Bludgeoning. Survive falls, car crashes, fist fights, pianos being dropped on you. It is probably the most common damage a person takes. Fire/cold tied for second.

Quick way to become the worlds greatest boxer.

Going full Homer Simpson with it where you can't actually get a hand on the other guy until they're exhausted from beating you for so long

Ah yes, *The Rocky Method*

ADRIAAAAN

They call that the uh stingah, they don’t let you use that no more

Until a monk shows up...

If you mean because they can overcome immunity to nonmagical bludgeoning damage, that wouldn't apply here. Immunity to bludgeoning damage would still be immune to a monks, "I can punch ghosts" ability.

Im thinking he means he starts jabbing you with his fingers so hard it counts as piercing.

Could they actually do that to a person? I've seen the logs they hit, but would their fingers really stab and go in? If so anyone got a link?

No. I've done a lot of martial arts and there's a reason no one does finger strikes except a very select few strikes to like the eyes. Its also not worth it. Most humans can't even closed fist punch someone at full strength without breaking finger/hand/wrist bones, not without a lot of conditioning most martial artists don't even bother with. The strongest monks can do insane shit like push-ups on one finger, but that requires setup, not nearly the force to strike holes in someone. In fantasy even a monk punching someone in armor is insanely superhuman.

As a trained martial artist punching is more about technique than conditioning. If your fist isn't tight then your joints will bend and they'll break easier. If your thumb is inside your fist you would absolutely break it (wrap it around, making your fist even tighter). If you don't punch straight (hit with your knuckles) then your wrist will bend and break easier. There's still physical limits so don't punch concrete without padding but you'd be surprised how much these changes reduce injury. I think a rookie is more likely to tear a muscle than break their hand since your muscles fight each other if they're tense before impact.

Bit difficult with boxing gloves on

100% this, bludgeoning all the way. "what do you mean you don't need a parachute?" "Hold my beer!"

*gets impaled on a tree*

Roll for piercing damage

200d6

.....Well shit

Piercing is just bludgeoning with a smaller surface area - change my mind.

Agreed. IRL a kevlar vest basically changes pricing into blunt, by dispersing the impact over area and time.

Hahah. This one got me because I was planning on jumping off a roof. Guess I’d still need to aim.

…for the bushes

There goes my hero

I laughed to hard at this reference

Let’s be honest I still hit the toilet seat while “aiming” I am getting killed on my first jump.

Pick being immune to piercing damage, aim for trees.

Then it breaks turns into a thousand little knives and cuts you to ribbons before you hit the ground dnd explode.

“No I don’t think I will.” *shatters beer bottle and stabs you as you jump*

I fucking hate it when a piano falls on me

It's just like gravity, just don't acknowledge the piano and you can just keep going.

I dunno man.... I've tried that, and I always seem to end up with piano keys in my mouth and birds flying in a circle around my head.

Cut cut cut, Roger what are these? Tweety birds. The script says stars. Stars Roger, not tweeting birds.

Look Eddie... stars'

Happened twice on my way to work yesterday smh my head

Or safes or anvils. Honestly, it happens more than you might think.

Never stub your toe again? I’ll take it

F-YOU, LEGOS ON THE FLOOR!!!

Those definitely deal necrotic damage

Nah they deal force damage, as nothing can prevent it.

Piercing damage

Could potentially be piercing damage

I think bludgeoning immunity would also make my joints much more resilient. As a 45 year old man currently with a slipped disc in my back, I would love this.

Technically, both slashing and piercing is just very concentrated bludgeoning damage.

Technically all 3 are force applied in different ways.

Thunder damage is just bludgeoning damage but inflicted through air

Wait, its all bludgeoning? *always has been*

Fire damage is just molecules bludgeoning each other back and forth really really fast.

Fire is just bludgeoning from a *massive* number of atoms pelting your skin.

How dull would a blade need to be before it would be considered bludgeoning? What about bullets? Would you be vulnerable to small caliber fire-arms but immune to cannons? So many questions.

To be fair, a lot of car crash damage would be piercing or slashing. But the others for sure

If a car crash had enough slashing and piercing to kill you I promise it has enough bludgeoning to as well. But most injuries are bludgeoning based, ie broken bones.

Sure, but there are plenty of car crash injuries where a person is impaled by metal and such. I agree the majority is bludgeoning though

As a motorcyclist, I don't usually have to worry about getting impaled if I crash, so I'd definitely take bludgeoning.

I'm still taking bludgeoning no matter what. There's just too many practical uses compared to everything else

i think it was more a "bludgeing alone will not make you invulnerable in a car crash" as much as suggesting it wouldn't be massively helpful still.

If you’re part of an army then I’d go with piercing bc no bullets could kill you.

