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Prerequisite: Barbarian 8, dragon totem rage power
Benefit: While raging, the barbarian gains resistance to the energy type that is associated with her dragon totem—acid (black, copper, green), cold (silver, white), electricity (blue, bronze), or fire (brass, gold, red). This resistance equals double her current DR/— from her barbarian damage reduction class feature; this DR increases by 2 for each dragon totem rage power she possesses, including this one.
Bolded section is the one that's catching me -- does this mean that the barbarian's total damage reduction increases due to this rage power, or the value equal to her DR that is used to determine her energy resistance?
An example: Mazali is a LV8 barbarian. Her rage powers are animal fury, intimidating glare, dragon totem, and the recently-acquired dragon totem resilience. She proudly support DR 1/--, even when not raging. When combat starts and she rages, dragon totem resilience kicks in, but what benefits does it give her precisely?
Does her DR increase to DR 5/-- (because "her current DR/-- [...] increases by 2 for each dragon totem rage power she possesses") and she gain energy resistance 10?
Does her DR stay at 1/--, but she still gains energy resistance 10 (DR 1/-- becomes "DR", where ["DR"+4]x2 = energy resistance)?
Help me get my head around this, please.
we don't know. If you search the forums you'll see this questions is asked quite a bit
You know, I should have started by searching for it in the rules forums rather than starting a new thread. I'll have to remember it for the next time I get a question.
Damn. Bummed that there's no answer to it yet, but at least I'm glad to know I'm not the only one having trouble with it.
technically, resistance is just another kind of DR, so it's easy for someone to make the typo.