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Originally Posted by Nightfall
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Originally Posted by kennoseishin
In other words, the defender still gets to roll DRN to reduce AN damage. If this wasn't the case, smites would average 18 damage instead of 10 or so.
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Nope, as far as I've seen the defensive DRN adds to protection, it doesn't subtract from damage. |
It's simple to test this. Just get a bunch of illithid; their mindblast deals 1 AN+mr damage. If AN allows an opposed DRN roll, then the average damage will be 1; if AN ignores the opposed DRN roll, then the average damage will be around 7. When I checked this for myself, the average damage was indeed around 1.
Which means the death bless causes *all* the damage to be AN+mr, not just the 2 bonus damage.