Barbarian Rage vs Magical Spells.

[dmjuno]

For some reason, I cannot figure out how this would work.

I know when barbarian's are raging they take half damage vs B,P & S. Do they also take half damage when hit with spells?

[Syries]

Where do you get that they take half damage from piercing/slashing/bludgeoning? They do get DR but certainly not half damage...

Even if they did, a spell that deals B P or S damage would be halved, but spells like burst of radiance or fireball would not.

[GM Rednal]

They may be thinking of D&D 5E, where that's a thing.

In Pathfinder, they get stronger and get some temporary HP (from their Constitution going up), but they don't innately get any kind of damage reduction out of it.

[doomman47]

They get more con(higher fort save) and a bonus to will saves but that's about it unless you spec into the anti magic stuff.

[MerlinCross]

GM Rednal wrote:

They may be thinking of D&D 5E, where that's a thing.

In Pathfinder, they get stronger and get some temporary HP (from their Constitution going up), but they don't innately get any kind of damage reduction out of it.

They do but you have to hit level 7 for that to kick in. Rage Powers and Archetypes can change this though.

But Rage itself doesn't give a damage reduction on it's own. Heck, even the DR barbarians get is a static thing. Don't need to be raging to benefit.

How does Resistance to Physical damage work anyway? All the links I had showed the spell "resistance". Is it like PF's Damage Reduction just a flat subtraction?

[doomman47]

MerlinCross wrote:

GM Rednal wrote:

They may be thinking of D&D 5E, where that's a thing.

In Pathfinder, they get stronger and get some temporary HP (from their Constitution going up), but they don't innately get any kind of damage reduction out of it.

They do but you have to hit level 7 for that to kick in. Rage Powers and Archetypes can change this though.

But Rage itself doesn't give a damage reduction on it's own. Heck, even the DR barbarians get is a static thing. Don't need to be raging to benefit.

How does Resistance to Physical damage work anyway? All the links I had showed the spell "resistance". Is it like PF's Damage Reduction just a flat subtraction?

Physical resistance doesn't exist in pathfinder to my knowledge but every resistance in 5e halves damage out right no fire resistance 5,10,15,20, ect just reduce fire dmg by half, its weaker at low levels but gets pretty nasty at high levels were something would normally only take 30 dmg off a 200 dmg fireball with fire resist 30 fire resist in 5e would cut 100 damage off.

[gatherer818]

Barbarian DR (or any DR that's expressed as X/-) simply reduces Slashing, Bludgeoning, and Piercing damage by X. If it's listed as X/silver, for example, it reduces S/B/P damage EXCEPT BY SILVER WEAPONS by X instead.