Falling Damage Resistance

[Starocious]

So I was looking at spellhearts and noticed one gave Resistance to falling damage and wondered, if your resistance to falling damage is higher than the damage you would have taken, do you still land prone?

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If you have resistance to a type of damage, each time you take that type of damage, you reduce the amount of damage you take by the listed amount (to a minimum of 0 damage).

This seems to read you do resistance before determining the damage you take, at which point I'd guess you wouldn't land prone as you would take no damage from the fall, but I was curious what other people think.

[Guntermench]

I'd say you do not land prone. This honestly isn't likely to come up very often, and can be achieved with resistance to bludgeoning or physical damage as well I think.

[Starocious]

Superhero landing!

[Cordell Kintner]

You only land prone if you take damage. Cat Fall is a Trained skill feat and eventually negates fall damage all together, so the Spellheart isn't that good, unless you aren't going Legendary in Acrobatics (Which you really should if you aren't already going Legendary with Athletics).

[Dubious Scholar]

Yep, the rules explicitly say that whether you took damage is how you decide if you managed to land on your feet.

Amusingly, this also affects the damage you deal by landing on someone though - if you don't take damage neither will they.

[Guntermench]

Instead you get tons of style points.