Storm-Touched Trait Literally Useless?


Rules Questions

Grand Lodge

8 people marked this as FAQ candidate.

One of the traits in Ultimate Campaign doesn't seem to work as written:

PRD wrote:

Storm-Touched

You share an affinity with elemental lightning. You gain DR 1/— against creatures and attacks with the electricity type

Other than a couple monsters in the 3rd party Tome of Horrors, I can't find any creatures with the electricity subtype.

As for "attacks with the electricity type" ... isn't electricity damage energy damage? Energy damage bypasses Damage Reduction.

So is this supposed to be 1 point of energy resistance to electricity? Or is this feat really totally useless?

Grand Lodge

Bump?


Looks to me like it bypasses the normal rule for DR and actually grants you damage resistance against electrical (energy) damage - which would be a minor benefit since it should then feasibly stack with energy resistance (one is DR, the other is ER).

The Exchange

Wow, that is an odd one. Hah! Even lightning elementals don't have such a subtype!

Is that trait new to Ultimate Campaign or is it one of the re-prints from elsewhere?


I would assume it should be "air subtype".

Dark Archive

Necro-bump.
Was this ever resolved anyplace?

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