Is shield of shards spell damage?

[Jinotad]

Shield of Shards

So, my question is, what is defined as spell damage?

Since the shards are the effects of a spell, is it considered spell damage? Or because it specifies damage type as slashing and piercing, gives a crit range, and is effected by shield material; its counted as a non-spell damage?

I'm primarily asking because I'm playing a medium, who has effects that specify bonus damage to either spell or non-spell damage exclusively.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

"Spell damage" is not a defined term AFAIK. When the Medium says "non-spell damage rolls" it means "(non-spell) damage rolls" not "non-(spell damage) rolls." So the question is, are you making the damage roll to determine the effects of a spell, or for some other reason? In this case it is the former.

Jinotad wrote:

Or because it specifies damage type as slashing and piercing, gives a crit range, and is effected by shield material; its counted as a non-spell damage?

There are a number of spells that do slashing/piercing/bludgeoning damage.

Any spell that requires an attack roll can crit. They don't call this out unless the crit range is something other than the default 20/x2.

Combat wrote:

Spells and Critical Hits: A spell that requires an attack roll can score a critical hit. A spell attack that requires no attack roll cannot score a critical hit. If a spell causes ability damage or drain (see Special Abilities), the damage or drain is doubled on a critical hit.

[Jinotad]

Sounds good, thanks for the clarification.