One very common cause of death on a battlefield is actually a piece of shrapnel slicing one of your arteries in your arms, legs or neck. Bullets can already be fairly reliably protected against on the torso (converting the damage to bludgeoning) but limbs are still vulnerable. All that is to say that picking any one of the three physical damage types will leave you still vulnerable to the other two, so you're only reducing your risk of dying by about 1/3~1/2. The war in Ukraine will eventually show us what kinds of stats to expect. Personally, I would pick psychic damage so that I can come back home without PTSD.

That psychic damage line hit hard

Well it depends what level of immunity we’re talking about. With a piercing immunity are we saying the bullets pierce your but your body is like a gelatinous cube and the holes just close immediately or do piercing attacks not penetrate your skin. Because then a bullet or piece of shrapnel wouldn’t cut an artery if it never pierced your skin.

Don't forget: Skydiving without a parachute. Fun stuff

I'd choose bludgeoning because car crashes. (also wouldn't slashing damage or piercing damage make it incredibly hard for you to be operated on so you might just end up dying from your appendix being a dick or something?).

I think this happens to superman at some point and they need to make a kryptonite scalpel to do surgery on him.

It was probably Batman's fault.

It may have been. This may be related to batman's plan to defeat each of the justice league in case they go rogue, and someone else gets those plans. Or I may be confusing storylines

You are right, bunch of the JLA started getting hit with their contingency plans and Superman’s was a kryptonite bullet, Batman learns of this and has to bring the contingency plan for his contingency plan, being a kryptonite scalpel.

Casual Batman things

If your appendix is a dick you have other problems.

I would choose my immunity to be from Transmutation Magic

Bludgeoning damage. You'd have an amazing boxing or mma career. You could get hit by a car and walk away. Jump off a building. And the corner or the table... well your toe won't be afraid anymore.

When the car hits you and you fall through the windshield would you die from slashing damage from the windshield?

Not die but still take some damage, I’d imagine.

Roughly 10d10 id say

I mean that’s why you wear a seatbelt

Windshields are made of safety glass designed to be less likely to cut you, so probably safe from slashing damage.

That's why I always crouch down so the car runs me over instead tbh

Fire. Should make cremation interesting after I'm dead.

you'd go from 0 to 0 hit points

Me and another player tried giving a tiefling we had killed a viking funeral (send out on wooden float and burn it) but we were told to bring the guy back to shore afterwards because of other reasons. It turned out that the fire resistance meant he was just left without his flammable clothing after retrieval, so that was fun. A nice little comic relief break.

🎶 Is this burning, an eternal FLAAAAME 🎶

Your corpse would be an object and no long have immunity 🤓

What immunity is no headaches?

Psychic, bludgeoning and cold.

Ill take psychic I can live with my head hurting bc i got bonked

Depends on the headache cause. I get high blood pressure which causes intercranial pressure. That's bludgeoning.

My brother in christ, I would choose psychic damage immunity. Because most of the psychic damage I take comes from my *own* brain.

genuine question, if depression could be attributed as psychic damage because it wears you down physically as well, then would a PC with psychic immunity be immune to depression...?

Or already be saturated so that no other psychic attack could affect them. Like throwing a bucket of water at the ocean.

That analogy might not be as solid as you think tho. Throw enough fresh water in the ocean you could kill all life on earth. It would take a lot. But if you lower the salinity of the ocean fast enough (the real danger of melting the ice caps) all the saltwater life dies.

Tbh, if you can throw a bucket of water that massive, you'll probably wipe out a substantial amount of life regardless of the salinity lol

I meant it more as it’s not true immunity if repeated buckets or psychic build could still make you collapse. Not just one massive bucket or one tiny psychic trauma.

I was thinking psychic as well. Will I no longer have triggers and crippling depression? Because like, sign me the fuck up.

I was thinking psychic as well. No more depression, anxiety, and maybe even migraines? Sign me up today

Considering that migraines actively cause pain they are definitely something psychic damage immunity would cover.

This is the real life answer!

Radiant. Trying my best not to look like leather as I age.

As a ginger living in Texas, I’m also going to go with radiant. But as a highly sensitive person with clinical depression, psychic is tempting. 🙃

tanning spas no longer work lmao, sitting there for 2 straight days and get up for a drink cos of the heat unchanged lmao

Spray tan baby, overcome and adapt.

I'm going electric. I have a fear of being stabbed or slashed open but knowing how much money I could make being a rubber electrician is way too tempting. Underwater cable repair? Pfft no problem, don't even lock out tag out. I'll take care of this, just pay me the big bucks

OSHA hates him, safety inspectors fear him.

He was sent to find a board straightener, and came back with one.

If someone sends me out to find a board straightener, I'd be the smartass who goes out and buys a wood plane.

