saving throws

In D&D there are different types of saving throw. They are "passive" in the sense that every time you are attacked by a certain category of thing, you get to roll to either avoid damage, avoid the effect, take half-damage or whatever.

So let's say you have a Fire saving throw of 15. Fire saving throw is defined as the number you have to roll to take half damage.

Some guy hits you with a fireball
You roll a 20 sided dice
If you roll 15 or higher you save and take half-damage.

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Thanks for the quick reply.

So in the character classes 1 file which is provided as a link in the project specification, a table is displayed beneath each of the classes.

In this table there are 3 columns related to saving throws. The Fort Save, Ref Save and the Will save. There are different values for each of the levels 1 - 20.

Could you please explain what these values mean?

What does the +1, +2, +3 mean?

Fire Saving Throw? Thats like, second edition!

Saving throws are categorized into 3 categories, Fortitude (Fort), Reflex (Ref), and Will (Will) saves.
In the character file, you might have values something like this:

Level: F /R /W    1  +1/+1/+1    2  +2/+2/+2    3  +3/+3/+3    4  +4/+4/+4    5  +5/+5/+5    6  +6/+6/+6

This means, at level 1, you gain a +1 bonus to your Fortitude, Reflex and Will saves.

Every time you make a saving throw (Such as being attacked with a fireball, pushed off a cliff and other such things), you need to make a saving throw. Each action has a Difficulty Class (DC) assigned to it, which you must equal or exceed with your saving throw. A fireball would require you to make a reflex saving throw (To show you dodging behind your sheild or something) with DC 15. You would roll a d20, or a 20 sided die, and then add your bonus, which at level 1, would be +1. If the 20 sided die came up with 10, you would add 1 to it, because of your bonus at level 1, and come up with a total of 11, which, unfortunatly, is not enough to save against the fireball.

If you were level 6, however, and made the same saving throw, you would have 16 (10 on the die roll, +6 bonus), and thus 'save' against the fireball, and take half damage.

All the other saving bonuses and throws work in the same way, though the type (Fortitude / Reflex / Will) may change due to the circumstances - seeing if you can dodge a fireball and if you can withstand poison would be completely different saves (reflex and fortitude, respectivly).

If a player uses a saving throw, he can still attack and move on that turn.

So are the values for each of the saving throws generated once.

( At the beginning when creating the character or when character advances to the next level).

Or are they generated each time during battle i.e. when character is poisoned then generate values randomly each turn to determine if the character is hurt by the poison. (Is this right?)

Thanks.

They're bonuses, identical in many ways to the attack bonus, skill rank, armor class... Every attack you make, the attack bonus is the same (until you gain levels or change weapons) even if the dice roll it's modifying is different. Similarly, the saving throw (bonus) is the same (until you gain levels, or equip some item that changes it) even if the dice roll it's modifying is different.