Can an Abjurer resist Force or Positive / Negative energy damage?

[fearcypher]

In the Abjurer specialty school the ability just says to pick one energy type. Does that mean I could pick sonic or force resist? What about positive/negative energy?

[fearcypher]

What other energy types exist out there as well, if any? And could an abjurer apply his resistance to them?

[My Self]

Not 100% on this, but it seems like sonic, force, and positive/negative are all valid choices.

There's also divine power and the classic fire/cold/acid/electric.

[Ciaran Barnes]

That ability is surprisingly vague. It's the only one I've ever seen that doesn't list available energy types.

[vorpaljesus]

It seems to me that Force and positive/negative energy (oddly enough) aren't energy types by the game's definition. I'm led to believe this because almost every spell or ability lists the five energy types to choose from and they're electricity, fire, acid, cold and sonic.

Can't find RAW for this.

I'd allow your interpretation in my game though.

[Blake's Tiger]

Divine power is unresistible, though.

Edit: autocorrect, grr

[fearcypher]

Blake's Tiger wrote:

Divine power is unresistible, though.

Edit: autocorrect, grr

It says that it is not resisted by fire resistance. Is it stated somewhere that it is not subject to Energy Resist of any type?

[Blakmane]

Force and pos/neg energy aren't 'energy types', although this is somewhat of an unwritten rule due to the vagueness of pathfinder core. There are many examples of the energy types being fire, cold, acid, electricity and sonic.

I would totally let you take other resistance types though because rule of cool. However, in PFS, I would be ruling the abjuration school power to refer to those five types as per the precedent.