Is Resist the same as Spell Reistance?

[sciencerob]

"Defensive Abilities: A blighted fey gains DR 10/cold iron and good; immunity to disease, paralysis, poison, and polymorph; and resistance to cold 10 and electricity 10. A blighted fey also gains spell resistance equal to 11 + its newly adjusted CR."

I understand overcoming spell resistance is a caster level check(I think) but what about the resistance to cold? If it is a CR 5(thus SR 16) and someone casts cone of cold does that mean he has to overcome a SR of 26?

[Bearded Ben]

"resistance to cold 10" means that he ignores 10 points of cold damage from each attack. It has nothing to do with spell resistance.

[Jeraa]

Energy resistance reduces the damage taken. IF you have fire resistance 10, and get hit by a fireball that does 35 damage, the character will actually only take 25 damage (35 - fire resistance 10).

[mplindustries]

Resistance means they take that much less damage of that type. Cold Resistance 10 means that anytime you'd take cold damage, you'd take 10 less. If someone uses Cone of Cold and would deal 50 damage, the blighted fey would only take 40.

[sciencerob]

Any chance of a page number? That is the way I've been playing it(ignoring the first 10 dmg) but I couldn't really see where it spells it out.

[Jeraa]

sciencerob wrote:

Any chance of a page number? That is the way I've been playing it(ignoring the first 10 dmg) but I couldn't really see where it spells it out.

Core rulebook, page 562.

[sciencerob]

Thanks Jeraa. I've read The core book up through the Game Master section front to back but I didn't finish the appendix yet... thought it would be in the magic section.