Elan resilience. Damage reduction or no?

[boon]

So my character was crit by a severing weapon. I used my resilience to lower the damage enough not to lose the arm. However my DM says the severing ability ignores damage redustion for cutting off limbs. So Im wondering if resilience counts as actual damage reduction, since is reduces damage from all sources and not just physical.

[Mr.Alarm]

Psionics Unleashed wrote:

Resilience (Su): When an elan takes damage, he can spend power points to reduce its severity. As an immediate action, he can reduce the damage he is about to take by 2 hit points for every 1 power point he spends.

It seems pretty cut and dry that the ability would save your limb, no where in the text does it say it gives you damage reduction, just that you reduce the damage. unfortunately, I was unable to find the rules for a Severing Weapon its hard to make a final judgement. Ultimately though, its your DM's game and ultimately his call. (Though if I was running your game, I would say you saved the limb if only because it would hamper your character by such a great deal)

[Ascalaphus]

In general though, if some damaging attack has a rider ability to it (like causing Bleed), if the damage is negated, the rider effects don't occur either.