The attack "Storm Hammer" says hit:1d8+_(wisdom modifier)lighting and thunder damage… how do I tell how much damage to inflict?
[RPG] How does multi-type damage work
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If I'm not mistaken, your Example 2 actually encompasses two different cases, so I'm restating your examples and breaking out my answers accordingly:
Example 1: Creature is Vulnerable 5 Thunder and Vulnerable 2 Lightning. [A single] Attack deals Thunder and Lightning damage.
Example 2a: Creature is affected by [A single effect dealing] Ongoing Fire & Radiant 5, while it is Vulnerable 5 All.
Example 2b: Creature is affected by [two separate effects dealing] Ongoing Fire 5 and Ongoing Radiant 5, while it is Vulnerable 5 All.
Which should result in the following rulings:
Outcome 1: 7 extra damage.
Outcome 2a: 5 extra damage.
Outcome 2b: 10 extra damage.
Assumptions:
- "Vuln [type] [#]" means "whenever the creature suffers a hit of damage type [type], the creature takes [#] extra points of damage."
- Whenever a creature suffers a discrete incident of damage, evaluate that damage in isolation against all the creature's vulnerabilities, resistances, triggering effects, etc. etc.
- If a single damaging effect has two types, all points of damage are considered simultaneously to be of both types; 5 fire&radiant is not 2.5 fire / 2.5 radiant, and thus is not two separate 'hits.'
Conclusions:
- In example 1, the creature suffers a single instance of damage which just happens to deal Thunder and Lightning damage. Evaluate the hit against all the creature's vulnerabilities:
- The creature's Vuln 5 Thunder triggers (since the damage is typed Thunder, it meets the criteria for this vulnerability).
- The creature's Vuln 2 Lightning triggers (also meets the criteria for this vulnerability).
- In example 2a, the creature suffers a single instance of damage which just happens to count as both Fire and Radiant simultaneously. Therefore the "Vulnerable 5 All" gets triggered once (the typing of the damage [Fire&Radiant] meets the criteria for the vulnerability).
- In example 2b, the creature suffers a separate instance of Fire damage and Radiant damage - two separate "hits" trigger the Vulnerable rules two separate times, exactly as if two separate instances of example 2a had occurred.
Yes it does. It is defined as "extra damage"
Extra damage is always in addition to other damage
since extra damage is always added on. And warlock's curse is a power then it qualifies as a damage roll:
A roll of a die or dice to determine damage dealt by a power or some other effect
Being that it is definitely added on to the damage, and it qualifies as a damage roll then it is eligible for any powers that add to damage rolls.
The damage expression should be
CHA + CON + 2d6 + Implement + 3
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The amount of damage is equal to rolling an 8-sided die, and adding your Wisdom modifier to it. So for example if you have 16 Wisdom, your modifier is +3, and if you roll a 4 on the 8-sided die, you get 4+3 = 7 damage.
The type of the damage is both Thunder and Lightning. That is to say, for the above example, you do not deal 4 Lightning and 3 Thunder damage or something, it deals 7 (Lightning and Thunder) damage.
Multi-typed damage basically counts as whatever is best for you: the target uses the lowest resistance it has to any of the listed types.
So in the case of Storm Hammer, immunity to Lightning damage does no good: the creature would then have to use its Thunder resistance (if any). To be completely immune, the creature would need immunity to both. If the creature is vulnerable to either type, it takes that extra damage. If it is vulnerable to both, then it takes the extra damage from each.