Damage Types

Resistance & Susceptibility Descriptors:
insignificantly     partially       quite               outstandingly
faintly             kind of         substantially       extraordinarily
hardly              somewhat        very                completely
barely              moderately      exceedingly
scarcely            reasonably      exceptionally
slightly            rather          extremely

The following damage types are relatively common in our realm:
air             chopping        fire            pure divine
biological      cold            mental          slicing
blasting        cursed          piercing        water
blunt           earth           poison          whipping
caustic         electric        pure arcane

These damage types may occasionally be encountered, but they are more rare:
leeching        pressure        stasis
mind control    sonic

These types are hardly (if ever) used.  At some point in the future some
of them may be repurposed for some new type of damage.
antimagic       natural         portal
falling         polymorph       radiant

Damage type field guide

Type	Spells	Weapons	Resistant Races	Vulnerable Races	Resistant Items	Vulnerable Items
air	Cyclone	Throwing Ax, "Tornado"	Fire Elemental (barely) Air Elemental (barely)	Water Elemental (barely) Earth Elemental (barely)
biological	Plague??		Troglodyte (faintly) Golem (hardly)
blasting	Blast Bolt Detonate Torch
caustic	Acid Blast Acid Rain
chopping				Ent (faintly)
cold	Chill Touch Icestrike		Ent (faintly)	Firedrake (faintly) Lizardmen (faintly) Tuataur (faintly) Fire Elemental (barely)
cursed	Flash Torment (partial)		Demonseed (faintly) Demon (hardly) Hobgoblin (faintly)		Shield Of Heroes (faintly)	Helm Of Cherubims (faintly)
earth	Earthbind Earthquake Magma Blast (partial)		Deep Gnome (faintly) Duergar (faintly) Dwarf (faintly) Gargoyle (hardly) Gnome (faintly) Water Elemental (barely) Earth Elemental (barely)	Fire Elemental (barely) Air Elemental (barely)	Mystical Desert Stone (insign)	Antharian Signet Ring (insign) Eye Of The Beholder (faintly) Pair Of Steel Bracers (faintly) Robe Of Greatness (faintly) Smoldering Crown Of Dying Fire (faintly)
electric	Call Lightning Shocking Grasp Lightning Bolt Chain Lightning Torment (partial)		Gargoyle (faintly) Fire Elemental (barely)	Merfolk (hardly) Water Elemental (barely)
fire	Burning Hands Fireball Firestorm Flamestrike Magma Blast (partial) Pillar Of Flame		Firedrake (faintly) Demonseed (faintly) Demon (hardly) Fire Elemental (barely) Earth Elemental (barely)	Ent (faintly) Water Elemental (barely) Air Elemental (barely)	Dark Flaming Blade (insign) Impure Diamond Shield (insign)	Ice Ring (insign)
leeching	Energy Drain Death Field Leech Vampire Touch	Dark Flaming Blade
mental	Psychic Drain Psisting Mindlash Brainstorm Psionic Blast Ultrablast Rupture		Duergar (faintly) Lizardmen (faintly) High Elf (faintly) Tuataur (hardly)		Single Silver Archer's Gauntlet (insign) Silver Astral Gauntlets (insign)
mind control
poison			Duergar (faintly) Dwarf (faintly) Ent (faintly) Golem (hardly) Griffon (faintly)		Durrite Greataxe (insign)
pressure			Water Elemental (barely)
pure arcane	Magic Missile Desiccate Disintegrate		Deep Gnome (faintly) Duergar (faintly) Dwarf (faintly) Gnome (faintly) Sprite (hardly)	Golem (hardly) Elemental (faintly)	Sceptre Of Growing Roots (insign)
pure divine	Cause Light Cause Serious Cause Critical Dispel Evil Turn Undead Turn Demon Harm	Holy Sword Of Kra	Duergar (faintly) Dwarf (faintly)	Demonseed (faintly) Demon (hardly)		Carved Bone Necklace (insign) Dark Dwarven Brand (faintly)
radiant			Lizardmen	all No-Sun races (faintly)	Orb Of Amorphous Essence (insign)
sonic
stasis	Struggling in Web??		Ent (faintly)	Goblin (faintly) Kobold (faintly)
water			Merfolk (barely) Water Elemental (barely) Air Elemental (barely)	Fire Elemental (barely) Earth Elemental (barely)		Carburized Steel Plate Armor (hardly) Chained Steel Collar (faintly) Flaming Pants (hardly)

