Is non-lethal damage HP damage?

[Chess Pwn]

The protector familiar gets the ability that,
"whenever a protector or its master takes hit point damage, as long as the protector and its master are touching, its master can choose to split the damage evenly between them as if using shield other."

So I'm curious if non-lethal counts so they'll split the non-lethal or if non-lethal doesn't count.

I think I'm leaning to it doesn't count, but I want to double check.

[Jurassic Pratt]

I would think not since nonlethal damage doesn't subtract from your hitpoints.

[GM Rednal]

I believe the text in question is...

Quote:

Nonlethal: Nonlethal damage is typically dealt by blunt natural attacks such as fists. Unlike weapon or natural attacks, nonlethal damage does not reduce a creatures current hit points (hp) but instead is tracked separately. When the amount of nonlethal damage a creature has taken equals its current hit points it gains the staggered condition. When the amount of nonlethal damage a creature has taken exceeds its current hit points it gains the unconscious condition. Nonlethal damage is healed (recovered) much more quickly than hit point (hp) damage.

The last sentence in particular seems to make it clear that nonlethal damage is not hit point damage.

[Glorf Fei-Hung]

GM Rednal wrote:

I believe the text in question is...

Quote:

Nonlethal: Nonlethal damage is typically dealt by blunt natural attacks such as fists. Unlike weapon or natural attacks, nonlethal damage does not reduce a creatures current hit points (hp) but instead is tracked separately. When the amount of nonlethal damage a creature has taken equals its current hit points it gains the staggered condition. When the amount of nonlethal damage a creature has taken exceeds its current hit points it gains the unconscious condition. Nonlethal damage is healed (recovered) much more quickly than hit point (hp) damage.

The last sentence in particular seems to make it clear that nonlethal damage is not hit point damage.

Yep, that seems to make it pretty much cut and dry to me, Non-Lethal Dmg ≠ Hit Point Dmg.

[Imbicatus]

Unless you have more nonlethal damage than total HP, inn which case it's converted to ho damage as it's applied.

[Chess Pwn]

cool. Just like I thought.