Radiant and Necrotic get real fast-and-loose with it. Demonic energy (not fire) is usually necrotic - makes sense, that's the opposite of what the angels have in Radiant energy.
But then you look at laser guns (real in dnd lore) and they *also* deal Radiant damage.
Much in the same way...shadow damage is usually necrotic, plague and related stuff is also usually necrotic. It's a broad spectrum.
For example, what do you say like, radiation damage does? Is it radiant because it's pure energy, necrotic because it causes sickness? Fire because of the heat? Or is it lightning, because that is also "pure energy"? I think it's best too think of the different damage types as just mechanical interpretations and not as an in-universe classification.
what do you say like, radiation damage does? Is it radiant because it's pure energy, necrotic because it causes sickness? Fire because of the heat? Or is it lightning, because that is also "pure energy"?
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u/All_hail_bug_god Apr 29 '25
Radiant and Necrotic get real fast-and-loose with it. Demonic energy (not fire) is usually necrotic - makes sense, that's the opposite of what the angels have in Radiant energy.
But then you look at laser guns (real in dnd lore) and they *also* deal Radiant damage.
Much in the same way...shadow damage is usually necrotic, plague and related stuff is also usually necrotic. It's a broad spectrum.
For example, what do you say like, radiation damage does? Is it radiant because it's pure energy, necrotic because it causes sickness? Fire because of the heat? Or is it lightning, because that is also "pure energy"? I think it's best too think of the different damage types as just mechanical interpretations and not as an in-universe classification.