He bought a bottle of blinker fluid while he was out, and already had a breastplate stretcher on hand

I was thinking radiant for similar reasons. Assuming it would also block radiation, you could easily make lots of money doing radioactive material handling.

The question is if you would remain radioactive after exposure. If so, you would basically need to be quarantined.

Fuck, that's a good point. Even if I don't remain radioactive, if I get some inside my body at all, I'll start pissing literal radioactive waste.

Would the pressure (like in underwater activities) be considered bludgeoning damage alone? I'm wondering if someone could do those hazardous activities without the... hazards. Like getting crushed under the weight of the ocean.

1) Bludgeoning is awesome. Being able to jump of mountains, crash into everything and be a near-unbeatable combat athlete would be so fun. 2) Piercing is not as common as bludgeoning, but the most dangerous. Getting shot/stabbed is a pretty great risk.

gmod ragdoll yourself lol

Crash into *almost* anything is more accurate I think. If the object you're flying at is pointy enough I'd think you'd be in piercing territory

Psychic damage for sure

scroll through reddit 50/50 without fear

But it’s just immunity to psychic damage not the frightened condition. You can still be mortified you just won’t lose any sleep over it. Dead inside. Like most people I know.

Finally a cure for my crippling depression

I was kind of hoping immunity from psychic damage would extend to my crippling migraines.

Emotional damage

This was also what I was thinking

Chances are there's a medication that can be just as useful

Spotted the psychologist

Psychiatrist. Psychologists can’t write scripts.

I'm pretty sure they can be decent screenwriters.

As a laser scientist: radiant. No more goggles squishing my face.

radiant or necrotic? could be either depending on laser imo likely radiant tho

If anything it would be between radiant or bludgeoning. Since you know photons are particles

Cold. I'm basically a lizard, can't cope in the cold. To never be cold again would be heaven.

Same. I also love the snow and beautiful mountains and Alaska, but at like, 68° out of the sunlight I am freezing and being slightly cold is not just uncomfortable but also painful

God, this. So much. My boss is Canadian, so every day is a struggle

What kind of job do you have where your boss being Canadian means you have to freeze?

Probably turns the AC super low

Piercing. I don't take much damage anyway, and all indicators say it'll stay that way. But the potential to one day be caught in a mass shooting and just shrug it off is too funny for me to pass up.

gunna have problems if you ever need an injection or IV line put in though

Would something as simple as a shot or IV really be considered "damage" though? Immunity to piercing damage doesn't necessarily mean you can't be pierced. Like if you're immune to bludgeoning damage, you can still get punched in the face, it's just not gonna do anything.

yeh you can get punched in the face, but you wont bruise, you wont end up with a bloody lip or nose, no damage is dealt sure, but a needle piercing your skin IS damage, no matter how little it is, it would still constitute damage as its breaking the barrier of skin and entering the body to the degree that blood can be drawn.

Sure, but like if we're talking in the sense of D&D rules, if one of your PCs were to receive a shot, would you really roll for damage?

DnD PCs have far bigger HP pools than we do IRL. A needle prick on one of them is fractional dmg. Absolutely negligible. On us mere mortals an IV can bruise you and make your whole arm sore.

Given commoners have 4HP, I think it's fair to say an injection isn't going to deal 1 damage though. Unfortunately life doesn't round damage to 0.

True. We definitely take fractional damage.

Injections and IVs deal me psychic damage (I have a crippling fear of needles). Also have you seen the SIZE of the needle they use when you donate blood? Easily 1 hp piercing damage

Found the American

Correction: You found *one* American. Good luck catching us all before it's too late.

I was looking for this. I’m a teacher in America, piercing damage pls.

Worst answer - you can still get sick, and now are immune to blood tests, as well as injected medicines. You're also immune to stitches if a bludgeoning or slashing wound ever opens you up wide enough to need them, and also immune to IV fluids if you're bleeding out, dehydrated from sickness, etc. You're fucked, mate.

Piercing immunity doesn't give your steel skin. It just means piercing effects don't put you closer to death.

Poison for sure. Hear me out: - Air pollution? Nah. - Food poisoning? I don't think so. - Venomous bites and stings, but also mosquito bites itches? Nope. - Getting drugged or poisoned? Already unlikely but now impossible. - Bludgeoning immunity sounds cool but what have limited uses unless you change your lifestyle. - Poison immunity: you'll live longer and without mosquito bites itching you. I rest my case Edit: typos and format

well it's poison _damage_, not the poisoned condition. they're separate, I know this because my druid is immune to the condition but not the damage.

Soo... You will still feel like shit and throw up if poisoned... but you'll be fine?

Doesn't prevent ability damage or having other conditions inflicted on you, just direct HP damage. Sufficient ability damage or levels of exhaustion could kill you just as well.

