Triggering weakness more than once on a strike: Holy rune on Blade of Justice


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So I'm using the specific example of a Paladin with Blade of Justice and the Holy rune a +3 weapon on the same strike, but I think this question can apply to other scenarios. Let's say our paladin hits a demon with weakness good 10.

1) Does the good damage from multiple sources stack? Does the strike do 1d6+3 good damage? (Pretty sure it does, but can't hurt to confirm.)

2) Do the two sources of good damage only trigger the weakness once for 10 extra damage? Or does it each trigger separately for 20? (I am guessing the former but am not sure.)

3) Does the Holy rune count as adding another damage dice for the purposes of things like Blade of Justice or Charge weapons? (I am pretty sure it doesn't, but can't find the rule I remember for it and am worried I'm thinking of a PF1 thing. Also, sometimes these sorts of things say "the number of weapon damage dice" and other times just say "damage dice.)

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1) Yes.

2) I'd say once.

3) Gonna say no.

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I agree with Rysky on all three of these; we should say the number of weapon damage dice every time though to be clear, let us know if you find any that don't say weapon.


Cool, good to know my read seemed to be correct. I'll try to dig around for those damage dice exceptions later.


Mark Seifter wrote:
I agree with Rysky on all three of these; we should say the number of weapon damage dice every time though to be clear, let us know if you find any that don't say weapon.

This might be important to disambiguate on Certain Strike, where I assume (but am not completely sure) that the intent is that you deal minimum damage on all dice on a miss.

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