| hrmilo |
Most bleed abilities explicitly state if they take effect in successive rounds.
The general Bleed condition description makes that point seem to stick that bleeding take effect each successive round.
But the Bleeding Attack and Boar Style feats seem to indicate the bleed damage is only taken on the attack and not in successive rounds.
And, the Boar Ferocity feat explicitly states bleed damage occurring in successive rounds.
So I am taking it that Bleeding Attack and Boar Style feats only do bleed on the attack, not successively. BUUUUTTT, why call it bleed damage at all then???? Except maybe to bypass DR ?
Further, would it be that two attacks both do Bleeding Attack +1d4 bleed damage AND the Boar Style feat then do 2d6 bleed damage on top of that because the two attack requisite was met? Would this be considered stacking the bleed damage?
Anyone else care to make an argument?
| Kazaan |
The damage from multiple sources of bleed doesn't stack, but that doesn't mean you don't have multiple sources of bleed damage. Some simplify this to the point that, if you get hit with 1d4, 1d6, and 1d8 bleed, you only roll the 1d8. This is technically as wrong as getting a crit and just rolling your weapon damage once and multiplying the value by 2 (or higher if you use a higher crit weapon). If you have the aforementioned bleed values, you roll all 3 values and take the highest value that you roll as damage. If you roll 4 on the d4, 2 on the d6, and 3 on the d8, you take 4 damage (from the d4). Stacking multiple sources of bleed gives you additional chances to "roll high" just as getting a crit gives you multiple chances to "roll high" for your damage dice.