Does Piercing Effect Damage Reduction or Damage Negation.

[BhelliomRahl]

Good day.

 

Currently running a game where the players are a Military unit in a post apocalyptic America resently awakened from stasis. We are making good use of the HSEG, epecially the ammo tables.

 

To the issue, some of the ammunition we are using has the piercing power. Some of my NPCs have Damage Reduction or Damage Negation, does Piercing effect these defenses and if so how?

 

Thank you in advance.

[Steve Long]

Re: Does Piercing Effect Damage Reduction or Damage Negation.

 

Sounds like a fun campaign!

 

Neither Damage Negation nor Damage Reduction has any effect on Piercing. Damage Negation reduces the DCs in an attack with Piercing points before the damage is applied, of course, but that doesn’t change how Piercing affects the target. Similarly, Damage Reduction reduces the amount of damage an attack with Piercing ultimately does, but it doesn’t diminish the effect of the Piercing points.