Resistance (ri-zis-tuhns)

Resistance Explained

In DnD 5e there are plenty of ways to come across resistance in the game. Generally, it comes from a character’s race or from magic, sometimes the class as well, at least where player characters are concerned. You’ll also see it a lot as a DM in a creature’s stat block.
Resistance means that the creature/character that has resistance to a specific damage type takes half damage from that specific damage type. So if a creature was resistant to cold damage, and took 20 cold damage from a spell (or any other source of cold damage) the creature would actually only take 10 cold damage.

Wrap up

A very short but sweet post on this mechanic within DnD 5e. Like most of 5e’s systems its very simple and easy to understand and apply when you know what it does without having to reference the books every time it comes up. So hopefully this post has helped. Thanks for taking the time to have a read through this post and until next time, may your day be a critical success!
TheGM

Source:  The GM Says https://thegmsays.com/dnd-5e-damage-resistance-explained/