ER vs enviernmental damage

[ddgon]

So if you have an Elemental Water Sorc who has ER 10 Cold, and said char enters tundra or cold mountan areas, do they take subdual damage? Assume that food and drink is taken care of (ring of Sub). The subdual damage is untyped but if it was extreme damage the ER 10 cold would basicaly ignore it. So would the Sorc need Endure elements to avoide the subdual when if the weather got worse she would be perfectly fine?

the same question is for a Fire Sorc in a hot area. Like it's 100degrees outside so i take subdual but i stand in a fire and MAYBE take 1 point cus i ignore the first 10 points. So in other words, is the ability to stand in fire less then the ability to ignore heat?

I have heard vairying replies at the table and was wondering.

I think the Sorc wouldn't need Endure elements if the extreme damage is something they are resistent to. And remember that elemental Sorcs sort of become elementals at 20th and I don't see a fire elemental takeing damage from being in a hot area. But that damage is UNTYPED so technicaly they might take it. Or if you don't want to use elemental use a Dragon or such.

Over all, if the Char won't take damage from the Extreme damage, should the lesser damage hurt them?

[Kilbourne]

Hypothetical Sorcerer, Elemental Bloodline: Water. This sorcerer has Elemental Resistance of 10 versus Cold at 3rd level.

I would say that because the extreme of Cold provides a specific damage (from Cold) that the sorcerer would have resistance to, the sorcerer would also be protected from lesser Cold damages.

The environmental damage from cold climates is subdual and untyped, but results from the fact that the area and weather is cold, and so the sorcerer would have more than enough resistance to ignore those damages, being subdual from cold (and therefore below even the most minimal threshold of ER 10 to Cold).

And so to answer your overall question, no, I do not think this Sorcerer would take damage from cold environments.