Pierce (PSR Supplement)

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Pierce is a damage type. It's often called “piercing” damage.

Pierce, bash, and slash are are together sometimes called “strike damage.”

Stabbing and impaling forces like arrows, spears, daggers, fangs, spikes, thorns, and glass shards cause pierce damage.
Sources of pierce damage sometimes render a creature Gashed.
Sometimes, creatures with an AC of 20 or higher are Exposed to certain sources of pierce damage, such as from morningstar or firearm attacks.

Creatures

Creatures and objects that repel physical strikes often have resistance to strike damage, while incorporeal beings like specters are immune.
Skeletons are infamously vulnerable to bash damage, and they just as often resist pierce and slash damage.
More gelatinous oozes are often vulnerable to pierce damage, but resist bash damage.