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digiman619
2016-02-20, 07:27 PM
OK, this might be a dumb question, but is there a TN equivalent of holy/unholy/axiomatic/anarchic, and is there a sonic version of corrosive/fire/frost/shock?

inuyasha
2016-02-20, 10:12 PM
OK, this might be a dumb question, but is there a TN equivalent of holy/unholy/axiomatic/anarchic, and is there a sonic version of corrosive/fire/frost/shock?

As far as I know there's no TN alignment enhancement because that would affect more targets than any of the more specific ones, and as far as sonic goes, there's the thundering enhancement but beyond that there isn't because sonic is kind of a special energy type, since very few things have resistance to it, it doesn't correspond to an element, etc.

Morcleon
2016-02-20, 10:28 PM
OK, this might be a dumb question, but is there a TN equivalent of holy/unholy/axiomatic/anarchic, and is there a sonic version of corrosive/fire/frost/shock?

There's a sonic version of the energy damage enchantments that's just called "Sonic" (and a crit version called "Sonic Burst"). It's the exact same except it's 1d4 of sonic damage.

I don't believe there's a TN version of the alignment ones though.

T.G. Oskar
2016-02-21, 01:12 AM
As others have mentioned - there's no equivalent for Holy/Unholy/Anarchic/Axiomatic in regards to the TN alignment, because it would affect a lot of creatures (though, by default, it'd affect extreme alignments - CE, CG, LE, LG).

There is a sonic equivalent of "elemental" weapon enhancements in 3.5 - that'd be the Screaming weapon enhancement (1d4 sonic damage on hit), and its more advanced version Screaming Burst (1d4 sonic damage on hit, 1d8/2d8/3d8 extra sonic damage on a crit). There's no such equivalent in PF other than Sonic Boom (+3, ranged weapons & firearms only, deal 1d6 damage to target and any creature adjacent to the line or cone between the target and you), which is sorta a boosted Thundering effect. There IS also Thundering on both systems, which only works on a crit.