Damage Types
Different attacks, damaging spells, and other harmful effects deal different types of damage. Damage types have no rules of their own, but other rules, such as damage resistance, rely on the types. The damage types follow, with examples to help a GM assign a damage type to a new effect.Acid. The corrosive spray of a black dragon’s breath and the dissolving enzymes secreted by a black pudding deal acid damage.
Bludgeoning. Blunt force attacks—hammers, falling, constriction, and the like—deal bludgeoning damage.
Cold. The infernal chill radiating from an ice devil’s spear and the frigid blast of a white dragon’s breath deal cold damage.
Fire. Red dragons breathe fire, and many spells conjure flames to deal fire damage.
Force. Force is pure magical energy focused into a damaging form. Most effects that deal force damage are spells, including magic missile and spiritual weapon.
Lightning. A lightning bolt spell and a blue dragon’s breath deal lightning damage.
Necrotic. Necrotic damage, dealt by certain undead and a spell such as chill touch, withers matter and even the soul.
Piercing. Puncturing and impaling attacks, including spears and monsters’ bites,
deal piercing damage.
Poison. Venomous stings and the toxic gas of a green dragon’s breath deal poison damage.
Psychic. Mental abilities such as a mind flayer’s psionic blast deal psychic damage.
Radiant. Radiant damage, dealt by a cleric’s flame strike spell or an angel’s smiting weapon, sears the flesh like fire and overloads the spirit with power.
Slashing. Swords, axes, and monsters’ claws deal slashing damage.
Thunder. A concussive burst of sound, such as the effect of the thunderwave spell, deals thunder damage.
Ahoy hoy.
Someone asked about elements and what not in my DMs a while back. Basically, some ideas get lost in translation, so Ziggy shall elaborate.
Long, long ago, in a canon far away, before we knew much of anything, Maruyama, in his infinite wisdom decided to just info dump a whole chapter on the basics of magic. Obviously this all got mostly cut for the LN because RNJesus. There was an interesting meta magic though, never heard from again in this time before petite posteriors: Magic Attribute Alteration meta magic. How strange.
Now, Maru loves to retroactively reference the Web Novel in subtle ways (WN only bois appearing in Mass for the Dead) and so on. But, this meta magic has literally never been seen since 2010. Sasuga Maruyama-san. Now retcons exist. Yuri's Monk [Ki Detection] is now semi-universal to all beings in terms of estimating power levels even among
"It just got retconned"
...........Is what some may think. Ziggy's here to drop some knowledge on you all.
So first, what the fuck is an Attribute?
An Attribute(Zokusei) is also read as property. It's effectively damaging typing, but it's not just say elemental types or damage types. It gets a bit autistic but that's why Ziggy lives and breathes!
Attributes are.... weird.
Now normally you'd think:
"It's just elements and stuff right?"
Spells like [Lesser Protection - Energy](V3) is written as "[Lower ATTRIBUTE Defense ]".
Attribute = Energy. CAse closed.
....Right?
As you can surmise from my antics, sadly Maru is oddly nuanced about all this, and naturally you all lost details in translation. Basically any energy protection spell [Protection from Energy YYYY] or [Energy Immunity ZZZZ] is specifying an Attribute to resist or negate. But Attributes are not just energy types.
For instance, [True Dark] is special because it lets you use Darkness without any Darkness Attribute tagged on the spell.
Attributes in Overlord:
For you kids in the know, Attributes in Overlord would be Descriptors or Domains sort of bundled together.
The descriptors are acid Y, air Y, chaotic, cold Y, darknessY, death , earth Y, electricity Y, evil Y, fear, fire Y, force Y?, good Y, language-dependent, lawful, lightY, mind-affecting, sonicY, and waterY.
Physical System
- Resist attacks up to Level 60
Strike (Ouda)
[Body of Efflugernt Beryl] Green
[Strike Weapon Weakness IV]
Slashing
[Body of Efflugent Heliodor ] Red
[Slashing Weapon Resistance V - ]
Piercing/Thrusting (Shitotsu)
[Body of Efflugent Aqua Marine ] Blue
[Piercing Weapon Resistance V - ]
Natural
[Resistance to Natural Weapons ]
[higher magic invalidation ] Tier 6 magic invalidation
Four Great Elements System
Fire (Flame - Honoo) [Burn Lance] [Fire Storm] [Summon Primal Fire Elemental ] [Vermillion Nova]?
Holocaust Scripture
[Napalm ]
[Fire Rain ] - Divine
[Fire Storm ] - Divine
Hellfire?
[Hell Flame ]
[Hellfire Wall ] Deals fire damage but does no physical damage? (Fire that bypasses physical defenses?)
Wind "Air" [Summon Primal Air Elemental ] [Elementalist(Air)]
Windflower Scripture -
Lightning or (Electricity Kaminari Dengeki) [Shock Lance] [Call Greater Thunder] [Electrosphere ] [Lightning Sphere ][Lightning ] [Lightning Nullification ]
[Lightning Spear ] Single target [Lightning]?
Water [Summon Primal Water Elemental ]
Clear Water Scriptrue
Ice (Cold - Reiki) [Iceball - ] [Freeze Lance - ]
[Polar Claw ] Strongest Ice
[Piercing Icicle ]
Ainz's resistance and Frost Dragon Breath
Earth [Elementalist (Earth)] [Crack in the Ground]
Acid (San)[Five Colored Holy Sword], [Mist of Super Acid [Acid Nullification ]
Poison, Anti Living Creature; Natural Weapon Acid sort of.
