RemoveAbility is the same for every single ability, the only difference being the ability type. This is a big smell for me. I can’t make AbilitySettings generic and generify the two methods as these settings are in an array.

My questions are:

  • Adding methods such as InstantiateAbility and RemoveAbility to a scriptable object seems like a code smell to me. Take into account that I’m using the AbilityIdentifier to specify to the manager which ability I want to create. I have thought of perhaps creating an AbilityFactory<T> but since it’s a generic class it can’t be a part of an array/list so I’m facing the same problem I did with the settings. Is there a different way I could handle this without having the code in the scriptable object?

  • Having the implementation of these two methods InstantiateAbility and RemoveAbility be the same for every implementation with the only difference being the type is also a big code smell. Is there any way I can generify this but at the same time avoid problems with the inability of having an array or list of those generic classes?

When a ranged attack deals multiple damage types, can I choose what damage type my Sharpshooter bonus gives?

I am a Blood Hunter (Critical Role class here) with the Sharpshooter and Crossbow Expert feats wielding two hand crossbows. My Crimson Rite allows me to deal an additional 1dx magical damage of some element when I make an attack with a targeted weapon. Sharpshooter simply says that you can add 10 damage to the attack, but it doesn’t specify type. I see a direct comparison to Jeremy Crawford’s ruling on Hunter’s Mark, implying I could choose the damage type of the extra damage. Am I missing some rule that contradicts my assumption?

How does the Fighter’s Interception style work against attacks with multiple damage types? [duplicate]

The Fighter’s Interception fighting style reads:

When a creature you can see hits a target, other than you, within 5 feet of you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage the target takes by 1d10 + your proficiency bonus (to a minimum of 0 damage).

How does this work against attacks that deal more than one type of damage? Does it matter if the extra damage is "gated" behind a failed saving throw?