Burning skeleton - vulnerable to cold? How much "extra" damage?

[divby0]

Hello,

what does "vulnerable" mean? Do attacks of this type make more damage than regular?

e.g. I have a burning skeleton - that is vulnerable to cold. Which would make sense. But how much more damage does cold damage do?

If it wouldnt make more damage it wouldnt be listed right? E.g. if it would be the same as acid or force damage.

Thanks
Markus

[Alexander Kilcoyne]

+50%

[LazarX]

As an exercise, look up vulnerability in your Bestiary in that index of monster qualities. It'll give you the general guideline for this and similar questions.

[Black Moria]

Vulnerable to cold means that creature takes 50% more damage from cold.

Example - if the burning skeleton takes 20 cold damage, it takes 30 cold damage instead.

[Brambleman]

The definitinon is listed in the back of the beastiary, in the universal monster rules:

The Beastiary wrote:

Vulnerabilties (Ex or Su) A creature with vulnerabilities

takes half again as much damage (+50%) from a specific
energy type, regardless of whether a saving throw is
allowed or if the save is a success or failure. Creatures
with a vulnerability that is not an energy type instead
take a –4 penalty on saves against spells and effects
that cause or use the listed vulnerability (such as spells
with the light descriptor). Some creatures might suffer
additional effects, as noted in their descriptions.

[divby0]

LazarX wrote:

As an exercise, look up vulnerability in your Bestiary in that index of monster qualities. It'll give you the general guideline for this and similar questions.

Thank you - but i can not find the table you are refering too. I was looking in the Bestiary before asking that question.

[LazarX]

divby0 wrote:

LazarX wrote:

As an exercise, look up vulnerability in your Bestiary in that index of monster qualities. It'll give you the general guideline for this and similar questions.

Thank you - but i can not find the table you are refering too. I was looking in the Bestiary before asking that question.

It's not a table it's the appendix of monster qualities in the back of the book. The other thing you should familliarise yourself with are subtypes such as in this case, fire as I assume the critter in question has the fire subtype. But in short vulnerability means 50 percent more damage so resolve damage and saves as normal and add 50 percent to the final total.