Gravity,
[Gravity Maelstorm ]
[Reverse Gravity ]
Gem(Houseki),
Crystal (suishou) (Strike(ouda)+Pie rcing(Shitotsu)) = Purely Physical
[Crystal Lance]
[Crystal Dagger ]
[Crystal Wall ]
[Crystal Shield ]
[Shard Buckshot ]
*Sonic (Onpa) [Five Colored Holy Sword]
( Nuclear appears to be a composite of Fire and Strike - )
Spiritual
Spiritual System 5 Elements Dichotomy Yin (Negates Yang)
Yang (Negates Yin)
Other
Divine Protection
Holy (Hijiri - same Kanji in Holy Kingdom's name)
[Power channeled by Paladins? - ]
[Paladin (Hijiri Kishi)]
Holy Flame (Holy + Fire )
[Holy Ray ]
[Evil Slayer ] Good at defeating Evil creatures - Paladin Prestige class
[Sacred Archer Paladin with bow
[Final Holy War ]
Karma based Selective energy (harms Evil and Neutral not Good)
Unholy Knights
[Dark Knight (Ankoku)]
Darkness? (Ankoku)
- "Dark Ritual Mastery"; bolsters Create Undead (modular daily summoning)
Holy and Unholy may just be Good and Evil
Karma Related [Conflict Karma - ]
Zen ( Good) [Holy Smite [Armageddon - Good] [Holy Aura - ]
[Holy Smite] is described as a spell that is "more effective on those inclined toward Evil"
Similarly Ainz mentions Angels are more difficult to deal with than Demons
[Summon Angel - ] "heaven'
[Holy Aura - Good Aura] is said to only affect those with an Evil Attribute
(Neutral)
Waru (Evil)
[Armageddon -Evil ]
[Anti Evil Protection ]
["Living" Sacrifice - ] Lowers karma with black mist effect
Shinsei (Shinsei Kami+Hijiri sacred attribute)
[Protection from Magic - Sacred ]
[Shinsei Attribute Area Ability Score Penalty Ⅱ]
[Shinsei Attack Weakness IV ]
[Amatarsu][Tsukiyomi]
[Holy Light ] Divine system; Damages all evil enemies
[Brilliant Radiance - ] Wraps in light and deals Shinsei damages
Heavenly?
[Uriel'] a flame spell whose damage scales with user's karma is written as 神炎.
*Equipment Ainz used to face Shalltear
warded against Shinsei
"Animating Energy"
Negative (presumably drains living creature Hp ; heals undead - )
[Negative Burst ]
[Ray of Negative Energy ] Damages living heals undead
[Undying Flame ] Flame + Negative Energy
[Summon Undead]
[Create Undead ] (Spell); originally called in WN
[Protection Energy - Negative ]
Doom Lord's unnamed Negative Energy skill
Elder lich's [Negative Touch - ]
Positive (Sei) - healing magic
[Positive Attribute Area Ability Score Penalty ]
Healing based Selective Energy (harms one type, heals another)
Life Force/Animating Force - Pure HP
[Regenerate - ] Heals undead and living
[Life Essence ] Measures (Hp)
Uncategorized
Sun (Effectively Radiant Damage from 4E?)
[Shining Burst - ] Lower karma more damage to undead and evil. Positive karma lowers damage
[Sunlight ] Damages Undead AND Blinds
["Solar Explosion "] Unavoidable boss skill with fire properties
[Sunlight Vampire Movement penalty]
Light?
[Light Attack Weakness IV]
God of Light in Slaine is also God of Life (Sun light Scripture)
[Flash - ] Tempoarily blinds
Darkness?
[Jet Black Scripture - ] Written with or Black/Darkness.
God of Death is God of Darkness
[Dark Hole ]
Non Attribute Darkness exists -
Moon
[Summon Moon Wolf ]
[Veil of Moon ] Considerably lowers magic damage; no physical properties; shines in seven colors
[Moon Sword a skill caused by using four Elements together - ignores land and aerial safe zones?
Time No confirmed spells (but presumably [Time Stop ] or [Frost of Judacca]; Basically stasis related abilities that work on even nonliving creatures or objects(remember Time stop even prevents damage)
[ Time Retrogradation - ] Reverses damage state (hp bar) 3 times a day
[Temporal Stasis - ] Immobilizes but prevents damage on one target
Star hoshi [Primal Star Elemental ]
[Astral Smite - ]
[Saturn's Great Meteor - ] "Earth + Star"
[Mercury Ore - ] "Water + Star" Reduce damage to 1/10
[Venus Torrential Rain - ] "Metal + Star" Acid Rain
[Neptune - ] "Sea King' Star" Cold-like damage and movement debuff
Only Primal Elemental denoted differently (missing a kanji)
[Wish Upon A Star
Is Star a composite of Sun+Moon+Time?
Sun, Moon, and Time Elementals are never described as of yet...
Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth are described as part of a FOUR elemental system
Non-Attribute
([Magic Arrow ] Attributeless
[Explode Mine ]
[True Dark 無闇] Attributeless Dark
[Lesser Protection Energy - ] Decreaes all Attribute damage?
[Drifting Master Mine )?
Force?
[Shockwave ]
[Field of Force - ]
[Force Explosion - ]
[Force Sanctuary -]
Miscellaneous Attributes
Silver (Gin) [Silver Lance - ]
Blood