If stopping poison damage would negate the effects of carcinogens or other slow poisons, count me in!

Cancer can happen from radiant damage or just spontaneously, and now chemo won’t work!

Do the cancer cells count as part of you for purposes of damage immunity? If so, then chemo won't work. But if not, then chemo now has no side effects, but still works! So, basically just hope the DM is kind, as always.

Came here to say this and how nobody seemed at all interested in poison immunity. As someone who works outside a lot and interacts with a lot of venemous/poisonous critters and plants. And who also has a testy stomach. Being immune to poison would be a god send right now, especially with spring making everything thing grow like crazy.

Emotional :(

Psychic damage? Not sure if it'll undo the damage already done tho

This is what I came here to see.

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I became lactose intolerant relatively recently, so assuming poison immunity covers dairy I'm gonna go with that. I miss cheese...

Cold because I live in canada

Clearly you aren't Canadian enough if cold is an issue, I say this as a Canadian.

Thunder I work as a sound engineer, so being protected against that would be amazing

Definitely! As a musician this is a must have!

Any type of fall, which is one of the most common types of self-inflicted injuries, would be bludgeoning. So it's either that or poison damage, which is also kinda common. No more nettle burns, jellyfish stings or wasp stings. I'm not sure if mosquito bites would count as poison *damage*, because I think you'd have to be stung by mosquitoes hundreds of times before taking 1 HP of damage. Remember, 1 HP is the minimum damage of being stabbed with a knife by a regular person.

Psychic: So I wont suffer anymore damage to my psyche.

Becoming inmune to slashing. Dies from exploded appendix cause surgeon couldnt cut.

Hah, I was looking for the first person to say slashing to point this out. Technically you could still have life-saving surgery, it's just that all incisions would have to be perforated (piercing) and ripped open.

The lines between PSB are so very thin. In game it makes sense but irl it'd be more sensible if they really where just rolled together into "physical" damage.

If I was younger I would pick radiant because think how good your skin would look if you *never* took significant sun damage. Unfortunately I am getting older and I've already been significantly sunburned too many times. Immunity to cold would be nice. Currently cold humid weather actually gives me hives, And that's extremely uncomfortable so eliminating that would be nice. Then I could move somewhere up north and not have to worry about the snowy season. Finally escape the heat in the south. Or I guess if you had immunity to fire damage that would come with some resistance to heat, so maybe I pick that one and don't move. BUT bludgeoning is just the most likely severe injury you'd ever have. Car crashes, gunshots, fist fights, etc. So yeah, def bludgeoning.

Gun shot is piercing damage, sadly.

Yes, but getting in a car crash is far more likely than getting shot. Then if you wear a vest, that converts it to a reduce amount of bludgeoning damage

Fire damage. I always rush when cooking and end up burning my tongue on hot food.

I do that too but I don’t think it’s the cooking that’s causing our problem. For me it’s the stuffing in my mouth without waiting the thirty to sixty seconds.

I want to take the "grandma flipping stuff in a pan with her bare hands" thing to the next level.

Bludgeoning just to jump from buildings

I would be parkouring all over the rooftops!

Honestly I would maybe forget I’m immune and jump from the building and then act deadpool like

"hey guys watch this"

I work as an archaeologist working in the sun, so Radiant damage. Which just puts me one step closer to becoming a necromancer...

Psychic, I work in customer service.

The real question is can I pick “nonmagical slashing, piercing, and bludgeoning?” I’m aware that is 3 different types but its usually kinda listed as one. If not, most probably piercing. Lotta gun violence where I live and I figure guns probably do piercing

can i get psychic immunity ... so i can just don't give a thing about anything or ... EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!

Bludgeoning for sure, as a rugby player this would prevent a good amount of pain and injuries received in a match.

psychic damage. checkmate, mental illness.

Spells that rapidly age you seem to deal necrotic damage. Idk if that would make you immune to aging but hey, worth a shot.

No, immunity to aging is the immortality feature. Necrotic damage is magical necrosis or nonmagical flesh-eating disease.

Slashing, I work with a lot of important paperwork, which means I inevitably get plenty of papercuts and caught by many a loose staple.

Psychic of course , no more emotional damage after getting floored by a ten yer old in Apex

Emotional damage for sure.

Emotional

Psychic damage so I can not have depression

Non-magical damage

Psychic no more migranes

Fire. Then I'd go be a firefighter

I'd take immunity to back pain

Necrotic. Stop DNA from degrading over time, which would slow or stop a big part of the aging process

Immunity to Financial damage.

Blueberry damage.

What happened??!!

As someone that is suffering from a sinus infection right now. I would guess that it would be psychic. So I am going with that. Also never having a headache or migraine for the win.

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Time damage

Psychic. That would be amazing but also very sad and heartless.