[RPG] How much and what type of damage does Warlock Thought Shield deal

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The rules about Warlock Thought Shield say this:

You also have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature
deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount of
damage that you do.

My two questions are:

  1. If a creature does 40 points of psychic damage to a warlock, then is it the case that 20 points of damage is done to the warlock, and 20 points of damage is done to the creature? If the damage is reduced somehow to the warlock, is that damage dealt to the creature also reduced?

  2. Is the damage done back to the creature considered untyped or psychic? If the creature is immune to psychic damage, does the creature take any damage?

I have a preference for official rulings with citation.

Best Answer

You also have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount of damage that you do.

Both of your questions are answered in this quote.

  1. If a creature rolls for 40 points of psychic damage to a warlock who is using Thought Shield, the Warlock takes 20 points of psychic damage due to the resistance to psychic damage. The creature then takes 20 points of psychic damage (the same that you took).

  2. The damage is still psychic damage. If they are immune to psychic damage, they take no damage (but you still do). If they are instead resistant to psychic damage, the damage done to them will be further reduced -- using the above example of 40 damage on the roll, they would take 10.

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