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The Damage Pipeline
Types of Damage
The “Takes Damage” Pipeline
Types of Damage.
- There are 4 types of damage in Sanctum.
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Damage Type
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Effect
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hand
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Swordsmen, and most monsters that use natural bodily weapons, deal this
kind of damage.
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missile
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Archers, and some monsters that use bows or otherwise launch long-range
attacks, deal this kind of damage.
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“ignores armor”
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This damage does not reduce, and is not reduced by, the opponent's armor.
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“magical”
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This damage has the “ignores armor” effect, and furthermore,
it is not blocked by any immunities or spells. For example, a spell
that protects against missile damage doesn't protect against magical
missile damage.
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- Physical damage types. Hand and missile damage are mutually exclusive.
A single attack type can't deal both kinds of damage.
- Magical damage can occur by itself. Most damage-dealing spells
and spell effects deal magical damage.
- Magical damage can also be a modifier of hand or missile damage, resulting
in magical hand or magical missile damage.
The “Takes Damage” Pipeline. This
pipeline is applied whenever a minion takes damage from any source. It
is called with the following parameters.
- Damage type and amount.
- Attacker: The attacker to “blame” for the damage, if any.
Combat damage always has an attacker.
Damage from spells usually has no attacker.
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Step
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Explanation
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D1
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“Before armor”
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- All “before checking armor”
effects happen.
- If there is an attacker, all “is hit
by” or “is hit in combat” effects happen.
- If the damage “ignores armor” or is “magical”,
skip to D3.
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D2
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Armor soak
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- The remaining damage and this minion's remaining current armor
reduce each other, 1 point for 1 point, until either quantity reaches
0. (This is called soaking
off.)
- If the damage is reduced to 0, halt with result = bounced.
- Otherwise, this minion's current armor must have been reduced to 0.
Proceed to D3.
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D3
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“After armor”
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- Remaining damage is capped to this minion's current HP. (If
the damage was higher, it is lowered to be equal.)
- All “after checking armor”
effects happen.
- If this cancels the damage, halt with result = bounced.
- If this minion died, halt with result = killed.
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D4
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Apply damage
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- This minion's current HP is reduced by the remaining damage.
- If this minion is still alive and still has positive HP, halt
with result = damaged.
- Otherwise, halt with result = killed.
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v2.10.00 Last updated 2005/08/05
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