acid terrain and dommage

Hello,

I have questions about acid terrain. One square became acid terrain under me and I can't move. At the beginning of the next turn, I took 3 damage and loosed my armor but my armor don't try to prevent the damages.

The acid blast's text is : Target square becomes Acid Terrain (Stop. At the start of each round, occupant takes 3 Acid damage and discards all armor cards).

My question is can armor prevent the damage from acid terrain? or is it a bug ?

friendly,
Platouf.

 

Hello,

Thank you for your answer but it is not exactly my question. I know that I loose my armor but before : Do acid be prevent by armor as normal attack or can't be prevent by armor as poison ?

friendly,
Platouf.

 

Acid can be stopped by armor as a type but most acid spells discard either all or a armor before doing damage i hope this information helps.

 

Hmm, maybe the text should be changed from
Stop. At the start of each round, occupant takes 3 Acid damage and discards all armor cards.
to
Stop. At the start of each round, occupant discards all armor cards and then takes 3 Acid damage.

The second phrasing makes it more obvious the armor will be gone before the damage. The first one can be interpreted either way.

 

As sort-of discussed elsewhere, the phrase "immediately discard" is useful. They might put the word "immediately" here to make it clear.

However, by the nature of "acid," I could imagine that the lack of "immediately" here makes sense: the acid is eating through the armor, so its very destruction could be protecting you. They could consider changing the programming to give you one last roll from the Armor.

 

I agree with zalminen " Stop. At the start of each round, occupant discards all armor cards and then takes 3 Acid damage." is more clear

 

I think this falls under a general category of instances where order of operations matters but is not clearly explained (even if clearly defined).