A field guide to exotic damage types

Pure Arcane: Disintegrate, desiccate, and magic missile do this.
Pure Divine: Cause X, harm, white light, white fire
Blasting:    Detonate, blast bolt, and certain melee weapons
Leeching:    Energy drain, death field, leech, and vampire touch do this
             (No idea of damage resistance also affects hps/exp leeched)
Cursed:      Torment, brimstone, and flash do this damage type, as do demons.
Mental:      All psi/mnd spells except mindwipe and shatterspell do this.
Mind Control: Mindwipe and shatterspell.
Pressure:    Maelstrom does this.
Radiant:     Sunlight or other radiation (N.B. all no-sun races are vulnerable)
             No spells or effects are known to do this (yet)

Damage dealt

Some races will also deal damage of some of these types, based on what their resistances are. Right now these appear to be only evolutionary races: firedrakes, imps, and elemental giants. This will show up in 'score'.

For a low hero firedrake:
Attacks from your dominant hand are augmented with fire damage.
Attacks from your offhand are augmented with fire damage.

For a dust imp:
Attacks from your dominant hand are augmented with earth damage.
Attacks from your offhand are augmented with earth damage.

List of resistances by race

A table follows, enumerating resistances and vulnerabilities for normal races as they are currently assigned. There are no descriptors (faintly, hardly, extremely, etc.) listed because they are just preliminary amounts.

Race	Resistances	Vulnerabilities
Centaur	none	none
Deep Gnome	pure arcane earth	radiant
Demonseed	fire cursed	radiant pure divine
Draconian	none	none
Dragon	none	none
Drow	none	radiant
Duergar	poison pure mental pure arcane pure divine earth	radiant
Dwarf	poison pure arcane pure divine earth	none
Elf	none	none
Ent	cold stasis poison	fire chopping
Gargoyle	electric earth	radiant
Giant	none	none
Gnome	pure arcane earth	none
Goblin	none	stasis
Golem	biological poison	pure arcane
Griffon	poison	none
Halfling	none	none
Half-Elf	none	none
Half-Orc	none	none
Harpy	none	none
High Elf	pure mental	none
Hobgoblin	cursed	none
Human	none	none
Kobold	none	stasis
Kzinti	none	none
Lizardman	radiant pure mental	cold
Minotaur	none	none
Miraar	none (or as cloned)	none (or as cloned)
Ogre	none	none
Orc	none	none
Sprite	pure arcane	none
Troglodyte	biological	none
Troll	none	radiant
Tuatar	pure mental	cold

Evolutionary Races

Race	Evolution	Resistances	Vulnerabilities
Imp	Lesser Imp	none	radiant
Imp	Minor Imp	none	radiant
Imp	Dust Imp	fire earth	radiant air water
Imp	Wave Imp	earth water	fire air
Imp	Vapor Imp	air water	fire earth
Imp	Pyro Imp	electric fire air	cold earth water
Imp	Lesser Elemental	none	none
Imp	Earth Elemental	?	?
Imp	Water Elemental	?	?
Imp	Air Elemental	?	?
Imp	Fire Elemental	?	?
Imp	Pain Elemental	none	none
Firedrake	1	fire	cold
Firedrake	2	fire	cold
Firedrake	3 (Hero)	fire	cold
Firedrake	4	fire	cold
Firedrake	5	?	?
Firedrake	6	?	?
Firedrake	7 (Lord)	?	?
Firedrake	8	?	?
Firedrake	9	?	?