Bash (PSR Supplement)

**PSR** is an alternate ruleset that is compatible with most 5e content.
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Bash is a damage type. It's also known as “bludgeoning.”

Bash, pierce, and slash are are together sometimes called “strike damage.”

Bash damage includes blunt forces like hammers, fists, constriction, and falling from great heights.
Known for knocking creatures and objects around, leaving bruises, and potentially fracturing bone and stone. Most often comes from harmful contact with solid objects.
Falling causes bash damage. Other effects associated with this condition include being Shoved and knocked Prone.
Crashing or capsizing vehicles suffer bash damage.

Creatures

Certain religious orders are forbidden from shedding blood, and thus rely on bruising bash weapons like maces over slash or pierce weapons.
Creatures and objects that repel physical strikes often have resistance to strike damage, and incorporeal beings are immune to all three.
Skeletons are infamously vulnerable to bash damage, though they just as often resist pierce and slash damage.
More gelatinous oozes typically resist bash damage, but are vulnerable to pierce damage.
Creatures made of crystal, glass, or ice are often either vulnerable to bash damage, or at least lack resistance to bash while having resistance to pierce and slash.