White dragons are associated with cold damage. White Dragon’s like every other dragon has the ability to breathe out their associated damage. Of course, we have direct damage area of effect cold damage in the form of a dragon’s breath attack. When a section of the wall is broken, it leaves behind magically cold air, which when walked through the creature must make a Con saving throw, on a fail they take 5d6 cold damage. If summoned on top of a creature, they must make a Dex saving throw and on a fail, they take 10d6 cold damage. The Ice Devil can also summon a wall of ice which can be 30-foot-long, 10-foot-high, and 1-foot-thick. Be it biting, clawing, or using its tail to smash into creatures, it adds 3d6 cold damage to all those attacks. Everything it can do will also inflict cold damage. It is a large humanoid bug creature that is infused with the element of cold. The Ice Devil is a denizen of the nine hells in DnD. In 5e there are a bunch of creatures that can inflict cold damage, again like always, I’ve tried to pick examples that show off the different ways it can be inflicted. Although I would also make a case for cold damage to be inflicted if, say for instance a creature suddenly fell into a frozen lake.ĭue to how often it shows up there are a bunch of ways to inflict it, there are direct damage methods, AoE (Area of Effect) and then there are indirect methods of causing it.
Although it tends to be when something causes a sudden drop, more like being flash-frozen as opposed to it just being extremely cold.
In simple terms, cold damage comes from sources of extremely low temperatures. There is a fair amount of cold damage in 5e, from my own games, and having looked through the books it seems like it’s probably up there with Fire Damage in terms of how often it can show up. Let’s dive right into what cold damage is. We also mentioned sources of the different types of damage, be it either from spells or from creatures. In our previous post, DnD 5e Damage Types Explained, we discussed the different types of damage that show up in a typical D&D world. First, we’ll look at some examples of creatures and spells that can inflict cold damage, then we’ll go over ways to describe it. What’s up folks! In today’s post, DnD 5e Cold Damage Explained, we’re going to go over how Cold damage can show up in your games.