Split = Damage Immunity?

[Ravingdork]

Split (Ex) Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. Instead, the creature splits into two identical puddings, each with half of the original's current hit points (round down). A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points.

Does this mean that black puttings are completely immune to piercing and slashing weapons? Or do they start taking damage from such weapons once the individual puddings have 10 or less hit points?

This will make a big difference on whether or not my sorcerer takes conjure black pudding.

[Shadow_of_death]

It appears that whenever hit with a P/S weapon (regardless of damage, which is weird) it takes no damage and becomes two creatures with half the HP, this ability (and therefore the P/S negation) stop functioning at 10 HP.

So if fighting one don't use power attack, hitting is all that matters at the start.

[Berik]

Ravingdork wrote:

[i]Split (Ex) Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding.

I don't think anything in the ability description invalidates the sentence I quoted above. A black pudding with less than 10 HP doesn't split, but I don't see the text suggesting they lose the p/s damage immunity.

[Shadow_of_death]

Berik wrote:

Ravingdork wrote:

[i]Split (Ex) Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding.

I don't think anything in the ability description invalidates the sentence I quoted above. A black pudding with less than 10 HP doesn't split, but I don't see the text suggesting they lose the p/s damage immunity.

The ability SPLIT stops working when it reaches 10 HP, The split ability is the one providing the immunity.

[tachus]

The way I have always seen it rules is that Black Puddings are immune to all P/S dmg. They continue to split while taking that dmg down until they at at 10hp or less. At that point they continue to be immune to all P/S dmg but cannot be split. Instead you would have to kill it with B dmg or with spells.

Of the handful of times I have fought these, with multiple different DMs and groups, they have all ruled the same. In all the cases the party always had our melee attackers start splitting them up, while our casters piled on the AoE spells to destroy them.

[Kolokotroni]

tachus wrote:

The way I have always seen it rules is that Black Puddings are immune to all P/S dmg. They continue to split while taking that dmg down until they at at 10hp or less. At that point they continue to be immune to all P/S dmg but cannot be split. Instead you would have to kill it with B dmg or with spells.

Of the handful of times I have fought these, with multiple different DMs and groups, they have all ruled the same. In all the cases the party always had our melee attackers start splitting them up, while our casters piled on the AoE spells to destroy them.

Pretty much this. I remember a few occassions where players spend a round or two searching for backup weapons in bags of holding or improvised bludgeoning weapons while others started chopping them up

[caubocalypse]

I agree with everyone else. It says they are immune to all P/S damage, so therefore they are immune.