stacking elemental damage from different sources on melee weapons


Rules Questions


So I have a Spell Warrior Skald and (post errata) he'll get to apply Rage Powers to his weapon song.

I'm thinking of Ice Linnorm Curse (rage power) and possibly giving everyone frost weapons. So if an enemy kills a little summoned creature, for example, they get hit with the ice linnorm curse and gain cold vulnerability (if they fail their save).

Ice Linnorm Curse says: The character’s melee attacks deal an additional 1 point of cold damage.

Would that stack with a frost weapon?

So I hit with a frost longsword, would it deal weapon damage plus 1d6 + 1 cold? So let's say I roll a 5, the curse bumps it to 6, and the vulnerability makes it 9 total cold damage? Is this right? Or do they not stack, or work separately against the vulnerability?

So 5 becomes 7, 1 stays at 1, so 8 cold damage?

Thanks!


1. it cannot be done with a spell warrior because weapon song replaces the inspired rage raging song, so a spell warrior skald cannot grant the linnorm death curse to his allies.

2. The rule is that bonuses from the same source do not stack.

  • the +1 comes from the rage power
  • the 1d6 comes from the weapon enchantment

I'd say they should stack.


Yes, but Paizo announced they're fixing that in the errata. So pretty soon it will work!

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