Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen

[Elves]

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Right so would that mean that only damage otherwise tied to another creature attacking the crusader is able to be delayed in steely resolve?

No AoE, no burning auras, no falling damage, no self-inflicted stuff?

Trying to pin this down before my next session I'd hate to be playing dishonestly

Yeah, not unless the effect either involves an attack roll or, like a gaze attack, "counts as an attack action". It would still apply against attacks you make against yourself.

The fact that a gaze attack is used as an example of an effect that doesn't work specifically because it doesn't deal damage proves that it would work if it did deal damage. So, yes, it works on AoEs.

It would apply against a gaze attack that dealt damage, but it doesn't follow that it would therefore apply against an AOE spell that isn't classified as an attack.

If steely resolve applied against all damage, it would say so instead of "when you're attacked". There's a RAW game definition of attack. When invisibility creates an alternative definition, it says so explicitly. Crusader doesn't so RAW is to use the glossary definition.