preventing damage

If a single strike is composed of normal and aggravated damage, can the defender choose which damage to prevent, or is it in a certain order?

Boon Sian Chang wrote: > > If a single strike is composed of normal and aggravated damage, can the defender > choose which damage to prevent, or is it in a certain order? Nope. You always prevent the normal damage first, thus maximising the chances of burning the vampire. James B. Catechism is good.

Boon Sian Chang wrote: > > If a single strike is composed of normal and aggravated damage, can the defender > choose which damage to prevent, or is it in a certain order? The vampire playing the damage prevention effect chooses which damage to prevent. He can choose to prevent the aggravated damage before dealing with the normal damage, if he likes. When applying the damage (burning blood to heal or burning blood to prevent destruction), the normal must be dealt with first. -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@regency.wizards.com) Official VtES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. (*) - Subject to review by Rules Team

James B. Floate wrote: <stuff about agg and normal damage prevention> > Nope. You always prevent the normal damage first, thus maximising the > chances of burning the vampire. > James B. erm, wrong! read LSJ's post..... you can prevent any damage you want, but once you've finished preventing damage, normal damage is RESOLVED first, thus maximising the chances of burning a vampire.... salem....

In article <3380B0...@tpgi.com.au>, "James B. Floate" <jfl...@tpgi.com.au> writes >Boon Sian Chang wrote: >> >> If a single strike is composed of normal and aggravated damage, can the >defender >> choose which damage to prevent, or is it in a certain order? > >Nope. You always prevent the normal damage first, thus maximising the >chances of burning the vampire. > James B. > >Catechism is good. I understood it, though LSJ has posted to the contrary, that you always prevented the aggro damage first. However, when applying the damage you apply the normal damage first and then the aggro so that you maximise burning a vampire (ie so that the vampire would be in torpor when all the normal damage is done but still has some aggro damage left thus burning them). -- James Coupe